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McDougall, D., Ornelles, C., & Rao, K. (2015). A primer on the pathway to scholarly writing: Helping nascent writers to unlearn conditioned habits. College Student Journal, 49(2), 262–270. 

• Read this article to learn about eight common patterns of nascent (i.e., emerging) writers when they attempt to navigate the pathway to scholarly writing.

• Academic Writer is APA's authoritative solution offering you a complete digital environment for teaching, learning, and writing academic papers. If you are new to Academic Writer, there is a helpful orientation titled, Getting Started With Academic Writer, that will help you learn how to navigate and use the site.

Academic Writer. (n.d.) How to avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

• This tutorial on how to avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism helps you understand that plagiarism is the act of presenting the words, ideas, or images of another as your own. It violates ethical standards of accuracy, honesty, and truthfulness in scholarship. Also covered in this tutorial is self-plagiarism, the act of presenting your own previously published work as original. It misleads readers and falsely inflates the number of publications on a topic.

National University Library Tutorial. (n.d.). Identify scholarly vs popular articles.

National University Library Tutorial. (n.d.). ChatGPT & artificial intelligence in academics.

• Watch this 5:05 minute video to learn more about generative AI tools, what they are, how they work, and what that means for you in your research and scholarly writing endeavors.

National University Academic Success Center Tutorial. (n.d.). Using Generative AI (Chat GPT and others).

• Generative AI includes programs such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, Perplexity AI, and more. It is your responsibility to consult your course syllabus, course template, or instructor before making use of such tools. NOTE: Misuse of AI in courses constitutes a breach of academic integrity as defined by the Student Code of Conduct. 

National University Academic Success Center Tutorial. (n.d.). International Center for Academic Integrity.

• National University is a proud member of the International Center for Academic Integrity. According to the International Center for Academic Integrity (2021), six fundamental values define academic integrity. This tutorial presents these six fundamental values.

Modern Librarian Memoirs. (2017, November 2). What is information literacy?   [Video]. YouTube.

• Watch this 5:36 minute video to better understand what information literacy is in light of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education and explains how these concepts apply in the real world, beyond the classroom.  

 

Adobe for Education. (2020, October 15). What is digital literacy? | Cultivating digital literacy.   [Video]. YouTube.

• In this 5:25 minute video, you'll learn how digital literacy is not just a skill in its own right, but also an amplification of other important skills and literacies students need to succeed in higher education and the workplace. This video was created to support the free 'Cultivating Digital Literacy' course on the Adobe Education Exchange. This course aims to help educators cultivate digital literacy in their campus, course or class. 

McKee, K.L., (2019, March 30). Writing Is Thinking    [Video]. YouTube.

• Watch this 4:48 minute video to understand how the act of writing can help you work through a problem and teach you to think clearly. And clearer thinking leads to better writing.  

DeVries, T. (2020, May 25). Writing is thinking on paper. Tyler DeVries.   

• According to this bloggist, “Improving your writing also improves the clarity of your thinking and the strength of your ideas.” Read the entire blog to find out why!

Oatley, K., & Djikic, M. (2008). Writing as thinking. Review of General Psychology, 12   (1), 9-27. https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.12.1.9. 

• Writing is analyzed as thinking that uses paper or other media to externalize and manipulate symbolic expressions. Mental operations of natural language can occur somewhat independently, and they communicate well with language that has been written, but for skilled writing these operations need elaborate installation in the mind. We explore four methods to see how expert writers externalize thoughts and interact with them: laboratory comparisons of novices and experts, interviews with accomplished writers (mostly of prose fiction), biographical analysis of Jane Austen's development as a writer, and consideration of Gustave Flaubert's notes and drafts. Writers can use paper to extend their thinking, and to create frameworks of cues that enable readers of a story to construct mental models that they may enter empathetically. 

Holly S. Atkins, & Lin Carver. (2022). Writing is thinking : Strategies for all content areas. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 

• Chapter 1: Writing-to-Learn  and Chapter authors: Lin Carver and Lauren Pantoja – pp. 1-15. In the instruction and learning process, the role writing plays has often been overlooked. Writing is thinking! It is a tool for learning in all content areas. The ever-growing body of brain research supports that learning to write transitions into writing to learn as students progress through upper elementary, middle, high school, and college. Writing is much more than the ability to craft an analytical essay. Writing has the potential to engage students in critical thinking and critical reflection as historians, mathematicians, scientists, or experts in any content area. Writing is Thinking explores methods and activities to effectively incorporate writing to help learners successfully master, analyze, apply, and express content knowledge.

The Learning Portal. (2024, October 1). Information literacy and indigenous ways of knowing.   [Video]. YouTube.

• Watch this 3:25 minute video to learn about a relatively new but growing area of inquiry – the relationship between information literacy and indigenous ways of knowing. 

Association of College and Research Libraries. (2024, October 1). The ACRL framework.   [Video] YouTube.

• Watch this 4:40 minute video to learn more about the six components of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) framework for Information Literacy. 

APA Style 7th Edition. (2021, November 15). 7th Edition Avoiding Plagiarism Guide.

• Use this handy guide to avoid plagiarism.

Almazon, E. P. (Academic), & SAGE Publications Ltd. (Publisher). (2017). An introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics   [Video file]. 

• As a consumer of research, it is important for you to understand the two types of statistics used in social sciences research – inferential and description – and how they differ. Watch this 4:41 minute video to gain this important understanding that you will apply when you review research studies in the scholarly literature. 

Salkind, N. (Academics). (2013). Statistics in everyday life   [Video]. Sage Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781506358376 

• Watch this 5:27 minute video to learn how statistics are applied in every day life. 

 

SAGE Research Methods. (2024, November 18). Methods map: Research design.

• Explore the various research designs that support the three research methodologies. You might start with frequently used research designs in educational research: Applied research, Case Study research, Survey research, Secondary data analysis, and Phenomenology research designs. 

National University Library. (2024, November 18).  Understanding research: Evaluate sources – The SIFT Method.

• Today's digital environment is full of information, but it isn't all relevant or accurate. Mike Caulfield from Washington State University has created four moves to help you evaluate sources. This method is called the SIFT method - stop, investigate, find, and trace. Review this page and the linked resources to find out more about the SIFT method. 

National University Library. (2024, October 30). Research methodology and design.  

• This guide features NU Library resources for studying and planning research methodology and design.

Ponce, O.A. (2021). From research applied to practice to research embedded in practice. In O. A. Ponce, J. G. Galan, N.  Pagán-Maldonado, & A. L. C. Encarnación (Eds.) Introduction to the philosophy of educational research   (pp. 109-115). River Publishers. DOI: 10.1201/9781003338697-1 

• Chapter Eight discusses the arguments about the need for a new model of educational research.

Perry, J. F. L., & Nichols, J. D. (2014). Understanding research in education: Becoming a discerning consumer. Taylor & Francis Group.  

• Read Chapter One titled, “Understanding the Nature of Research” (pp. 3-19). This chapter attempts to lay a foundation in building a framework for understanding a typical research study.

Mertler, C. (2018). Educational research, history of. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation (Vol. 4, pp. 570-573). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781506326139  

• This chapter highlights major events in the field of educational research, primarily in the United States, to provide a summary of its progression over the nearly two centuries since formalized data collection and dissemination first began. It is not meant to represent an exhaustive history of educational research but rather provides a sense of the nature of educational research as it evolved over time.

Ponce, O.A. (2021). Educational research: Theory and practice In O. A. Ponce, J. G. Galan, N.  Pagán-Maldonado, & A. L. C. Encarnación (Eds.) Introduction to the philosophy of educational research   (pp. 1-19). River Publishers. DOI: 10.1201/9781003338697-1  

• Chapter One examines educational research as an academic discipline and field of work and provides context for the discussion of the events that define the methodological evolution of educational research from its beginning to the time of this book’s publication.

Ponce, O.A. (2021). Science-based research and evidence-based decision-making. In O. A. Ponce, J. G. Galan, N.  Pagán-Maldonado, & A. L. C. Encarnación (Eds.) Introduction to the philosophy of educational research   (pp. 69-99). River Publishers. DOI: 10.1201/9781003338697-1   

• Chapter Six discusses the political action of imposing a science-based research model to bring about evidence-based professional practice like what occurs in medicine, and delves into the issue of the ineffectiveness of educational research in improving education.

Galan, J.G. (2021). Scientific research and education. In O. A. Ponce, J. G. Galan, N.  Pagán-Maldonado, & A. L. C. Encarnación (Eds.) Introduction to the philosophy of educational research   (pp. 101-108). River Publishers. DOI: 10.1201/9781003338697-1 

• Chapter Seven examines education as an object of scientific research.

Creswell, J. (Academic), & SAGE Publications, Ltd. (Publisher). (2015). Doing qualitative research   [Video file].   

• Watch this 5:25-minute video to learn how digital literacy is not just a skill in its own right, but also an amplification of other important skills and literacies you need to succeed both in higher education and in your professional life.

Creswell, J. (Academic), & Sage Publications Ltd. (Publisher). (2017). Developing mixed methods research   [Video file].   

• Watch this 4:40-minute video to learn more about the Association of College and Research Libraries framework – a framework for information literacy in higher education.

Creswell, J., & Plano Clark, V. (2023). Revisiting mixed methods research designs twenty years later.   

• Read this reflective commentary about mixed methods designs as Creswell and Clark described in 2003 which have continued to evolve to the present day. Their current thinking is situated within the context of the development of mixed methods research, and various changes that have occurred in mixed methods designs over the last 20 years. The chapter also offers challenges to a design approach in mixed methods and future directions for design-thinking.