PGR workshops
Finding Resources for your Literature Review and Beyond - Theory for PGRs
18 July 2012
Date Information
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Wed, 18th July 2012 | 9:30am - 10:30am |
Who Should Attend?
This session is designed for first year PGRs
Course Overview
This session builds on the Graduate School's 'What is a literature search' tutorial by enabling you to turning ideas into an effective search strategy and statement.
It outlines the current information landscape and takes you through the stages involved in deciding upon and developing an appropriate search strategy, as well as enabling you to create a search statement that you can put into practice immediately after the session.
Participants will develop their knowledge and intellectual abilities, so that you will be able to seek and find research material in an effective and efficient manner using the resources available to you at Loughborough University but also in the future too.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- relate the information landscape to their own research
- translate their research question into a search strategy
- construct and adapt their search strategies to suit their information needs and circumstances
- apply different search techniques, e.g. phrase searching, Boolean operators, truncation, wildcards, controlled vocabulary
- recognise the strengths and weaknesses of citation rates
- write their own search statement for immediate use in an electronic resource.
- identify the range of options available to them for obtaining material, e.g. book loans, electronic journal articles, ILL, visiting other libraries.
- identify sources of help within the University for their information needs
Other Information
This session is recommended for all new research postgraduates and relates to the Researcher Development Framework's Domain A - Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities.
This session is a pre-requisite for 'Finding resources for your literature review and beyond - Practice'.
Booking
Please book for this event via the Staff Development Database.