Subject Guides: Education: Research Support

Post Graduate Research Guide

https://library.up.ac.za/c.php?g=485435

This Guide provides post graduate students with the tips and tools necessary to successfully complete their research.

SAGE Research Methods

SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools.

Sage Research Methods

Finding Information: Information Sources from the Library

EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window EBSCOhost databases and discovery technologies are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide, representing millions of end-users.
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Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window Emerald's Management collection features over 80,000 articles from over 200 titles. The collection continues to disseminate the latest thinking, from authors at 95 of the Financial Times Top 100 business schools and forms an essential part of the research library at most of these institutions. Our specialist collections in fields such as Education, Engineering, Library Studies and Marketing build on this strength; offering focused international research in a range of subject fields.
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JStor This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest This link opens in a new window ProQuest’s collections span six centuries, all disciplines and the diverse content types needed by researchers, providing the world’s largest collection of dissertations and theses; three centuries of newspapers; more than 450,000 academic ebooks; collections of important scholarly journals and other content researchers need such as data; and unique digital vaults of primary source materials . ProQuest’s renowned abstracting and indexing enables researchers to find sources in their area of study.
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SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.
Taylor & Francis (Journals) This link opens in a new window Taylor & Francis Group publishes quality peer-reviewed journals under the Routledge and Taylor & Francis imprints.
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University of Pretoria WorldCat Local This link opens in a new window University of Pretoria Libraries is dedicated to offering you access to the widest possible range of resources. You are now able to search our collection and the collections of many other libraries worldwide using WorldCat, the world's largest network of library-based content and services.

Post Graduate Online Training Subject Guide

Research Training Guide

https://library.up.ac.za/c.php?g=1128848

This guide provides step-by-step training, working through the various stages of the research cycle, to develop and improve the necessary skills to complete your research.

What is a literature review?

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Examples of a GOOD and POOR Research Proposal

Please remember to use the GOOD PROPOSAL

GOOD Proposal
Example of a good research proposal.
POOR Proposal
Example of a poor research proposal

Referencing styles used in Education

APA examples
Examples of the commonly used sources cited with the APA referencing style
Harvard
Examples of Harvard Referencing

Anti-Plagiarism

Plagiarism
Finding help using other authors' work as part of your own work
Paraphrasing self test
What is Paraphrasing?
Presenting ideas and information you got from another author/speaker in your own words