RESEARCH SKILL
Name of students: Id No
Saoud Alseyabi 148802234
Seneca College
ELI804NBB: English Language Institute Level Eight Core
Professor’s Name: Sophia Kim
Date of submission: 14/01/2025
Research Skills
1. Becoming familiar with the library words /5
There are many words you may come across while doing research in a library or on a library
webpage.
Go to h p://bit.ly/3AA4EjB to find definitions for these words. Please paraphrase the definitions.
1. Scholarly journal/ Peer reviewed journal
Scholarly journal: Publish articles written by faculty and researchers or scholars
Peer-reviewed journal: Evaluate the same field in co-workers' professional work
procedure for publication.
2. Primary source
Directly related to accounts of a topic or events.
3. Secondary Source
1. used to describe, summarize, and synthesize primary sources.
4. Periodical
Own a distinctive title. It comprised many journals such as review, poem, and short
story and published at regular intervals.
5. Database
Consist of large electronic information. Related to a particular subject or field. Managed by the
aid of software and DBMS.
2. Using the Seneca library search tool /4
A good place to start your research is on the library website.
Go to h ps://bit.ly/3UFKAmT to answer questions about how to do this.
1. When you search a term on the library search tool, what kind of sources do you get?
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You get different resources including eBooks, articles, and streaming videos. (Seneca
Libraries, n.d.).
2. How do you narrow down the search? What are the different categories you can use to
refine your search?
We can narrow down the search using categories such as availability, content / material
type, publication date, subject, and language. (Seneca Libraries, n.d.).
3. What are the words that indicate that the source is available:
a. At a Seneca library? King campus library, Markham campus library, Newnham
campus library, Seneca York campus library. (Seneca Libraries, n.d.).
b. Online? Available Online at h ps://library.senecapolytechnic.ca/
4. What are the two options you have to save an item for later?
a. Pin to save it to your favorite. (Seneca Libraries, n.d.).
b. Export to email or download. (Seneca Libraries, n.d.).
3. Becoming a pro researcher /7
Typing in key words in the library search tool can yield lots and lots of results or at times, not
enough. There are some ways you can help address these problems.
Go to h ps://bit.ly/4fiXMWY and h ps://bit.ly/3UIC1rf and answer questions below.
1. When doing research, what do these mean:
a) AND: narrow the result. Most of the database AND is implied. Obtain more specific
result.
b) OR: connect 2 or more synonyms. Broad the results.
c) NOT: Ignored unnecessary information and narrow the result
d) *: The database will return the result that include any ending of the words
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e) “” (quotation marks) or () (parentheses): quotation mark is to show what somebody
said or wrote. Bracket: To explain a part of the sentence that is not present,
especially in a direct quotation.
2. What would you type in when you want to search about: the economic experience of
newcomers in Canada but you don’t want results about international students or
refugees? Demonstrate how you would use the terms/symbols above in this search.
Answer: I would search Google Canada's new migrant's economic experience ‘not
international student and refugees’
4. Evaluating your sources /5
When you do research for your assignments, it is important to find good, credible sources. You
can do this by using the CRAAP Method.
Go to https://library.senecapolytechnic.ca/libraryresearch/evaluate to answer questions about this
method.
1. What does CRAAP stand for?
Currency: how up to date is the information?
Relevance: how the source is relate to the topic?
Authority: Who is the author?
Accuracy: how the information are correct and reliable?
Purpose: why was the information created, and is it biased? (Seneca Libraries, n.d.).
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References
Seneca Libraries. (n.d.). Library research skills. Seneca Polytechnic. Retrieved from
https://library.senecapolytechnic.ca
