New Student Seminar Research Paper Guide

Step 1: Introduction & assignment calculator

Welcome to the New Student Seminar Research Assignment Guide

Why should you use this guide?

• Get it right the first time! Learn the research process; it will save you time and reduce your stress level!
  
  
• Answer the question "where do I begin?"
  
  
• Manage your time by creating a personal assignment calendar.
  
  
• Know that you're not in this alone. Help is available, find out where.
  
  
• Use this guide again to tackle other papers you will be assigned.
  
  
• Continue to develop skills needed to research and write at the college level and make your life easier!
  
  

The Salve Regina University core curriculum is designed for developing lifelong learners and responsible citizens of the world. The New Student Seminar research assignment allows you to research and reflect on one topic within the greater issues of social justice, the destruction of the environment, economical abuse and the preservation of indigenous cultures. This guide has been developed to help you with the research process.

The Assignment Calculator to the right will allow you to manage your time as you follow each of the steps in the process.

Students who complete this tutorial will be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to recognize and formulate an information need.
  
  
• Demonstrate the ability to efficiently access and utilize various information resources.
  
  
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze information for accuracy, authority and bias.
  
  
• Demonstrate the ability to extract, manage and synthesize information into a personal expression of ideas and values.
  
  
• Demonstrate an understanding that there are legal and ethical issues where the intellectual property of others is concerned.