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Tonight’s Collaborate

Session will begin at

7pm AEST.

Research and Referencing

� Research tips

� Google Scholar

� Library search and databases

� What is referencing?

� Reference styles: APA & Harvard

� In-text citations, paraphrasing and direct quotes

� Referencing tools

� Turnitin

� Assessment Support

Questions? Hold onto them for now

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Overview

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Why bother learning

how to research

effectively?

What counts as academic source?

� International refereed journals

� Books

� National refereed journals

� Government and industry reports

� Websites and non-refereed journals

� Not Wikipedia!

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Google Scholar your

new best friend

Linking Google Scholar to Swinburne Uni Library

Click settings wheel

Linking Google Scholar to Swinburne Uni Library

Click Library links

Linking Google Scholar to Swinburne Uni Library

Enter Swinburne, click search, tick the Swinburne University of Technology –

Full Text at Swinburne and save

Now you are ready to search

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� Read the question carefully and select important terms: What is the impact of Major Depressive Disorder on Attention and Working Memory in young adults

� Try multiple ways of searching – you’ll get some different results

� Search various terms e.g. depression, major depression, depressive disorder

� You can search the whole lot or just depression and memory and then depression and attention

� You can first search without young – check the articles for age groups

� Expanding your results e.g. behaviouris* OR behavioris* = behaviourist, behaviousism, behaviorist, behaviourismorgani?ation* = organization, organisation, organizations, organisations, organizational, organisational

� Narrowing your results “preschool literacy development”, AND, NOT

Adjusting the dates

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Accessing the full article

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Accessing the full article

� Then click view online

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Accessing the full article

� Then click on the name of the journal article after Full text

available at …..

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Accessing the article

� You will then be directed to login to the Swinburne Library –

use your SIMS username and password.

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Accessing the article

� Read the abstract and if it looks good, download and save

the full pdf

� Check article references to further your research

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Beyond Google

Scholar

Swinburne Library Search

www.swinburne.edu.au/lib

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Swinburne Library Databases

� Go to the Swinburne

Library website and click

Databases/Journals

� You can search for

specific journals and

databases

� Subject guides – find

the right databases for

your units/course

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Swinburne Library Databases

EBSCOhost - multidisciplinary collection including:

� Social sciences and psychology

� Life and health sciences

� Business and management, computing

� Search specific EBSCOhost databases

- Business Source Complete

- PsychINFO

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Swinburne Library Databases

� EBSCOHost search for major depression and working memory

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Swinburne Library Databases

� Search PsycARTICLES within EBSCOhost

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Referencing

What is referencing?

� A reference is needed whenever you are using an

idea/definition/concept/experimental results from another

author or source

� In-text citation versus reference list

� An in-text citation is used in the body of your essay/report

straight after your paraphrased your work to demonstrate where

you got that idea

� All sources cited in the body of your text needs to be included in

an alphabetical reference list at the end of your work - and you

should not include any references for which there were no in-

text citations

Why do I have to reference?

� Validates your work, and demonstrates to the reader (your

eLA) that you have researched thoroughly

� Citations and references help readers find the source that

has influenced your work

� Helps you to avoid plagiarism, which is considered a very

serious offense (more on this later)

� Direct quote

Moran argues that it is important to “trust the teacher to use professional judgement and follow the right path rather than the marked path” (2008, p.213).

� Paraphrase

If a teacher’s professional judgment suggests an alternative approach, they must be permitted to take it (Moran, 2008).

Quote or paraphrase?

Referencing styles

� “About this Unit” in Blackboard lists which referencing style you need

to use for your unit e.g. APA 6th Edition or Harvard

� If in doubt always check with your eLA as they will be marking your

assignment.

� Both referencing systems follow the basic author/year model but there

are differences (e.g. Harvard always uses page numbers, APA only uses

page numbers for direct quotations not paraphrasing)

� In-text citations will always have the author’s surname, followed by the

year of publication

Eg. Turner (2010, p.23) observes that “blah blah blah”.

OR

It has been suggested that “blah blah blah” (Turner 2010, p. 23).

Referencing List

APA

Buckridge, M., & Guest, R. (2007). A conversation about

pedagogical responses to increased diversity in university

classrooms. Higher Education Research & Development,

26(2), 133-146. doi:10.1080/07294360701310771

Harvard

Buckridge, M & Guest, R 2007, 'A conversation about pedagogical

responses to increased diversity in university classrooms', Higher

Education Research & Development, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 133-46,

viewed 16 September 2008, via Informaworld database.

Referencing tips

� Referencing anything that comes from anywhere other than

your head

� A citation at the end of a paragraph only covers you for that

sentence; the rest is potential plagiarism.

� Synthesise your sources; aim for a number of sources per

paragraph/idea

� Build your reference list as you go; do not leave referencing until

you’ve “finished”

Referencing styles

� Psychology and Education students use APA style

� All other students (i.e. Business students) use Harvard style

� You can find links to the referencing style guides and referencing tool here:

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/studyhelp/referencing.htm

� This is a useful site for how to format audio-visual material in APA format:

http://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing/apa-referencing-

guide#Audiovisual_and_other_media

� NB. Learning and Communicating Online – you can use either so use the

referencing style that you will be using for the rest of your course

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Referencing tools –

your other new best

friend

Taking the hard work out of referencing

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http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/studyhelp/referencingtool.html

Taking the hard work out of referencing

https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/reference_tool/index-core.php

Taking the hard work out of referencing

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/recite/index.html

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If in doubt check the

referencing tool, or

ask your eLA

or an SLO

EndNote

EndNote

View, highlight and add notes

to PDF copies of articles

Endnote adds bibliographical

data for you when you import

PDF articles or you can enter

bibliographical details directly

EndNote Plugin for Word (PC)

• Endnote “Cite while you write” plugin in Word.

• Simply search Endnote for source you wish to reference to

insert in-text citations and reference list for your assignment.

• Endnote formats citations/reference list for you in Word

EndNote Plugin for Word (MAC)

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Turnitin – checking for

plagiarism

Submitting your assignment in Turnitin

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CS2

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CS1 Catherine Sutherland, 22/07/2014

CS2 Catherine Sutherland, 22/07/2014

Submitting your assignment in Turnitin

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Assessment details

and criteria

Where to submit

your assignment

Turnitin

� Assessments submitted through Blackboard

� Checks for plagiarism

� Originality reports

� Percentages

� Click to see details of matches

� Turnitin originality report is available 30 mins after first submitted then 24 hours for each subsequent submission

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• Your eLA!

• Assessment Support in your unit in Blackboard:

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Thanks and happy researching.

Any questions?

We’re

done!