We're still working to organize our research resources.

If you are looking for resources in

• • using sources and/or knowing when to summarize, paraphrase, and quote in your writing, visit our Integrating Sources page. 
  • evaluating academic and nonacademic texts' credibility and usefulness, visit our Evaluating Sources page.
  • reading journal articles or other academic sources efficiently and effectively, visit our Reading Strategies page.
  • writing empirical research papers, visit our Empirical Research Writing page.

Conducting Research: this slew of resources gathered by Purdue OWL provides help in conducting primary research, navigating references, searching online, and more.

15 Steps to Good Research: the library of Georgetown University breaks down the research process into fifteen simple steps. The page is a bit dated, and it refers to old citation formats, but the steps are still good.

Interviewing a Source: Tips: this Harvard Kennedy School resource is very useful if your focus is on journalism or if your assignment asks you to interview someone in your field.

JMU Libraries Subject Guides: need to find information on a specific topic? The JMU Libraries has organized resources by discipline.

Click here for the JMU Libraries' “Ask the Library” webpage to chat online with a JMU librarian.