Creating Effective Research Assignments

This article discusses the ways that peer-reviewed, scholarly research articles are difficult for new undergraduates to find and use effectively. The authors recommend using scholars' informal writing as an entry point that helps students contextualize scholarly research before trying to read it.

This article reports on the results of a qualitative study at OSU - examining the processes undergraduate students use to select databases and choose sources for a typical research assignment.

Researchers provide detailed descriptive data of how undergraduate writing students use sources in their papers.

This article describes the ways we talk about research and how that discourse shapes student learning. The authors recommend shifting away from a focus on "finding sources" toward "learning "about" topics and ideas when we talk to students about class assignments.