On this page are some resources which you may find useful for essay writing, including guides to evaluating literature and Internet resources, and guides for constructing essays and citing references correctly. I am not including print resources from the library's own collection as they can be found by consulting the catalogue.
If you are an international student you'll find helpful resources (including English language and study skills help) here
Using Library Resources
Click here to go to a simple
tutorial
which will help you to master the basics of using the Library's web
site and catalogue. There are explanations of basic skills
required, some simple examples, and questions (with answers provided !)
Style and Writing Guides
The Library has a general Style Guides page, as well as a detailed introduction to the Author-date (Harvard) referencing system. Other sites of interest are listed below.
A
Guide to Harvard Referencing (Leeds Metropolitan University)
The Harvard or author-date system of referencing is described here.
It is one of the commonly used systems, but there are several versions
which differ slightly from one another.
Harvard
Style
examples
From Monash University.
Nursing
Standard OnLine: Research Article
Hamill C (1999) Academic essay writing in the first person: a guide
for udergraduates. Nursing
Standard, 13, (44), 38-40
Plagiarism
- Advice to Students
From the University of Melbourne.
Plagiarism
Online Resource
From the University of South Australia.
Plagiarism:
What it is, and How to Recognize It and Avoid It
From Indiana University.
Purdue Online Writing
Lab
This site from Purdue University has some useful features, with over
130 instructional handouts including Help with English as a Second
Language
(ESL).
Referencing guides
Guidelines, from the University of South Australia's Learning Connection, for using various referencing conventions.
Uniform
Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals | The
Vancouver
Guidelines
These guidelines are produced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. The latest version is available at this site.
Vancouver
Style examples
From Monash University.
Essays And Assignments
1. Describe the contributions of two Australian nurses to the development of nurse education or clinical practice or nursing research.
For this assignment you may find the following web site helpful
Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Project
You'll find a list of names added to the Bright Sparcs database. Click on the name for brief biographical
information. You could then check these names in the library
catalogue, to see if we have books by or about these people.
You could also try the following catalogue search using the Basic Search, Keyword option
nursing and australia and biography
2. Ear Infections in Aboriginal Children
There's a page of searching instrucions for this assignment here.
Searching the Journal Literature
Section 7 of the Library Tutorial for Nursing will give you general advice on searching techniques.
Basic help for searching CINAHL is here
Notes and tutorials for PubMed (Medline) can be
found here
Basic help for searching PsycINFO is here
There is a useful NICS
Guide to the Cochrane Library which explains the purpose of the
Cochrane
Library, and how
to search it.
Evaluating What You Find (Critical
Appraisal Skills)
I've included some links below, but you will find additional resources
on my evidence-based
medicine
page.
How
to Read an Article (pdf 17kB)
Our own tips on evaluating journal articles.
How to Read a
Paper
- A Series of Articles from the BMJ
This series of articles by Trisha Greenhalgh was published in the BMJ
in 1997 to assist readers in evaluating journal literature.
Critical
Appraisal and Using the Literature
From ScHARR - the University of Sheffield School of Health and Related
Research.
Users'
Guides
to the Medical Literature
A series of articles on critical appraisal of medical literature, from
JAMA.
The what-is methods download page
From Bandolier, an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare. Downloads are available on a variety of topics including QUALYs, confidence intervals, critical appraisal, and meta-analysis.
Remote Student Library Service
The library operates a special service for country,
interstate and overseas students. For details click
here
Finding Past Examination Papers
As past exam papers tend to be kept in a
variety
of locations, and in different formats we have created a web page which
explains How
to find exam papers
Finding Theses
There is a special section of the
library's
web site which provides information on locating both Adelaide
University
theses and theses from other universities by using the Library
catalogue,
relevant databases and web sites, and the Interlibrary loans service. |
