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Welcome to Research Skills for Students
The Purpose of a Research Question
Narrowing Your Topic
Developing a Research Question
Testing Your Research Question
Books and Reference Works
Journals and Journal Articles
Finding Newspapers
Finding Theses
Grey Literature
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources
Guide to Dewey Decimal Classification
Scholarly Versus Popular Sources
Getting Started
Boolean Operators
Truncation and Wildcards
Search Terms
Putting it all Together
Introduction to the Library Catalogue and Databases
Searching the Library Catalogue
Databases by Subject or Discipline
Interdisciplinary Databases
Databases by Function
Searching Databases
Evaluating Information and Critical Thinking
Is This Information Appropriate?
Is This Information Relevant and Timely?
Is This Information Credible?
The CRAAP Test - A Useful Evaluative Tool
Lateral Reading - Evaluating Unfamiliar Websites for Credibility
What is Academic Integrity? Why is it Important?
Academic Integrity or Academic Misconduct? What Do You Think?
Introduction to Citing and Referencing
Basic Principals of Citing and Referencing
Citing and Referencing Styles
Harvard Style of Citing and Referencing
APA Style of Citing and Referencing
MLA Style of Citing and Referencing
OSCOLA Style of Citing and Referencing
Vancouver Style of Citing and Referencing
Chicago Style of Citing and Referencing
ACS Style of Citing and Referencing
IEEE Style of Citing and Referencing
What is Endnote?
How to Download the Endnote Software
How to Use Endnote in 7 Minutes (Video Tutorial)
A Library Guide to Using Endnote
Acknowledgements
Endnote for Citing & Referencing
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