Finding, Reading, Evaluating, Citing, and Referencing Research

Read research now using 

• John Krantz's links to journal articles (once there, scroll down to see hundreds of links)
• Science news magazine, a source of short, readable summaries of recent journal articles.
• APA's PsycNet (Although you can find abstracts of articles on the site for free, you will probably have to go through your library or through inter-library loan to get the complete article.)
• National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse (you have to register, but registration is free)
• Google scholar (4-minute video on how to use Google Scholar)

Evaluating what you read

Read APA's guide titled "How to be a wise consumer of psychological research"

The Seven Deadly Sins of Statistical Misinterpretation, and How to Avoid Them

To know what questions to ask as you reread an article, go through the checklist in Appendix C. 

Citing what you read (Don't plagiarize!)

• Advice from APA
• Advice from Purdue's OWL site
• Online plagiarism detectors
  • Review of five free online plagiarism checkers
  • Check plagiarism's
  • Quetext's
  • Plagiarismchecker.co's

• APA's guide
• Purdue OWL's guide
• Citation help from the College of St. Scholastica
• Citation formatting tools (Warning: These tools are not perfect, and, if you input the wrong information, you will get the wrong output)
  • Cite this for me
  • Citation Machine's tool
  • Cite Fast's tool
  • DOI citation tool (great if you have the source's Digital Object Identifier[DOI])
  • Zotero Bib

Referencing what you read

• APA's guide
• Purdue OWL's guide

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