November 15th, 2007
Yesterday I posted about sources and their relevance to essays and reports, similar to a 3,000 word essay you could write at college or university as a student. Today, in this post, I’m going to delve into the world of dissertations and theses – which I consider one in the same. No matter where you […]
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November 14th, 2007
Every time I received a paper, research question or conducting a group project I always wondered how many sources I should read, and how many I ‘needed’ to include in my paper, the references section and how many sources to actually quote from. Looking at this from a later point of view I wonder how […]
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October 26th, 2007
Following on from a post the other day about writing your essay at 5am in morning and the thought of writing your essay in one go, I want to flip the coin and post what you could do as soon as you receive an essay question or project. Slap, Bang and a wallop! So, you’ve […]
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October 25th, 2007
Maybe this post should have been title ‘where do you get the information’, but I decide on the above for ‘best fit’. Hmm…. where am I going? Well, this little post is for me to share a little bit of information with you – where I get my information/inspiration from to give me the information […]
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October 22nd, 2007
University libraries are generally extensive and are located in huge buildings, like Newcastle University Library (UK) in the picture to the left. With thousands of students on campus each day, studying a wide array of subjects, the library has to stock a vast amount of material. If you think of the course you are on, […]
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October 15th, 2007
Today is Blog action day – where thousands of blogs produce a post on one topic – this year it is ‘the environment’. Millions of students are studying at the moment and if only a fraction of us where to cut down our usage of energy and recycle more, then we could really make a […]
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