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Taught Postgraduates - May 2021 Information Skills Refresher sessions |
Library skills: recordings
The materials listed in this section are aimed at taught postgraduate students working on dissertation research and are intended to supplement discipline specific workshops that were delivered at the start of the academic programme (Sept/Oct and Jan/Feb).
Our six information skills recordings below, present techniques, tips and resources to help you find academic scholarly books and journal articles, as well as reliable support material. The issues of plagiarism and correct referencing are covered in part 5. Instruction on reference management software RefWorks is included in parts 3 & 5. To access the recordings, please log in with your University of Aberdeen username and password. To access the presentation PDFs, click on the relevant link, then on the next page click on the 'Download' tab.
Please note: materials were created in May 2020 but the information still applies.
Part 1: Introductory session - referencing, planning a search, document types and search tools |
Listen to the recording (running time 8:12) | PDF of presentation |
Support materials |
Search planning grid |
Part 2: Using Primo to look for electronic books, and wider to individual e-book collections |
Listen to the recording (running time 8:47) | PDF of presentation |
Part 3: Using databases to access journal articles and conference papers |
Listen to the recording (running time 12:30) | PDF of presentation |
Support materials |
Search planning grid |
OnePetro - quick guide |
Scopus worksheet |
Web of Science worksheet |
ProQuest worksheet |
Medline worksheet |
Dissertations & theses resources |
Part 4: Using Google - advanced search and evaluating results (RADAR) |
Listen to the recording (running time 8:12) |
Support materials |
Google worksheet |
Google - further information |
Part 5: Referencing, avoiding plagiarism, time management |
Listen to the recording (running time 13:37) |
Support materials |
Referencing guides |
Reference management software comparison |
Part 6: Finishing off - summary, contacts for help and support |
Listen to the recording (running time 8:40) | PDF of presentation |
Help & support |
Information Consultant contact details |
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Student Learning Service: recordings
Support material on writing literature reviews and aspects of writing a dissertation is provided by colleagues in the Student Learning Service.
Planning and writing a dissertation |
Listen to the recording (running time 21:05) | PDF of presentation |
Writing a Literature Review |
Listen to the recording (running time 16:59) | PDF of presentation |
Plagiarism |
Please watch our short video about plagiarism:
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IT Services: online courses (25 & 26 May)
IT services delivered the following online courses on the 25th and 26th of May to support PGT students writing and formatting their dissertation using Microsoft Word. The sessions were delivered via MS Teams. To access the recordings of the sessions you will need to use your University username and password.
Focus on Word... Adding Style to your Dissertation |
Listen to the recording of the online session (25 May 2020) - running time 49:51 |
Focus on Word... The Power of Section Breaks |
Listen to the recording of the online session (26 May 2020) - running time 47:55 |
Support materials |
Workbooks & exercise files for Word: Working with long documents |
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Taught Postgraduates (May 2019 session) |
Dissertation Refresher Workshops: Information, Document and Writing Skills |
This workshop series is designed to support taught postgraduate students working on dissertation research and is intended to supplement discipline specific workshops that were delivered at the start of the academic programme (Sept/Oct and Jan/Feb). Three library (information skills) refresher workshops present techniques, tips and resources to help find academic and scholarly books and journal articles, as well as reliable support material. The issues of avoiding plagiarism and correct referencing are covered (Part 3). Instruction on RefWorks (a reference management package) is integrated through Parts 1, 2 and 3.
Workshops on writing literature reviews, and aspects of writing a dissertation are presented by colleagues in the Student Learning Service (SLS). A workshop on using Word for the creation of long documents is presented by colleagues in the Training & Documentation unit of IT Services. Using LaTeX for writing a dissertation (aimed at students in the School of Engineering) is provided by SLS.
All the materials below are all as used in the workshop series presented in late May and early June 2019.
Part 1: Starting your dissertation research |
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Library Guides |
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Part 2: Going further with your dissertation research |
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Worksheet - Managing References: RefWorks Part 1
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Library Guides |
RefWorks - attaching a file to a reference
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Worksheets for individual databases |
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Part 3: Managing your dissertation research |
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Worksheet - Managing References: RefWorks Part 2
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Library Guides |
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RefWorks guide - Using folders to organise your references
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RefWorks guide - Getting started with RefWorks Write-N-Cite
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RefWorks guide - Write-N-Cite advanced features
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Additional Workshops |
Workshop Materials - May/June 2019 |
Word: working with long documents
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Writing your dissertation in LaTeX
Slides from workshop: presentation_LaTeX_may 2019.pdf
Examples used in workshop: biblio.bib ; Dissertation.pdf ; Dissertation.tex ; Dissertation[1].pdf ; Dissertation[1].tex ; Dissertation[2].pdf ; Dissertation[2].tex ; Dissertation[3].pdf ; Dissertation[3].tex ; Dissertation[4].pdf ; Dissertation[4].tex ; Dissertation[5].pdf ; Dissertation[5].tex ; figure1.pdf ; figure2.pdf ; MyFigure1.pdf ; UoA stacked logo - unable to load this - this can be sent on request, please contact s.mccourt@abdn.ac.uk
See also materials provided in the Toolkit at https://www.abdn.ac.uk/toolkit/skills/latex/
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Writing your dissertation/project
Academic writing - spelling, paragraph structure and constructing an argument
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