Academic Integrity
This type of academic dishonesty involves presenting someone else's work as you own.
This process involves determining whether articles are relevant to keep or not.
What is early article screening
This free, open-source tool organizes your citations and allows you to open and annotate articles.
What is Zotero?
This person is a research expert that provides tailored support to students, faculty, and staff.
What is a librarian
The person you would ask if you are unsure of whether an action is considered scholastic dishonesty.
What is the course instructor
To read what the finding means and why the study matters, you would typically read this part of a research article
What is the discussion/conclusion section
This peer-reviewed journal is published by the national professional organization representing OT and is often a good journal to start finding articles relevant to OT practice.
What is the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT)
This free university service helps writers develop confidence and effective writing strategies
What is Student Writing Support
This type of academic dishonesty involves borrowing various words, ideas, or phrases from original sources and blending them into your writing without acknowledging the sources.
What is patchwriting?
To find the purpose of a study, you would typically find it at the end of this part of a research article.
What is the introduction section
This strategy involves keeping track of search terms and databases used, and will aid students in writing the method of a literature review.
What is a research log?
This tool searches all UMN available databases to find research articles.
What is the UMN Libraries search
This form of scholarly conversation involves condensing large sections or entire works, giving them another meaning, and requires an in-text citation
What is summarizing?
This is the second place of a research article you would look at when screening an article.
What is the abstract?
This database is considered the top database for nursing and allied health literature
CINAHL Database
This software suite, which typically requires purchasing a license, is offered free to UMN students and gives access to desktop apps that can help complete evidence-based projects
What is Microsoft Office
This strategy is the most effective way for students to avoid the most common reason people plagiarize.
What is time management?
These two parts of a research article you would generally skip reading when early screening for articles.
What are the methods and results
This free, popular search engine, maintained by the National Institute of Health (NIH), interfaces with MEDLINE database to find articles
What is PubMed?
This service offers allows students to get access to research materials currently unavailable within the UMN Libraries.
What is Interlibrary Loan?