Collect material
Prior starting to write, it is important to collect all relevant material for essay writing. Often students have an access to university digital library, but they fail to understand how to search through e-journal/periodical, e-books and other electronic resources. The lack of knack to collect authentic and relevant material from given sources compel students to seek assignment help from reliable online assignment expert. They take in all key aspects, from planning an essay to collecting material and placing the information in a structured form.
With heaps of material available, translating the question into a search statement is the first crucial step to track down the required information. The search strategy or statement development should start with picking out the words related to the topic which is easy to find in sources either library catalogues or computer data bases. The next important step is to decide; based on formulated search statement that must be appropriate and relevant resource in the subject area. For instance, if your search statement is:
The harm, consequences, side effects or risk – of denying or providing MMR vaccination, either as three single injections or a triple vaccine to children.
Here, you may be looking for:
- Opinions and Ideas – pressure groups opinion, expert opinion, government opinion, public opinion, organization opinion, companies’ opinion who are involved in trials, parents concern.
- Results from research– scientific information, medical experiments
- History–where and why the debate began, also the particular cases that makes the vaccine questionable
Once you get a clear idea of what information to look on for essay topic, then you are able to closely search for the individual available resources, for example; database to check for the information it holds. After finding sources, it is required to weigh up the information relevancy and develop critical awareness of the positions represented in the reading material. Though, in some cases, the authors might explicitly express particular point of view but in others there might be biasness which would be hidden and can be misleading. Snowball is considered as one of the best ways to source relevant essay material. For instance; to use bibliographies and footnotes, there is a need to extend reading list on a subject. This may take in known writers; by checking their bibliographies and work cited in those articles that may eventually help in accessing up-to-date information on the topic.
Useful Research Resources
Usually, research papers or dissertation requires literature review which holds references to information from wide-ranging resources. It is significant despite the literature review covers a narrow subject area. The resource table list down many sources that may be useful to check, if there are important resources that aren’t looked or search for yet. Each source should be tracked upon using a table so that you don’t miss out on any required information or source to be used.
Source cards:
Gathering various information sources is easy but finalizing the relevant one can be confusing. To find out the authentic and reliable one, it is better to make a good use of source cards. It may help to know the source of information when incorporating selected information. Numbered source cards can be placed sequentially for later reference.
A sample of source card – for books:
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Source# |
1 |
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Author name |
San David |
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Title |
Vaccination |
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Publication city |
UK |
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Publisher date |
1990 |
A sample of source card – for journal article:
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Source# |
2 |
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Author name |
Rosette Ame |
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Title |
Advantages of MMR vaccination; A case study of UK |
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Publication city |
Manchester |
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Publisher date |
2015 |
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Journal name |
BMG Journal |
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Volume and page number |
Vol. 3, pp. 32-35 |
When making notes for sources:
- Select the information source
- Create source card for different research source
- For each source, make a separate note card
- Jot down the heading, author name, title, page number, and the link of the source information is gathered from (if making it on online)
- Make notes of all, even though you aren’t sure about using all of the information
After making notes;
- According to the outline, arrange evidence or sources in a sequential manner.
- Organize supporting evidence for every debate or argument. There may be a need for locating more information or omitting some.
- Use range of evidence, such as, statistics, anecdotes or reasoning.
Tracking the current developments and trends in the subject area
When doing research or if engaged in a continual research process, it is important to keep a track on current trend and developments in subject area. It is easily done with the use of an automated alerting service such as ZEOTC, Quora and other Universities library which sent emails to stay updates on most debated academic research and industrial topics.
Use of automated alerts
It provides information on current trends and debated topics on academic related matters. The emails (automated alerts) from university library and resource center, and other academic related sites constantly update students on conference, seminars, published articles and other trending day-to-day academic research matters. This serves a useful purpose to identify good source of collecting relevant material.
E-books
Students can find e-books which is accessible anywhere. It can be through institute’s digital library, and websites like Project Gutenberg, Open Library, Google eBookstore, Internet Archive, LibGen/Library Genesis, ManyBooks.net., Book Boon, Libri Vox and other.
Databases and journals
Databases and journals offer through and systematic study of a topic by practitioners and researchers. Few common free online databases and journals are CORE, ScienceOpen, Social Science Research Network, Public Library of Science, Open DOAR, Paperity etc.
Mailing lists and Newsgroups
One of the most used ways to stay up-to-date of developments is to join newsgroups or create mailing list. It serves worthwhile for employing research in context and for forging links with broader research community. Many of the mailing lists are maintained by JISC mail and academic-related newsgroups are maintained by Google Groups.
Learned societies and professional bodies
Spend in subscription when don’t belong to any organizations as it is valuable and useful for specialist resources and libraries, personal contacts, news, conference bulletin libraries, training, and in-house publications.
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