For additional help with navigating ECU Libraries, you may wish to also go through Library 101, which is a tutorial that will go over the basics.
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The purpose of this module is to teach Hospitality Leadership students basic research skills needed to perform research in the field. As a result of completing this tutorial, students will master the following skills: Evaluating Sources, Searching for Articles and Books, Avoiding Plagiarism, and Citing Sources, and more.
| Skills | |
| Leadership |
1) Define Evidence Based Leadership 2) Ask an "Answerable Question." |
| Search for Articles |
1) Identify 3 databases for the Hospitality Leadership field 2) Infer methods to choose an appropriate database for this field. |
| Search for Books |
1) Formulate searches in ECU's library catalog |
| Use Trade Journals |
1) Define a trade journal and what can be found in them. 2) Identify 3 trade journals in the Hospitality Leadership field. 3) Recognize attributes of trade journals and their authors. |
| Locate & Analyze Statistics and Business Information |
1) Discover library databases for finding national and international business information to apply to Hospitality Leadership-related analyses 2) Recognize sources of statistical information. |
| Avoid Plagiarism & Cite Sources |
1) Define plagiarism 2) Identify APA citations for books, journal articles, newspapers, and websites. |
| Get Help |
1) List 6 ways to get help from a librarian. |