Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project
-
Upload
homerton-college-library -
Category
Education
-
view
114 -
download
1
description
Transcript of Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project
![Page 1: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Research Survival Guide:
Mastering your
Dissertation or Project
Photo by Shreyans Bhansalihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/thebigdurian/
![Page 2: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Liz OsmanCollege Librarian
Annie GleesonSenior Library Assistant
![Page 3: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
In this session…
• Finding material• Evaluating print and online sources• Referencing • Tools to make referencing easier
![Page 4: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Photo by Libatcamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/libatcam/
Photo by Libatcamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/libatcam/
Photo by Faochhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/faoch/
![Page 5: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Ask us to buy books!
![Page 6: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Useful…
…but watch out!
![Page 7: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Museums, archives & rare books
Photo by Libatcamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/libatcam/
![Page 8: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
The literature search
Photo by Nightowlhttp://pixabay.com/en/users/nightowl/
![Page 9: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
A detailed and organised, step by step search for all the material available on a topic
What is a literature search?
![Page 10: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
How do I know what to search for?
Photo by Thomhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/minifig/
![Page 11: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Synonyms Variant spellings
Concept ConceptConcept
Research topic
Research question
![Page 12: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Adolescent? Young people
Youth?Teen?
Television Eating habitsAdvertising
Teenagers
Does television advertising have any influence on the eating habits of teenagers?
Impact of advertising
![Page 13: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Are you getting too many results?
![Page 14: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
…or too few?
Photo by Thomas Guignardhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/timtom/
![Page 15: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Evaluating sources
![Page 16: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
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?
![Page 17: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Journal articles
![Page 18: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Databases
![Page 19: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Newspapers - Be aware of bias
![Page 20: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
How trustworthy or accurate are the results?
![Page 21: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
![Page 22: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Websites
Why was the site written?Who wrote the content?
When was it last updated?Who is the target audience?
![Page 23: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
![Page 24: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
![Page 25: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
![Page 26: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
![Page 27: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
![Page 28: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Image by Andrew Tarvinhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewtarvin/
![Page 29: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Why is referencing important?
![Page 30: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Michael Stothard ‘1 in 2 admits to Plagiarism’, Varsity (October 2008)
49%of Cambridge studentshave plagiarised during their time at University
![Page 31: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
13%did not know that failing to cite sources could be considered plagiarism
Michael Stothard ‘1 in 2 admits to Plagiarism’, Varsity (October 2008)
![Page 32: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Why is referencing important?
GIVE credit – for the work that you are building
on
GET credit – for the work that
you have done yourself
![Page 33: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
How do I do it?
![Page 34: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Referencing means…
…in-text references
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
![Page 35: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Referencing means…
…a bibliography
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.
![Page 36: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
When should I start to think
about referencing?
Photo by Bethanhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/beth19/
![Page 37: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
RIGHT
NOW!
![Page 38: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
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
What information do I need?
![Page 39: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
How do I keep track?
![Page 40: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
![Page 41: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
• 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
Both have…
![Page 42: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
• 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.
But…
![Page 43: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
A detailed comparison of several reference managers:
http://library.wisc.edu/citation-managers/comparison.html
Photo by TheBusyBrainhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/thebusybrain/
![Page 44: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
in action
![Page 45: Research Survival Guide: Mastering Your Dissertation or Project](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070304/54c7c8b84a7959f8238b458b/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
For more information…
Pop in and see us in the Library, or email [email protected]
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/