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What is Questia?
The premier online research and paper writing resource
Questia has helped students find and cite high-quality, scholarly research since
its founding in 1998. Combining a deep library of online books and articles, easy-to-use
search engine and time-saving tools, Questia will help you research smarter, faster.
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Our library
Credible sources you can cite and reference
Questia offers quality sources selected by librarians and approved by professors,
many of them peer-reviewed! Our library contains high-quality scholarly books, journal
articles, magazine and newspaper articles. With more than 78,000 academic books
and more than 9 million articles from more than a thousand of the world’s leading publishers, Questia is your single destination for academic and professional research – and nothing is ever checked out!
Peer-reviewed sources in a wide range of subjects
- History
- Philosophy
- Economics
- Sociology
- English and literature
- Anthropology
- Psychology
- Political science
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Research tutorials: Guidance for writing research papers
Research tutorials help you with writing research papers
Students develop a deeper understanding of the research process through our interactive tutorials that are a guide to research with videos, task-oriented lessons, and quizzes. Covering 10 different topics – such as Planning a Paper or Avoiding Plagiarism – students pick up many valuable tips for writing a research paper. Take all ten tutorials or only selected activities in the self-paced mode – start, stop, and resume them at your own pace.
Instructors can assign tutorials as part of coursework
Instructors can assign and schedule any of the research tutorial videos, examples, quizzes plus readings from the Questia library to their students, tracking their progress and success along the way.
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Tools to streamline your research process
Questia provides time-saving research tools, like automatic bibliography creation,
highlights, notes, citations and more, all designed with the research process in
mind.
Try our research tools now by reading one of the titles shown below. You'll get a preview of what's available to our active members! You can also watch a short video demonstrating our research tools!
Video demonstrations
See how Questia makes your research process faster and easier.
Searching our library
Managing your projects
Writing a research paper
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Completing Questia assignments
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