Making the case: an academic guide to research

This guide gives advice on the best ways to find and select the most useful, reliable and relevant information to support and argument in your essay.

Navigating the page: an academic guide to effective reading

This guide introduces you to the various reading styles that will help you get through your research most effectively. It gives tips on how to skim read, and also how to read critically.

Acknowledging knowledge: an academic guide to referencing

This guide explains why referencing in essays is so important, and provides clear examples of exactly how to reference a wide variety of sources from books to YouTube clips

Getting your point across: an academic guide to giving presentations

This guide gives advice on how to plan, deliver and reflect upon an academic presentation.

Academic Integrity

PowerPoint slides for talk on Academic Integrity. Examples are taken from the Medical Literature. Reference is made to the University's Academic Integrity Statement. A quiz using Zappers is included in the presentation.

INFO2009 Academic Year 09-10: Luc Moreau's Tutor Group's Accessibility Resources - Reference List

Reference list for our resource set.

INFO2009 Academic Year 09-10: Luc Moreau's Tutor Group's Accessibility Resource Set

Our resource set

INFO2009 Academic Year 09-10: Luc Moreau's Tutor Group's Accessibility Resources - Poster

Poster for the resource set

INFO2009 Academic Year 09-10: Luc Moreau's Tutor Group's Accessibility Resources

Resource Set

e-Research Methods Theme 8 Writing Your Research Proposal

A good research proposal provides a clear research question within the context of yours chosen research area. It should be presented with the full range of background relating to the topic, unambiguous aims and objectives, and a research methodology. It is assumed that a pre-requisite to completing this core theme is that you have already identified your research question, have conducted your literature review, identified how you will collect and analyse your data, and have planned how you will complete your research, either through discussions with your Masters/PhD supervisors, or the completion of the five core themes on this module ('Literature review', 'Choosing your research topic', 'Project Management' 'Collecting data' and 'Data analysis'.)

e-Research Methods Theme 8 Writing Research Proposal ZIP

Source files for theme 8

Supporting Writing

advice and links related to writing for engineers

writing guide - reports and dissertations

guidance notes on preparing a project report or masters dissertation

Academic Integrity in an Ethical Context: INFO2009 Week 2

Reminder of ECS academic integrity tutorial, scenarios for small group discussion on 1) academic integrity 2) integrity in the workplace. Students are invited to draw parallels between these two aspects.