Welcome!
This guide was created for students in the ENGL 100: Intro to College Writing course at SUNY Cobleskill. The tabs at the top of this page will guide you through resources at Van Wagenen Library (both in print and online) that should help you find, evaluate, and cite sources for your research.
Finding Articles
If you're looking only for articles--including scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles--use the dropdown menu beside the main search box to select "Articles."
Enter a few important subject-related keywords in the search box and hit the "Search" button.
You can narrow your results even further on your search results screen. If you're only interested in articles from Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed journals, look for the "Limit To" panel and click the box that says "Scholarly Sources." Your results list will be updated to weed out non-scholarly sources.
Topic Selection
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Picking Your Topic Is Research
This short video from the North Carolina State University Libraries examines the process of selecting a topic for an academic paper and offers tips on how to refine the topic by conducting some preliminary research. Recommended for lower-division students.