This guide is designed to support your research throughout the semester! Check out the pages on the left that include:

• Tips on using Google Scholar and various online databases to find relevant articles for your project
• Guidelines for evaluating your search results and sources
• Information about qualitative interviewing- including tips for interviewing
• How to create an annotated bibliography and cite your sources

Have questions or just want help? You can reach out to the Pitt librarian listed on the left.

You have a 15 page research paper due in mid-March.  This worksheet is designed to introduce you to searching the University library’s PittCat for scholarly information you can use in that paper.  Please complete this worksheet and return it to your instructor.  By the end of your assignment, you should be able to:

• Create a multi-term keyword search in PittCat
• Identify an article for your research question
• Determine the characteristics of a scholarly articles.

Pitt Library Homepage:  https://library.pitt.edu

PittCat:  http://pittcat.pitt.edu

Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com

Article Databases:  https://pitt.libguides.com/az/databases

Ask Us online chat help:  https://library.pitt.edu/ask-us