The Guide to Research contains the following three components:

• Evaluating Sources
  Finding Gold Among the Garbage: A Students’ Guide to Researching Books, Articles, and the Internet Intelligently. This is a working draft of my guide to research. It contains detailed information of finding books, articles, and Internet resources and helpful advice on how to judiciously differentiate between scholarly resources and popular articles and periodicals, primary and secondary sources, and advocacy, informational, and commercial websites. The guide provides simple step-by-step instructions on how to do research and how to evaluate resources.
   

• Links
  A list of other online guides for evaluating and citing internet sources.
   

• Sample Bibliography
  To illustrate the process of finding, evaluating, and using Articles, Books, and Computer sources, an example of a student bibliography developed using the guidelines is provided.