RESEARCH

EDUCATION

IN

Sarah Cohn

Reference & Instruction Librarian

The City College of New York, CUNY

January 20, 2024

AGENDA

How do you start your research?

Evaluating information

Keywords & search strategies

Suggested resources

Getting help

TODAY'S

How do you start your research?

When you start a research paper or project, where is your first stop for information?

What makes a source or piece of information "good enough" to use in a paper for class?

INFORMATION

EVALUATING

TERMS

SEARCH

AKA KEYWORDS

what is your main topic?

what are the specifics?

what are different ways to describe your ideas?

How does gender impact the achievement gap in New York City?

Gender

  • Girls
  • Boys
  • Non binary
  • Transgender

Achievement Gap

  • Academic performance
  • Students
  • Teachers

Impact

  • Grades
  • Graduation rates
  • Retention
  • Punishment

New York City

  • United States
  • Urban

Other Related Ideas

  • School policy
  • Private school
  • Public school

STRATEGIES

SEARCH

Full Sentence Searches

How does gender impact the achievement gap in New York City?

use AND to connect terms

achievement gap AND new york AND gender

disparity AND academic performance AND gender AND new york

combining different terms = different results

RESOURCES

SUGGESTED

  • ERIC
    • Education Resources Information Center, sponsored by the US Department of Education.
  • Google Scholar
    • Search for scholarly literature. You will not always be able to access the full text of articles.
  • Google Books
    • Full-text digitized books
  • HathiTrust
    • A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Open Web Resources

Use your public library card to find books and access databases, either from home or from a library location.

 

 

 

 

 

Public Library Resources

  • New York Public Library
  • Brooklyn Public Library
  • Queens Public Library

HELP

GETTING

Sarah Cohn

Reference & Instruction Librarian

scohn@ccny.cuny.edu

SOURCES

CITING YOUR

what is the purpose of citation?

  • Engage in scholarly conversation

  • Relate your own ideas and analysis to existing scholarship

  • Give credit to authors whose ideas you use

  • Allow your reader to find the original article