Study skills Finding information Moodle. Stages to complete an assignment 1. Understand the assignment brief 2. Find the information needed 3. Evaluate.

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Study skills Finding information Moodle

Stages to complete an assignment 1. Understand the assignment brief 2. Find the information needed 3. Evaluate the information you find 4. Note taking 5. Present your work in the appropriate format 6. Reference and avoid plagiarism

Aim and objectives The aim of these slides is to help you find information suitable for your assignments. They should help you to: carry out a search, choosing suitable search words use search engines and the library catalogue to find information online and from resources college provides

Introduction When you get an assignment you will already know lots of the information you need to include in it. You can find out other information in lots of ways. asking tutors asking colleagues asking other people you know websites magazines and journals books and e-books TV programmes

Search words Make sure you ask the right questions though.

Search words Think about: words that have more than one meaning whether or not your search is biased e.g. are you looking for advantages or disadvantages or both what subject you are focusing on, e.g. animal, sports or human nutrition

Finding information online Use the tools on Google and other search engines. You can use this to find images to use.

Finding information in the library There is a link to the library catalogue from Moodle. From this drop-down menu choose e-books, books, DVDs etc. From this drop-down menu choose ‘author’, ‘title’, ‘subject’ etc. You can add more rows by clicking +

Finding information from e-books You can search for e-books on the library catalogue.

Finding information Click here to go to the Online User Guides on Moodle. Dawsonera e-books Digimap Ebrary e-books IHS Issues Online Global Plantsand more

Activities Choose an activity that is useful to you. Add 1 new source of information to an assignment you are working on. Use the library catalogue to see what DVDs are available in your subject area. (Hint: choose from the two drop- down menus) Search for an e-book in your subject area. When you find one follow the ‘Read me’ link. Find and copy/ print an appropriate page. Find an image for an assignment that is free to use, share or modify. (Hint: use advanced search)