The ideas on these pages are organized to reflect the primary teaching objective of the assignment. We have a number of handouts which will help students with different types of assignments, e.g. writing annotated bibliographies. The links within this document will take you, and your students, to those handouts. Do everything except write it. Focuses on the stages of research and the parts of a paper, rather than on the writing of it.
Professors can provide forms, so students understand how to structure their approach.
Provides a good introduction to how information is organized in libraries. Encourages students to think about the choices they must make as researchers. Focuses on the importance of terminology. A good follow up would be a class discussion with a librarian about search techniques. Find a specified number of sources on a topic and write descriptive or evaluative annotations.