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COE 202: Second Year Seminar: Getting Started

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Getting Started with the Library Website

Tutorial: Understanding Information Sources

As you know through your experiences in navigating the web and exploring social media, we live in a very information-rich society. Information, however, comes in many different forms and is created for many different purposes: for example, a social media post functions differently from a newspaper article. This tutorial will develop your skills in understanding different kinds of information sources.

You will learn:

  • how to distinguish between popular and scholarly sources
  • how to identify primary, secondary, and tertiary sources

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Tutorial: Finding Scholarly and Popular Sources

One of the best ways to get informed about a topic is by exploring and reading different perspectives from a variety of sources. This tutorial will develop your skills in finding different kinds of information sources using UNLV Libraries Quick Search.

You will learn:

  • how to use filters to find popular and scholar sources
  • how to access popular sources through UNLV subscriptions

Click the image below to launch the tutorial!

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