Find Your Source

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5264-8883-1
Verlag: SAGE LTD

Buch, Englisch, 108 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Reihe: Super Quick Skills

The key to building a strong academic argument is finding the best sources. Find Your Source shows you how to cut to the chase and uncover the right sources for your project.

- Hone your research skills and use your library effectively

- Focus your online search so you don’t get lost down a black hole

- Sniff out quality sources (and reject the unreliable ones).

Super Quick Skills provides the essential building blocks you need to succeed at university - fast. Packed with practical, positive advice on core academic and life skills, you’ll discover focused tips and strategies to use straight away. Whether it’s writing great essays, understanding referencing or managing your wellbeing, find out how to build good habits and progress your skills throughout your studies.

- Learn core skills quickly

- Apply them right away and see results

- Succeed in your studies and in life

Super Quick Skills gives you the foundations you need to confidently navigate the ups and downs of university life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What is a source?
How do I know if it’s a good source?
How are primary and secondary sources different?
Where do I go online to search?
What’s the point of the library?
What’s a database? And why is it good for me?
Where do I find stuff that’s not in the big databases?
Who will help me?
Why can’t find I anything?

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas, Gary
Being of a nervous disposition as a child, Gary Thomas failed to write anything on his 11-plus examination paper, which inaction took him to secondary modern school.

He eventually became a teacher, then an educational psychologist, then a professor of education at the University of Birmingham, where his teaching, research and writing have focused on inclusive education and the methods used in social science research. He has led a wide range of research projects and has received research funding from the AHRC, the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Department for Education, charities such as Barnardo’s and the Cadmean Trust, local authorities and a range of other organisations. He has written or edited 30 books, lots of boring academic articles, and quite interesting essays on the state of education in the national press. He was the editor of journals such as the British Educational Research Journal and Educational Review.

He has two grown-up daughters, one daughter at school, and two grandchildren. He likes, in alphabetical order, birds, chess, cycling, dogs, his family, gardening, reading and writing.

Despite supporting Aston Villa football club, he maintains an optimistic outlook on life.