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Resources for Assignments
Study Guides
Tipsheets
Online Tutorials
Workshops
The Student Learning Centre offer a range of workshops that will assist with your writing:
Time Management
Individual Consultations with a Learning Advisor
Student Learning Development - One-on-One consultations
Writing & Language Development
Mind Mapping Apps - Individuals & Teams
Coggle - with this, you'll see the central node of a new mind map, with a plus sign to get started adding new nodes and ideas
MindMeister - this tool includes keyboard shortcuts, embeds live videos, adds team members' upvotes, and downvotes & leaves comments.
Scapple - start with an idea, and work "backwards" to find the main idea. Individual nodes will connect by dragging and dropping.
Stormboard - uses sticky notes and index cards, group your notes on different parts of the screen to represent connections.
SimpleMind - click on it to change it to whatever idea you're mind-mapping, and click on plus icons to create new branches and nodes.
Evaluating Information (Te Ara Canterbury)
It is important to identify Good information from Bad information
The video will help you evaluate the information you come across
Evaluating Information (Pdf)
YouTube Video - CRAAP Test (2:16)
Plagiarism
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
Academic integrity means being honest in your studies and assessments. Academic integrity is informed by the values of honesty, trust, responsibility, fairness, respect, and courage.
In New Zealand, high value is placed on full acknowledgement and referencing of the words and ideas of others. If you want to use information that you find elsewhere you must acknowledge where it came from.
This interactive online tutorial will help you learn what plagiarism is, why and how students get in trouble for it and how to use ideas or quotes from your research effectively.
Citation Guide
These books can help you when you are working on written assignments for art history and theory.
If you follow a citation style correctly, you will avoid plagiarism and help your reader find your information sources.
How to Manage Your References
There is software available to help you keep track of all of the information that you find and ensure that your citations are formatted correctly
Managing Your References - Introduction (Citation Library)
Know which reference manager you are looking for? Use the following links to quickly navigate to their tabs in this guide:
EndNote is software used to manage bibliographic citations. It can be used to organise references, cite them in papers, and automatically generate bibliographies - in the citation style of your choice.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.
Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data.
Citing Social Media
APA & MLA (Georgia State)
Chicago (Carleton)
Harvard (Bournemouth)
How to Cite a Podcast (MLA, APA, Chicago etc)
Everything you need to know about organizing, completing and depositing your thesis, including what you need to know about copyright.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a comprehensive collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, dating from 1743 to the present. With 200,000 titles added annually, most content added since 1997 is available in full-text.
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (PQDT) is a comprehensive curated, collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses, offering over 5.5 million records representing dissertations and theses from thousands of universities around the world.
Use your University Username & Password. Sage Campus supports the teaching and learning of skills and research methods through 280+ hours of structured online learning. Our online courses are self-paced and instructor-led, comprising an engaging mix of Sage-quality content, video, interactives, and formative assessments.
Exam Prep Regulations Otago University
Exam Prep Resources
Using AI
This document guides the appropriate use of generative AI in higher education aligned with the Higher Education Standards Framework (2021).
By the Australian Academic Integrity Network (AAIN) Generative AI Working Group, March 2023.
This LibGuide has some important considerations that you should keep in mind before using Gen-AI in your studies. Cite Write!
To outline the University’s approach to the use of generative artificial intelligence and autonomous content generation in learning and teaching.
Digital Tools for Archival Research
Illinois Libguide (Digital Tools)
Transkribus (Transcription tool)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.