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LANG 1408 - Academic English for Humanities and Social Science Studies

This online module is designed to complement LANG 1408 & 2070 and help students build skills for doing research and life long learning and development

Primo Research Assistant

The Primo Research Assistant  is a Generative AI tool that helps you explore academic content using natural language questions. 

Ask Primo Research Assistant question in natural language
It uses most of the content found in our Library's subscription to identify five sources and extracts key information from their descriptions or abstracts to provide answer (overview). 
Above the answer, you’ll see the sources used to generate it along with in-line citations that let you clearly see which source was used to generate each part in the answer. Use these sources to search deeper into the topic and to fact check the responses from the tool.

Click View more results to explore more than the five sources listed.
Primo Research Assistant identify five documents that can help answer your question

Note:

  • You must sign in to MyAccount to use the Primo Research Assistant
  • It may return results that are not in the Library's collection, request interlibrary loan if necessary.
  • Some Library materials NOT searched by the Assistant:
    • APA
    • Elsevier
    • JSTOR
    • Taylor & Francis
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