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HIST 102 - History of the United States Since 1865 - Researching World War II - Gutierrez

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Kathleen Ennis
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Fall 2024 Research Help
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Drop-in Help with Kathleen @ the
East Campus Library

Mondays: 3pm-7pm
Tuesdays: 10am-12pm
Wednesdays: 11am -12pm & 4pm-5pm
Thursdays: 3pm-4pm
Friday, October 4th: 10am-4pm
Friday, November 15th: 10am-4pm
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Appointments with Kathleen
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I'm happy to meet you online or in my office on East Campus. Appointments are, by default, via Zoom. If you prefer to meet in my office, just say so in your appointment request or drop me an email.
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If none of my posted availability works for you, please email me. We will make it work.

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What is Research?

Finding information is easy. Most of us are online every day interacting with information: finding old and new friends on social media, shopping & paying bills, attending classes. downloading driving directions, weather forecasts, song lyrics, recipes, and all the other information that gets us through the day in one piece.

But information retrieval is not research!  Research requires that you find information, of course, but it also demands much more from you. The MLA Handbook defines research in terms of exploring ideasprobing issuessolving problems, or making arguments relating to existing ideas.  Yes, students need information to complete these tasks, but the depth and breadth of information needed moves far beyond  a single source.  Within the research process students also need considerable time to read the information they find, time to reflect on and synthesize new information, apply it to new situations and be cognizant of how new information changes the way we view the world and ourselves in it. 

Research is a process, and that process involves several crucial steps/

 

Overview of research process