 STARS (Sure-fire Techniques for Achieving Research Success)
Step 3: Reviewing Sources
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Benefits and Drawbacks of Books
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Benefits
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In-depth coverage of topics.
- Provide footnotes and bibliographies which lead to other sources of information.
- Give you historical perspectives on topics.
- Often provide case studies, statistics, facts, in-depth knowledge and authors' opinions.
- Some are published online through such Library subscription services as NetLibrary; tables of contents, bibliographies and indexes can be searched and information obtained full-text.
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Drawbacks
- Will not always contain the most current information. Magazine or journal articles are a better source for the most up-to-date information.
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Step 3 to review more types of sources.| Return to Introduction.
Adapted with permission from the
JSCC Library Information Literacy Tutorial.
Comments and suggestions to
Barbara Quintiliano, Instructional Design Librarian.
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