Piano Pedagogy: Home
Useful resources
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Citing Sourcesstyle guides & examples for reference lists (aka bibliographies).
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Knowledge Markethelp with research, writing, presentations, and data
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Resource MarketGuides, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants
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Government Resourcesdata, census, info about federal, state, & local government, & cool stuff
GVSU Resources
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Education Subject GuideLook here for music education resources.
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Education: Projects and Thesesfor education graduate students working on their master's projects or theses
Welcome!
This guide's purposes are to: help you learn more about keyboard musicianship while using piano repertoire for music courses / music written for the keyboard, or information about the piano, pianists, or piano music; help you save time and energy; and successfully complete your assignments.
Each discipline or field of study has different values about types of information and procedures for research, so the resources here will be different from those you might have used in other courses in fields like Writing or Biology.
Music CDs, books & scores are on the 3rd floor.
Annotated Bibliographies: How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography (From Cornell University. Includes examples.) and Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) (A selection of annotations in different styles)
News
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On this Day in Music HistoryEvents, birthdays, & deaths for this day in music history, from a wide variety of genres & musical styles. Chronology.
Library Basics
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Databases, journals, & articlesVideo defines each and explains how they fit together
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Resource MarketThe Resource Market has guide sheets, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants. Use the search bar or browse using the buttons.
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Focusing a TopicThis video shows different ways of focusing a topic for a research paper.
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Building a Search StrategyVideo explains how to develop a search strategy before using the catalog or databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any database, or search engine.
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How to Find a BookThis video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.
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Requesting Books, Journals in Print Form, and DVDs
While many articles & ebooks are online, some are in the robotic book retrieval system (official name = Automated Storage Retrieval System or ASRS) behind the Service Desk on the 1st floor.
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Practice Good Information Hygiene: Sanitize before You Share4 quick and easy steps to help stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation: pause, fact check, search, examine original source. From the News Literacy Project
Subject Guide
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