Columbus State Writing Center Repository: Research & Citations

Updates to the Columbus State Library website and the database platform used for conducting research are in progress. We will do our best to collaborate with the libraries to keep you updated here on these changes. In the meantime, below are links to guidance for research that are up to date and sources for some of the changes happening.

• Columbus State Library
• Introduction to Library Services
• The Research Process
• Creating a Research Question
• Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
• Source Types
• You Can't Just Google
• Introduction to Google Advanced Search
• Research Guides Help
• Evaluating Sources Using CRAAP
• Academic Search Complete (New Interface)
• Introduction to the New EBSCO Discovery Service
• Basic Search on the New EBSCO User Interfaces
• Advance Searching on the New EBSCO User Interfaces
• Citing Articles on the New EBSCO User Interfaces

Purdue Online Writing Lab provides formatting instructions, videos, and exercises on how to cite sources in MLA, APA, and Chicago.

The APA Style site provides up-to-date guidance on APA style for formatting, citations, and even mechanics and grammar.

The MLA Style Center's Ask the MLA page provides answers for a variety of common and uncommon questions about MLA style citations and formatting.

Research

• Online Research: Tips for Effective Search Strategies
• Paper and Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9
• Research Synthesis
• Research Tips: Finding Academic Research Online

Evaluating Sources

• Real News vs. Fake News
• Identifying Misinformation

Citation and Formatting

• MLA Style Essay Format (9th ed.) – Easy Set Up
• Citation and Formatting
• Citation, Quotation, and Paraphrase
• How to Cite a Digital Image in MLA
• The Basic of MLA In-text Citations
• MLA Works Cited: References and Formatting
• APA 7th Edition: The Basics of APA In-text Citations
• APA 7th Edition: Creating APA Reference Entries
• APA 7th Edition: Formatting the APA Reference Page