Research Companion Platform Features
This section lists the self-paced learning tools available in ProQuest Research Companion that walk you through the process of creating a research assignment, including crafting a thesis statement, preliminary research, and building citations.
Overcoming apprehension | Getting started | Understanding the basics | What you're curious about | Testing opinions and finding gaps | Challenging topics | The physical and electronic worlds | Services that organize information | Creating strategies | Source types and purposes | Evaluation | Getting proof | What qualifies as evidence | Sources of evidence | Driving a point | Provability | Educating and drawing attention | Audience | Context | Claims and Arguments | Balancing content | Types of citations | Paraphrasing and summarizing | Organizing | Paragraphs | Sentences | Format
SOURCE EVALUATION AID
Periodical -- Detailed information on your research publication of choice -- its focus and intended audience, publisher and type, along with suggestions for other similar publications -- fed by data from ProQuest's UlrichsWeb serials directory.
Book -- Detailed information on your research book of choice -- its focus and intended audience, publisher, along with suggestions for other similar publications -- fed by data from ProQuest Bowker.
Website -- Gain insight on web domains, owners, along with site descriptions and alerts on known characteristics such as "hate" sites or "fake" sites.
CITATION BUILDER Custom citations by media type in commonly used style guides.
REVISION AID Suggestions for improving grammar and writing style.
The e-learning courses and modules below on the ProQuest Research Companion resource are all available on the Research Companion Libguide by ProQuest.
Research Companion Getting Started - This session will introduce how to get started with ProQuest Research Companion, along with identifying its major purposes.
- Note that when accessing Research Companion, you should do so from the Gutman Library website AND log in using your Jefferson Campuskey and password. - once you have done that, then create an account within ProQuest Research Guide.
Research Companion Learning Modules - This session will describe the main body of learning content available throughout ProQuest Research Companion and how each content component fits together in the learning process.
ProQuest Research Companion Research Aids and Tools - This session outlines the essential research tools incorporated within ProQuest Research Companion and describes how they are used in the research process.