How do you start out with a topic you like or an interesting idea, and turn it into research?  What do you need to know to participate in scholarly conversations? Scholarship is a system in place for valuable academic research and scholarship. Experts use specialized journals to share the findings, and university libraries pay for, organize, and make this information available to researchers. This session will demonstrate how to find quality sources with hands-on examples, and to identify and contextualize quality research—what does it mean for something to be a “seminal work”? Participants will also deconstruct and discuss how the academic world evaluates and ranks published work.