Writtle College has 2 subject librarians, whose main role is to support you with information and research enquiries for assignments and dissertations.
Who are your subject librarians?
Christina Harbour – Animal; Business; Equine & Sport
Christina.Harbour@writtle.ac.uk
Rachel Isaac-Menard – Agriculture; Conservation; Design and Horticulture
Rachel.Isaac-Menard@writtle.ac.uk
You can contact them via email or in their office upstairs in the library.
Some useful Research and Teaching & Learning E-books that are available in our Dawsonera collection.
Anyone who lives, works or studies in Essex can access Essex public libraries. Library members have free access to the online reference library that includes resources and databases such as:
– Encyclopaedias and general reference collections
– Dictionaries
– Information on Biographical, Historical and Genealogical
– Art, Literature and Music from online resources
– Current affairs information
– Business information
– Newspapers and magazines online
– Specialist information
You can view a list of resources that are available at the following link on the Essex public libraries website – http://tinyurl.com/694bklg
Some that be of use to Writtle students include:
– Credo Reference as a starting point for research
– The Business Collection on Gale Virtual Reference
– Guardian and Observer archive – 1791 to 2003
– Times Digital Archive
– Oxford Art Online database
– British Standards Online
– Datamonitor 360 (formerly Marketline)
– Mint company information
This document is intended to help you find journal articles on the subject you are researching. For more help see your Subject Librarian.
Research pt 4 finding journal articles
Journal articles provide up-to-date and focused information on current research and topical areas of your study. They do not usually provide background or basic information. Often it is a good idea to use books and encyclopedias to find this background and basic information before you search for journal articles.
There is a huge amount of information on the Internet and not all of it is good quality for academic work. See the following powerpoint for information on how to evaluate web resources and see what’s good and what’s not!
Research pt 3 Evaluating Websites
Research pt 3 Evaluating Websites (PDF version)
Brainstorming is a good technique to use to plan ideas for an assignment.
The following PDF is taken from the libraries page on Moodle and will help you with finding a purpose for your research and brainstorming a particular topic.
If you require further help with your research please come and see your subject librarians based upstairs in the library.
In the coming week the library will be posting a four part series of research documents to help you with researching for assignments. They will be titled:
On the libraries Moodle page there are other documents available to help you with research and using the library.
Just a reminder to all
This blog has a number of subject specific pages based on the subjects taught at the college. These are accessible using the tabs above.
These pages are updated with information, new resources, conferences, links etc to help with research and current awareness in your subject area.
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