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Overview | What's Included
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Reference Resources
in the Context of IDS179:
Reference resources can play
an important role in the process of human inquiry by helping answer certain
questions that will arise as you engage in ideas, texts, and information
for your class assignments, within your profession, and in other situations
requiring information.
Inquiry begins with basically three processes:
- observation
- engagement with an idea
- critical thinking
In response to one's own understandings and questions,
inquiry then becomes a process of questioning and searching for information,
(1) which is then evaluated and converted into knowledge
useful to the inquirer.
"Inquiry-based activities cause us to revise
our prior understandings and deepen our understanding of the world.
Through inquiry we develop important skills such as careful observation,
reasoning, critical thinking, and the ability to justify or refute our
existing knowledge."(2)
This section will help you to gain an understanding of how to find, select,
and use quiality reference resources effectively to find answers to specific
kinds of questions that will arise in your classes.
What's Included:
- Types of reference resources
- Uses of reference resources
- Selecting the appropriate reference resource
- Where to find reference resources
- Search tools to find and explore reference resources
Goals for this Section:
Upon completion of this section, students will:
- Identify purposes and uses of reference resources
- Become familiar with certain reference resources in print and online
- Use multiple tools effectively to search for and in reference resources
What
are Reference Resources? |
Reference Resources
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