Selecting a Topic
Starting Your Research
After you have focused your topic and written a thesis statement, you will need to gather information that supports your thesis. The library has a lot of materials that can support your research topic.
- Use books to find in-depth information on your topic.
- You can find music, film, speeches and data files to supplement your research.
Click here to go to the Finding Books tutorial.
- Newspaper articles can be used for researching historical as well as current events.
- Use magazine articles for research on popular culture of any topic of general interest.
- Use journal articles for scholarly information on your topic.
Click here to go to the Finding Articles tutorial.
A Flash movie on the research process can be found here.