Information Literacy

Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information.  As more information is made available electronically, it is important to develop good research skills.  Develop your information literacy through some of these online tutorials and tools: 

TILT is the Texas Information Literacy Tutorial, from the library system at the University of Texas.  Completing the exercises in the tutorial will improve your research and information literacy skills. To access the TILT, click here.

Learn more about the Big6™ steps of information literacy, which can help you conduct research in an organized manner.  A tutorial prepared by the library at Syracuse University in New York takes you through the 6 stages, step by step. To access the tutorial, click here.

Style Guides

American Psychological Association
APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 5th edition of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.

Chicago/Turabian
From the Writer's Handbook, University of Wisconsin. For more information on Chicago/Turabian style, click here.

Modern Language Association
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. For more information on the MLA style, click here.

Citation Builder
The Citation Builder illustrates differences among several major styles of citing information sources. To go to the Citation Builder website, click here.

Citation Machine
Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties. To go the Citation Machine website, click here.

Additional Online Information Sources

Kabul University Library, in conjunction with the University of Arizona library system, has compiled a collection of useful web-links and online resources.  You can explore them through their website: http://arrakis.library.arizona.edu/afghan/index.html, and clicking on "Links" or "References and Guides."