Self Study Session Friday 29th August

Tomorrow's tutorial/self study session offers you a further opportunity to research your essay. Now that you have prepared your first draft, your thesis statement and essay structure should be clear and so now you can concentrate on finding the references that support your argument. While you are researching though, you need to be continually assessing the appropriateness, reliability and validity of the sources you are using. You should also be putting into practice your summarizing, paraphrasing and referencing skills in order to avoid plagiarism.

If you are still in doubt about how to use the internet as an effective research tool, take a look at the website below. The "Internet Detective" offers a tutorial on some of the issues above.


http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/brief.html