Research Help

INTD 275: Information Research Strategies is a 1-credit course that will be offered in the second half of fall and spring semesters. The target demographic is upper-level students or those who have completed INTD 105. The course is graded as S/U. This course is taught as an online asynchronous course.

The course is listed in Banner as INTD 275: Information Research Strategies.  Instructor: Brandon K. West.

Consider enrolling in this course if you:

• want to build your confidence for writing research papers
• are interested in developing academic skills are getting ready to complete a project for your major (e.g., senior thesis) and need to brush up on your skills.
• need to earn an additional credit hour; or are withdrawing from a course and need to maintain a certain number of credit hours.

Description of the course:  Information Research Strategies is a one-credit course taught by a faculty librarian that focuses on developing students’ research abilities to hone their “information literacy”—the ability to recognize when information is needed and knowing how to locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for academic research. Offerings of this course will focus on information literacy concepts, which may include developing research questions/topics, accessing information sources, formulating search strategies, analyzing sources critically, utilizing library-specific collections, managing information, publishing scholarly content, or using information ethically. Course work in this class will include readings, viewing multimedia, discussions, and a variety of assignments that emphasize the processes involved in research.

The online Plagiarism Tutorial is a self-enroll Canvas course that teaches students proactive strategies for avoiding plagiarism, which identify different types of plagiarism, paraphrasing, citing information, and more. This tutorial takes about 30 minutes to complete. 

• Plagiarism Tutorial: https://canvas.geneseo.edu/enroll/8CY3XD

The online Library Research Skills Tutorial is a self-enroll Canvas course that provides students with an introduction to the college library’s services and basic research strategies. These strategies include searching the Academic Search Complete Database, locating materials in GLOCAT (the library’s catalog), requesting materials via IDS, and citing sources. This tutorial is designed to supplement the INTD 105 library instruction program, but will benefit any student. This tutorial takes 1.5 to 2 hours to complete.

• Library Research Skills Tutorial: https://canvas.geneseo.edu/enroll/8C4648

Faculty Banner Database: Faculty can check their class rosters to see which students have completed the Plagiarism Tutorial. If there is no date listed, then the student has not completed the tutorial. View the database by visiting: https://go.geneseo.edu/canvas_tutorial_attendance.

Students may check to see if and when they completed the Plagiarism Tutorial by visiting: go.geneseo.edu/canvasTutorial.

Please note it may take several hours after completing the tutorial for it to show up in the database.