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HON 200 Honors Colloquium Searching for Answers: Medieval Torture to Today’s Investigation Techniques: Getting Started with a Topic

Credo Reference is an online research platform that provides access to a vast collection of high-quality reference materials. These include encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, and subject-specific handbooks across various disciplines. It is beneficial for building foundational knowledge on a topic before diving into more complex research.

  • Begin Research Projects: Start with Credo to clearly understand your topic’s basics.
  • Gather Keywords: Note essential terms and concepts for further searches in other databases.
  • Find Background Information: Use it for definitions, timelines, and quick facts.

Gale In Context: Global Issues and Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints' curated hubs of information on single topics are excellent research starting points. Each topic contains an overview followed by organized content on the topic, including reference materials, articles, videos, etc.).

  • Note -If you do not see a topic page related to something of interest,  you can run a basic or advanced search to view any available results (it doesn’t mean content on that topic is unavailable).

 

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World History In Context

Opposing Viewpoints

U.S. History in Context