Creating Effective Research Assignments Be very clear about your objectives for the assignment . Assume your students have a variety of levels of experience doing research and using the library. Define your terms precisely.
Students take their instructors very literally.
Many of the Library's bibliographic databases come via the Web. Check to make sure the Library has the resources you are assigning your students to use. If you tell your students to use a particular source, that is what they will look for. If you are using a title as an example of a resource they can use, tell them that. Our library may not have sources that you have used in other libraries.