Tutorials

Graduate Research Tutorial

This tutorial assumes that graduate students already have a research topic. It covers a variety of topics, including:

• How to find books and articles related to the topic
• How to organize findings and take notes
• How to cite and avoid plagiarism
• How to write a literature review (required for many graduate programs)

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APA Tutorial for Undergraduate Students

This tutorial explains the fundamentals of APA citation style, such as:

• Creating reference citations
• Creating in-text citations
• Formatting APA style papers

It offers an optional 10-question quiz to check student knowledge.

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What Every Graduate Student Should Know about UNC Libraries

This tutorial outlines 15 services at University Libraries that are important for graduate students. When you add the tutorial to Canvas, you can customize it to highlight the services that are most important for your students.

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AOER 101: The Basics of Open Educational Resources & Affordable Course Materials

Many educators are moving toward the use of low-cost and cost-free course materials. This introductory tutorial covers:

• Identifying these types of materials
• Best practices for evaluating materials
• Licensing and attribution
• Distributing materials to students

This module is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International unless otherwise noted. Please reuse or adapt any portion of this module.

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You can also take this module as a self-paced course:

AOER 101 Self-Paced