ANSC 300 -Scientific Research Inquiry: Home

This guide was created in Sring 2021 for students in the ANSC 300 course. The tabs above provide guidance and resources for students working on this assignment.

For the Scientific Research Inquiry assignment, students will explore a range of topics including; scientific and technical writing, research design and hypothesis testing, and presenting relevant research to various audiences. (from the ANSC300 syllabus)

• Analyze relevant animal science research in a given topic area.
• Compose scientific research abstracts.
• Reflect upon current literature in a given topic area.
• Design appropriate objectives for a scientific study.
• Adapt research methods to a variety of relevant scientific situations.
• Develop and conduct a professional research presentation.

The search box on the library's main page allows users to search for books, DVDs, videos, academic journals, magazines, newspapers, scholarly articles and more from one search box. If you're trying to access a book or article you already know about, you can enter the title or author's name here. If you're looking to find material about a specific topic, try entering two or three keywords that are likely to appear in discussions of that topic.

What are Keywords?

Keywords are the words you use to search for anything online and they determine how successful your search is. If you're researching the links between poverty and obesity in children, for instance, the most important keywords would be: poverty, obesity, children. Database searches usually work better when you only enter 2-4 essential keywords than when you enter a complete sentence or question.

Here a couple of common problems you may run into and ways to fix them using keywords:

How do I Refine my Search Results?

From your list of results, use the "Refine Your Results" panel to narrow your search by publication date, source type, publisher, language and more.