This document provides an overview of research skills for students completing a dissertation or project. It discusses finding and evaluating sources, referencing styles, and tools like Mendeley and Zotero for managing references. The document offers tips on developing search strategies, assessing different types of sources, and keeping track of bibliographic information. It emphasizes that proper referencing is important for giving credit to other authors' work and receiving credit for one's own research.
12. Impact of advertising
Does television advertising have any influence
on the eating habits of teenagers?
Eating
habits
Television
Advertising
Teenagers
Youth?
Adolescent?
Teen?
Young people
16. Books
Why was the book written?
Who published the book?
When was it published?
Is the book well organised?
Has the book got a bibliography?
Who is the target audience?
34. Referencing means…
You need to include a citation every time
you use another author’s work in your essay.
To do this, you will either put the reference
in brackets (Smith 2014, p. 123) or you will
use footnotes/endnotes.1
1
Smith, J. Reference Like a Boss (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2014) p. 123
…in-text references
35. Referencing means…
Copyright Licensing Agency. “Copyright Licensing Agency
(CLA) : Licences for Education,” 2012.
http://www.cla.co.uk/Licencesforeducation.
Curley, Duncan. Intellectual Property Licences and Technology
Transfer: A Practical Guide to the New European
Licensing Regime. Intellectual Property Series.
Oxford: Chandos, 2004.
Pedley, Paul. Digital Copyright. 2nd ed. London: Facet
Publishing, 2007.
Secker, Jane. Copyright and E-Learning : A Guide for
Practitioners. London: Facet, 2010.
…a bibliography
36. When should I
start to think
about
referencing?
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37.
38. What information do I need?
For books… author/editor, full title, page numbers,
publisher, date and location of publication, edition
For articles… author, article title, page numbers
journal title, date, volume/issue/number of the
journal
For websites… author, date of publication, website
title, full web address, date accessed
41. Both have…
• Desktop application – Windows/Mac/Linux
• ‘Cite while you write’ plug-ins for the most
popular word-processing programmes
• Ability to create groups to share references,
PDFs, comments etc. with peers
• Back-up and synchronisation across
different devices
42. But…
• Zotero is alternatively available in an online
only version as a Firefox extension
• Mendeley has an official iPad/iPhone app,
with 3rd party apps available for Android. No
official Zotero apps, but 3rd party available
for both Android and iOS.
• PDF annotation feature in Mendeley.
43. A detailed comparison of several
reference managers:
http://library.wisc.edu/citationmanagers/comparison.html
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45. For more information…
Pop in and see us in the Library, or email
library@homerton.cam.ac.uk
The UL runs further research skills courses:
http://training.cam.ac.uk/cul
This session was adapted from some of
Emma Coonan’s presentations at:
http://researchcentral.wordpress.com/