How to Research your Assignment

This tutorial is aimed at first year students or those wanting to improve their research skills. It shows you how to research your assignment by creating a research strategy and identifying the sources of information you need to use.
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How to Avoid Plagiarism

This tutorial is aimed at all students and describes what plagiarism is and how to avoid to it. Students are also introduced to plagiarism detection software.
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How to Reference your Sources

This tutorial is aimed at all students and explains the importance of referencing information sources. At the end of this tutorial students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of citing and referencing sources correctly using the Harvard referencing style.
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How to Write a Literature Review

This tutorial is aimed at those students involved in research and outlines the purpose of a literature review. At the end of the tutorial students will demonstrate an understanding of how to write a literature review.
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Downloading tutorials to Moodle

These tutorials are also available to download to academic courses on the Institute’s Learning Management System, Moodle.
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Acknowledgements:

Images used in the tutorial are based on images from Bittbox, Microsoft downloads from Fotolia, and made / edited in Photoshop & Fireworks.