Research Skills for Students

This Guide is for students

This guide is intended as a self-directed resource to help you through your studies, particularly if you are beyond the first year of your undergraduate degree. If this IS your first year, you might want to check out our First Year In: FYI handbook.

This guide is for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are just starting to be asked to use Library resources independently by your instructor (i.e. outside your reading list) right through to those working on a final or taught Master's - level dissertation. If you're just starting your independent work with information sources, you might get started with the tabs on Types of Sources, on Evaluating Sources and on Citing & Referencing. Are you starting a major research assignment i.e. final year project or Master's project? Not a bad idea to check this guide out all the way through, starting with section one, which covers the very important Research Question.