As a student of Senn High School and a resident of Cook County, you have access to many scholarly resources. This library guide will help you navigate those materials and answer a lot of your research questions, including:

Topic Development

• What can you research?
• Is there information on this topic?
• How can you turn this idea into a research question?

Where should you search?

• Where can you find reliable articles and books?
• What free resources can you access, and how do you get to them?

Is this a good source?

• Is this a reliable and relevant source?
• Is it peer-reviewed?
• What does it MEAN to be scholarly?

How do I cite my sources?

• What is a citation and how are they formatted?
• What tools can create and organize citations for you?
• How do you cite different sources?

Plagiarism

• What is common knowledge?