Book Title: Research Skills for Students

Author: Academic Skills in the Library

Book Description: An open educational textbook for Master’s students and advanced undergraduate students seeking to navigate the world of academic research. This comprehensive guide begins with the foundational step of creating a clear, focused research question and progresses through identifying and evaluating scholarly sources. It details the importance of developing an effective search strategy and emphasizes the importance of academic integrity, providing detailed instructions on how to properly cite and reference sources to avoid plagiarism. There is also a very useful chapter on using the referencing management software Endnote to create a library and cite and reference sources. Through practical advice and illustrative examples, this book equips students with the essential skills needed to conduct thorough and ethical research.

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Academic Skills in the Library

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Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects

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Title
Research Skills for Students
Author
Academic Skills in the Library
Licence

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Research Skills for Students Copyright © by Academic Skills in the Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
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University of Galway