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Thesis & Capstone Research

Resources for students undertaking a major research project such as a thesis or capstone project.

Using Google Scholar Effectively

If you run a general Google search, most of your results are not going to be scholarly in nature. You'll get websites, blogs, videos, and more, but little of this would be the basis for scholarly research and even less of it has been peer-reviewed. However, did you know that Google has a scholarly search tooled called Google Scholar? The playlist of videos below show you how to use this tool effectively to do scholarly research.