ENGL 1102 - Wheeler (Floyd) - Fall 2025

Purpose

This guide will cover how to use Galileo tools and the book catalog in order to locate sources for your research paper.

Skills

The skills you will practice are:

1. Differentiating between types of source materials (e.g., books, journal articles, websites, newspapers). 
2. Building an effective search strategy utilizing keywords, key phrases, and synonyms.
3. Refining and narrowing searches using built-in database limiters.
4. Identifying appropriate library databases for specific research needs.
5. Searching the library catalog in order to locate an appropriate resource.

Knowledge

The skills necessary to locate and evaluate sources are transferable to other research you will do in the future, in a library or work setting, or when using a general web browser like Google.