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Why should you use  academic journals in your research?

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Why should you use  academic journals in your research?

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Post your answers here!!!

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A Digital Object Identifier(DOI) is a unique code given to most journal articles published online, which can be used to locate a source more reliably than a URL.

You can generally find it in the first page of the document you are using.

DOIs can be used in a reference in place of a URL. Either method, using a URL or a DOI, is acceptable.

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1. Edition number (for journals)
2. Volume number
3. Where it was published (location)
4. Name of publisher

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Title of a book
Title of an article
Name of a journal

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Make sure the sources you use are recent!!!

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First name + Middle name(s) + Surname
e.g. John Smith
Charles Henry Smith

First name always comes first!!!
Many people don't have middle names

Initial is the first letter of the first and middle names
e.g. J. Smith
C. H. Smith

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How to write citations using a specific referencing style

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How to write citations using a specific referencing style

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To produce a citation for any kind of material in any style, you will need four pieces of information:

1. Author(s) and/or editor(s)

2. Year of publication

3. Title

4. Publication details (e.g. edition, where published, who by, number of volumes)

You will also need URLs for online sources - remember to specify the retrieval date (date in which you used the source)

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At the end of the sentence

***** (author, year of publication)

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At the beginning of the sentence
According to .....

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Your references have to support or counter the statements and arguments you make in your discussion. A long as all of them are doing this job, it doesn't matter how many there are. Just make sure that they are doing this job, and are not just there for decoration!

An easy way to check this is to highlight all your citations, then check that each has been discussed. Look out for a balanced mix of statements, evidence (e.g. references) and analysis.

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Students often worry that including a citation for every idea they have got from their reading will make their work look like it is unoriginal and derivative - just a string of other people's ideas.

However the originality will come in your understanding, interpretation and use of what you have read, which will be quite different to other people's. If you are thoughtful about your research and writing, this critical analysis will be visible throughout your work, so don't fall into the trap of feeling you have to include 'something original' in your conclusion!

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Long (full citation in Harvard style)

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Paraphrasing =
Putting your understanding of what you have read into your own words

Short (surname, year of publication, page number)

Example

ORIGINAL

Set yourself a target - perhaps of writing 500 words per session - and make this a minmum target, regardless of how long it takes you to do. This method has that inbuilt incentive for you to finish the work as soon as possible. If you finish the work quickly then the rest of the day/evening or weekend is your own to do what you like with it.
Source: Hoult, E. (2006), Learning Support for Mature Students, London: Sage, 62

PARAPHRASE
Hoult (2006, 62) argues that setting targets for achievement can be an effective way of managing study time, and may encourage task completion.

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In UK academic culture, it is poor practice to use a lot of direct quotes from someone else's work. Your assignment should be mostly written in your own words, using evidence from your research to support or challenge your statements. When it is appropriate to use direct quotes, these should generally be kept as brief as possible.

Note that opening or closing a paragraph or assignment with a quote is not good style in university-level writing.

Examples
Turner (2007, 14) argues that it is more effective to work "better, not longer".

However, identity may be expanded "through both space and time." (Wenger, 1998, 181).

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You need to provide a citation whenever you refer to an idea that you derived from a source. This is the case whether you use a direct quote, a paraphrase, or even just a direct or indirect mention.

You need to include a brief citation (IN-TEXT CITATION) in the text at the place where you refer to the source, and a full citation in your bibliography or reference list.

The style of referencing you are using will dictate which details you include in your citations, how you signpost brief citations (in the body of the text or in footnotes, directly or by assigning a number which links to full details in a reference list), and what order you put information in.

The style of referencing used at TUNIC and at the UON is Harvard.

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Referencing is a key academic practice for university students. Through correct referencing, you acknowledge the author's contribution to your understanding, and give your reader the opportunity to reproduce your research by following the same cited texts.

You also show that you can work with accuracy by learning and following a set of rules (referencing styles).

You can lose marks for incorrect referencing, or even find yourself guilty of accidental plagiarism.