FYS: I’ve Got That Main Character Energy (Grable)

Welcome to the Research Guide for the First Year Seminar:

"I've Got That Main Character Energy"

This guide is meant to help you develop the skills and tools to accomplish your course objectives:

• To reflect on significant questions about yourself, your community, and your world.
• To develop the capacity to read and think critically.
• To develop the capacity to write clear and persuasive expository and argumentative essays with an emphasis on thesis formation and development.
• To gain an understanding of basic principles of oral communication as they apply to classroom discussion.
• To understand the liberal arts as a vital and evolving tradition and to see yourself as agents within that tradition.
• To develop capacities for careful and open reflection on questions of values and norms.
• To develop the ability to carry out research for the purpose of inquiry and to support claims.

The library (and your librarian) are here to help you! Use us early and often!

Looking for more?

Don't limit yourself to the databases listed above! Do you know what sort of subject area that your research would best fall under? You can find Databases Grouped by Subject! Pick the subject that best matches your research question and you'll be taken to a page where the liaison librarian for that subject has compiled a list of appropriate databases for you to use.