BSC 4910 Undergraduate Research

JoVE Science Education Database is a video database dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations.

USF has access to four sections:
• General Laboratory Techniques;
• Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology;
• Model Organisms I: Yeast, Drosophila, and C. elegans;
• Model Organisms II: Mouse, Zebrafish, and Chick.

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Learn how information is created, disseminated, and how this impacts the information content and use

Learn the characteristics of primary sources in the sciences and how to find them in journals and databases.

Learn how to distinguish scholarly, peer reviewed, sources from popular books and articles.

Learn how to select a well defined search topic for fast, effective searches.

Learn how to take a topic and generate search terms

Learn how library research databases differ from each other, from the internet, and how to find the best one for your research.

Learn the database, keyword, and Boolean searching to create an effective search strategy.

How to evaluate individual documents based their authority, purpose, currency, accuracy, and the strengths of their evidence.

Learn how to analyze media resources and to think before you click and share

Learn how numbers are used and misused as well as how to find data for your projects and assignments.

Learn the purpose and structure of annotated bibliographies.

Learn more about what we mean by “the literature” and the purpose of literature reviews:

Effectively and ethically incorporate direct quotes and block quotes into your papers.

Best practices to effectively paraphrase a source and avoid plagiarism woes.

Explore the best practice to effectively summarizing information texts.

Learning the distinctive structure and format to effectively write an abstract.