Brookes Bible College Library: Conducting Research

These short and informative tutorials created by the University Library of UC Santa Cruz will guide you through all the steps in the research process: 

• Identify Your Question 
• Explore Background Information
• Find Your Sources
• Evaluate What You Find
• Use and Cite Your Sources

The website Plagiarism.org is a go-to source for everything you'd ever want to know about plagiarism. "Plagiarism is a common (and often misunderstood) problem that is often the result of a lack of knowledge and skills. The mission of P.org is to support the education community with a comprehensive set of resources to help students write with integrity."

. Skills and Strategies - Understanding Plagiarism in a Digital Age, by Lionel Anderson and Katherine Schulten, New York Times, Oct. 29, 2015, This informative article provides an in-depth analysis and illuminating insight into the Millennials’ way of thinking and behavior with regard to plagiarism, illustrated with many examples.

• The Information Cycle - a short video tutorial (2:35 min) created by Kimbel Library.
• What is a peer-reviewed article? Watch this video tutorial (4:11 min) created by Carnegie Vincent Library to find the answer. 
• How to read scholarly articles - find out with this brief (1:50 min) and informative video tutorial provided by the UIUC Library. Take a look at the infographic that is shown below the video window, too.

The library at the University of Minnesota at Crookston provides a general description of primary, secondary and tertiary sources.

The library at Southeastern Baptist Seminary describes the use of primary, secondary and tertiary sources in research involving the Bible and theology.

Source: The Library at Southeastern Baptist Seminary

Students can purposely or mistakenly commit plagiarism when preparing academic papers. Turnitin, a company dedicated to academic integrity, conducted a worldwide survey to identify the following common ways students plagiarize when preparing academic work.

Clone – Submitting another’s work, word-for-word, as one’s own

CTRL+C – Contains significant portions of text from a single source without alterations

Find-Replace – Changing key words and phrases but retaining the essential content of the source

Remix – Paraphrases from multiple sources, made to fit together

Recycle – Borrows generously from the writer’s previous work without citation

Hybrid – Combines perfectly cited sources with copied passages without citation

Mashup – Mixes copied material from multiple sources

404 Error – Includes citations to non-existent or inaccurate information about sources

Aggregator – Includes proper citation to sources but the paper contains almost no original work

Re-Tweet – Includes proper citation, but relies too closely on the text’s original wording and/or structure