UOS/5500 UOS5500 UOS 5500 UNIT 1 ASSIGNMENT 1

UOS 5500 UNIT 1 ASSIGNMENT 1

ASSIGNMENT 1

Assessing Research Skills

Resources

• Assessing Research Skills Scoring Guide.
• Information Skills Self-Assessment.
• Information Skills Reflection Worksheet.
• Courseroom Tour: Submit an Assignment.
• Courseroom Tour: Finding Grades and Feedback.

Throughout your program, you will build and refine your research skills. At the master's level, it will not be enough to simply state your opinion in your writing. Faculty will expect that you support the claims and arguments you make with quality, scholarly sources.

As you reflected on in your Unit 1 discussion, you are already coming into your master's or graduate certificate program with skills and strengths. As part of this assignment, you will assess your research and information literacy skills and identify both strengths and areas for growth. You will have an opportunity to review resources recommended specifically for you based upon your assessment results, and will then reflect on what you've learned from reviewing those resources.

Assignment Instructions

Step 1: Check the scoring guide.

Open the Assessing Research Skills Scoring Guide in the resources to see how this assignment will be graded.

Step 2: Complete the assignment.

• Complete theInformation Skills Self-Assessment. This self-assessment is linked in the resources.
  • Review the information presented in theIdentifying Scholarly Sources If additional resources were recommended for you, review at least one of the suggested resources.
• Open theInformation Skills Reflection Worksheetprovided in the resources and follow the directions to complete it.
• Save your completed worksheet as a Word document to your computer using the following title:u01a1_Your Name.

Step 3: Submit your assignment.

Attach your Word document to this assignment and submit it. To do that, complete the following:

• Click theu01a1 Unit 1 Assignment 1 
• In the assignment area, clickBrowse My Computer to locate and attach your document to this assignment.
• ClickSubmit.

Step 4: Review your feedback.

You will see an alert in your Course Updates when your assignment has been graded. To see your grade and instructor feedback, complete the following:

• ClickMy Grades.
• Click theGraded 
• Click on the assignment and then open the scoring guide.

Courseroom Tip: As you continue taking courses at Capella, it is important that you review instructor feedback on all assignments and discussions. This is a necessary part of your learning and improvement process.