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Citation ethics from the scholarly communication perspective

In this video, a group of students came to a professor’s office and enquired how to cite sources in their research proposal.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Bibliographical citations Scientific literature -- Evaluation Technical writing Research -- Methodology
Resource Type:: Video

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Finding up-to-date information

In this video, a team of students found one article about the candy-soda geyser from the Journal of Chemical Education and would like to add this into the General Chemistry Laboratory. However, the journal article was published in 2007, so it is a bit out of date. Prof Cheong encourages you to search for any recent updates to this experiment.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Bibliographical citations Information retrieval Scientific literature -- Evaluation Citation of electronic information resources Bibliometrics
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How to use information for the task

In this video, the 4 students have used skills learned in Section 3 to evaluate the information found in various databases on a journal article, e-books, anatomy and drug information, etc. They have now come up with a batch of most relevant information that they will use in their community health project assignment which comprises the creation of patient education materials and the writing up of a project report. They meet to discuss what information they should use to fulfil the information tasks. The issue of properly citing sources of the information used also comes up as a skill that they also need to master to avoid plagiarism.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Bibliographical citations Information resources -- Evaluation Plagiarism Technical writing
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Shortcut of creating references for research paper

In this video, a student, Jacob comes up with a brilliant idea to compile over hundreds of highly relevant citations for his reference list in just under an hour. Without this shortcut, Jacob might have spent a week tidying up his references before submitting his paper. Do you want to learn how Jacob so painlessly created the reference list? Watch the video below and see what Jacob ends up doing after he meets with Prof. Ian, his co-supervisor of the research project.

Keywords:: Bibliographical citations Report writing
Resource Type:: Video

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To cite properly in APA style

In this video, the students are trying to finish writing up their report and using APA as the citation style.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Social sciences -- Authorship Psychology -- Authorship Bibliographical citations
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