IFS 2146 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Freshman Seminar

Classes will be held in Strozier (Scholars Commons Instruction Room 0005A) on:

9.11 – Welcome to FSU Libraries

• Introduction To Library Services
• Research Guides
• Using the Library (video tutorials)
• OneSearch/Catalog
• Databases (location)
• ILL & UBorrow

 

9.13 – Intro to Physical Library Spaces

• How to read a call number
• Tour

9.25 – Website Navigation

• Databases and Effective Searching 
• Google/Wikipedia - Guide
• Google Scholar - Guide
• CREDO Reference - Mind Mapping: Expanding your Keyword Options 
• Citation Management: RefWorks/EndNote/Zotero
• Purdue OWL

9.27 – Informed Consumption of Sources 

View Fake News: Part 1

• Internet Source Evaluation and Critical Thinking 

                 

   

• Peer Reviewed Vs. Popular Journals

News and Opinion	General Interest	Scholarly Journals
Time	Atlantic	Criminology
The Nation	Harper's	Social Issues and Policy Review
National Review	Mother Jones	Journal of Marriage and Family
Newsweek	New Yorker	Public Opinion Quarterly
U.S. News	Utne Reader	American Behavioral Scientist

• Multidisciplinary Resources ​
  • Academic Search Complete
  • JSTOR
  • ProQuest Databases​
• Truncation & other tricks

10.2 – Introduction to Subject Specific Literature & Social Science Citations 

Assignment 1 Due

• Social Science Citations: APA
• Web of Science

10.4 –

• ​CQ Researcher: Pro & Con
• Primary vs. Secondary Resources  

• Newspapers

  • Newspapers Research Guide

  • Access World News

  • New York Times

10.16 – Work Day

10.18 – Keyword Brainstorm

10.30 – Diving into Business and STEM Research (guest speaker: Mike Siriwardena) ; Business Resources (guest speakers: Trip Wyckoff)​

• PubMed
• Hoovers
• IBIS World

10.30 – Work Day

• Nexis Uni

11.1 –  Data Literacy & Finding Social Science Data Sources (guest speaker: Dr. Nick Ruhs)

TBA – Citing and Bibliographies

• Citing Sources
• In text
• Quotes
• Figures & Tables
• Purdue OWL

TBA – Polishing a Paper

• Importance of Proof Reading
• Checking citation formatting
• Purdue OWL
• Brief MLA Online Tutorial
• Brief APA Online Tutorial
• Avoiding Plagiarism 
• Paraphrasing
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• Note Taking

​Note: Whatever we do not cover during one session will be covered the next class.

What is the most difficult part about doing research?

Answer here: PollEv.com/fsuresearch