Recapp Quiz - Study Skills - Research and referencing

Study Skills...

• enable you to be more organised when studying

• help you to study more effectively

• are an array of skills which tackle the process of organizing and taking in new information, retaining information, or dealing with assessments.

• All of the previous answers

A recommended reading list, Google Scholar, Activate Learning Online, and Journal Databases are all

• just words to me

• sources that are highly recommended for research

• optional places to look for more research

Primary Research is

• Research that I carry out first

• Research that I have gathered myself

• The most important type of research

• This is research that someone else has gathered and you are using as a basis for your research.

Why do we use primary research?

• A research project without new data is nothing more than a literature review.​

  Primary research allows you to prove or disprove a hypothesis.

• Gives us a starting point.​

  gives us data to compare our results to.

Why do we use Seconary research?

• Gives us a starting point,

  and gives us data to compare our results to.

• A research project without new data is nothing more than a literature review.​

  Secondary research allows you to prove or disprove a hypothesis.

What sort of research is Primary Research?

• Opinions​, facts​

  & Observations

• Facts & figures​

  Results of original experiments​

  Historical data

What sort of information can we gather in Secondar Research?

• Facts & figures​

  Results of original experiments​

  Historical data

• Opinions​

  Facts​

  Observations

In order to use sources properly, they need to be referenced correctly.

• True

• False

Harvard Referencing

• Is an author/date method. Sources are cited within the body of your assignment by giving the name of the author(s) followed by the date of publication. All other details about the publication are given in the list of references or bibliography at the end

• Is a type of referencing used by Harvard Students only

• Is a type of referencing style which only has a list of authors in the reference list at the end of a piece of work

The purpose of referencing

• Is to organise thoughts

• Is to present work neatly

• Is to create extra work for students

• To demonstrate the breadth of your research, avoid any suspicion of plagiarism​, so the reader can easily find the source​and because it is required by publishers​

  It is an academic requirement