This page has been created to help you get started finding resources for Assignment 1. This assignment has 2 parts, a flowchart and an essay.
Please refer to your Course outline in the LearnOnline site for the assessment instructions.
View the Student Engagement Unit's Academic Skills website for help planning your assignment and making sense of the assignment and instruction words.
You may find it useful to make a mind map to organise your thoughts about the topic:
Start by identifying the concepts (main ideas) from your assignment topic or question. Then consider alternative words for each.
As this assignment asks multiple questions, you should perform a search for each sub question. Use the common concepts plus one or more question-specific concepts.
For example, for the common concept:
First, identify the concept common to each question in the assignment, for example see the tables below, please note this list of alternative keywords is not comprehensive
Concepts | Alternative Keywords |
antenatal | ante-natal, prenatal, pre-natal |
communication |
education, discussion, inform, interact |
Now do the same for the concepts unique to the sub-questions.
Concepts | Alternative Keywords |
health history | medical history |
culture | ethnicity, religion |
routine testing | non-invasive prenatal testing, NIPT |
chromosomal testing |
chromosomal abnormality screening, Chorionic villus sampling, CVS, amniocentesis, routine screening, first trimester combined screening, FTCS |
Next combine your terms:
Example search
antenatal OR prenatal |
AND |
communication OR education OR inform OR interaction |
AND |
"chromosome test" OR "chromosomal abnormality screening" OR "routine screening" OR "chorionic villus sampling" |
For more help:
As part of the assessment you will need to design a flowchart for midwives and health professionals, there are examples of flowcharts provided in your learnon line site
Office 365 is available for all UniSA students and includes Microsoft PowerPoint and Word which you can use to create a flowchart.
Articles from peer-reviewed journals are of high quality and can be used to support the argument that you are presenting. Articles in peer-reviewed journals must go through an evaluation process with experts in the field before being published. The term refereed is also used.
Watch the following video to learn more about scholarly sources.
In the Library Catalogue:
Do a search using the keywords you have identified
You can also search for journal articles in databases. Databases are large collections of articles that the Library subscribes to.
Emcare is a key database for nursing and allied health.
To enter your search in Emcare enter each of your concepts on a separate line. Once you have entered each of your concept lines, select each line and combine with AND. This instructs the database you need your results to have at lease one word from each of your concept lines.
More databases
You should critically evaluate all resources found to determine their appropriateness for your assignment. The video below explains more.
View the Student Engagement Unit's Study Help website for help writing your assignment, or to make an appointment with SEU staff.
You must appropriately cite (‘acknowledge’) all references used in your assignment to avoid plagiarism.