LibGuides: Composition I Research Guide for ENGL 101: Home

Using this Guide

This guide was created to help you with your research. Use the tab(s) at the top of the page to guide you..

Do not pull your hair out searching for sources!

Students have spent hours and hours endlessly searching, getting frustrated and wasting time. As a result, they also hate research.

Ask a Librarian!

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Library Website and Off-Campus Access

USC Upstate Library Home
This is the Library's homepage that lists and links to all of our resources.

USC Upstate Library Off-Campus Access
Instructions on accessing library databases and electronic resources when off-campus.

Information Literacy and Useful Tools

Information Literacy is a PROCESS...

What is Information Literacy?
This 4 minute video from Credo Reference puts information literacy in daily life, work, and academic contexts and introduces the five information literacy standards.

You may be asked to complete the Library Virtual Tour by your Composition instructor. If you have already completed the assignment for University 101, print and present the confirmation you receive by email to prove that you have done the tour.

Library Virtual Tour with Quiz
The Library Tour Module is a required activity in University 101, but serves as a good introduction to the library and its services. It consists of video segments from the Library Video Tour, quiz questions about each segment. University 101 students are also required to complete the Library Activity.

The Library Virtual Tour is a required activity in University 101, but serves as a good introduction to the library and its services. It consists of text, video, quiz questions about each segment, and an interactive activity.

USC Upstate: Plagiarism Prevention Module
This Module and the attached test were created by USC Upstate Librarians to help students learn about plagiarism and how to avoid it. We encourage faculty to assign the module to students near the beginning of the semester.