ENGL1500 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 - Library Tutorial AND writing an essay
Lecture 6 – 12/10/17 – Library Tutorial AND Writing an Essay
- Alumni membership
➢ Borrowing privileges, fewer databases
- Community membership (cheaper)
➢ Access to more online resources while on campus
Research
- Run a search more than one time
1. Define topic
2. Background reading
3. Plan research strategy
4. Find relevant material (e.g. journal articles)
5. Evaluate your information
6. Have you found additional words or concepts that feed back into prior steps?
- Use limiters to refine search (data range, peer-review, subject, resource type)
- Save items or search queries, or set up alert on a search query (Advanced search, Research
tools and techniques, Subject guide – start with books to get your head around the concept)
Search functions
- Use to searh for eat ter
- Use * to search for all forms of stem word
- AND: narrows search
- OR: broadens search
- NOT: strips out irrelevant results
- Use () to nest a phrase and check two synonymous terms within that phrase
Databases
- Content specific (theses, newspapers, historical archives)
- Location specific (e.g. Australia)
- Subject specific (literature, writing, publishing)
Writing an essay
- Begin with materials on course outline
- Use only peer-reviewed sources, or books by reputable publishers
- writersdiet.com
- Zombie nouns
- DOUBLE SPACE everything
- At least three secondary sources
Questions
- Have I addressed the question?
- But do justie to all the tet’s uertaities
- Act like a lawyer and persuade your reader
- Is your title a signpost?
- Does para 1 set out argument
- Does it say how you are going to answer the question?
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Document Summary
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