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BUS160W: Resources Gathering and Using

library instruction to students of BUS160W.

Source Evaluation and Annotated Bibliography

          - CRAAP: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose/Point of View
          - Scholarly vs. Popular Sources
          - Primary vs. Secondary Sources

annual reports, financial statements, press releases, interviews, speeches, blog entries or tweets vs. industry market reports, articles from journals, newspapers, magazines, trade publications

           - Apply citation rules consistently​

           - Check errors in auto-generated citations

          * APA Style electronic resources (official)

             The Style and Grammar Guidelines page on the APA Style website has resources for learning the new seventh edition style.

          * APA Formatting and Style Guide (7th Edition) from The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Exercise 3

Resources Gathering Storing and Managing Tools

  • Resource gathering tools provided by databases

            - Cite " " undefined
            - Full-text (PDF) download undefined
            - Find it @ CUNY undefined
            - Email undefined

RefWorks - an online citation management, research, writing, and collaboration tool. It can help researchers easily gather, organize, store/share all types of information and to generate citations and bibliographies in APA, MLA, and other formats.

Exercise 4