About this page
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Task: Essay plan and Essay This guide is designed to provide you with information and tips to help you find academic sources including peer reviewed journal articles for your assessment. Please view your course page and course outline for full assessment details |
Is it an 'academic' source?
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Find scholarly sources guide
Identify the key features of scholarly articles and books includes how to find peer reviewed articles (PDF, 2 pages)
Searching tips
Searching the collection
The Library collection is a great place to find books and articles for you essay.
Searching can be trial and error to see what keywords or combination of keywords work. Here are some example searches:
| Piaget AND cognit* AND development | disorder* AND etiology | prosocial AND situation* |
| disorder* etiology | "early childhood" OR "early development" | personality trait* |
Once you have run your search use the Refine my results to narrow your results. Here are some examples:
- Narrow Resource Type to Books or Articles
- Show Only select Peer-reviewed Journals (note this will remove books)
- Publication Date add a date range e.g. if you only want results from the last 5 years
More help:
Take a 15 minute tutorial to sharpen your skills and Learn to Search the Collection.
Understand your topic with Oxford Bibliographies
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Oxford Bibliographies: Psychology by Call Number: onlineIf you want to find more information about a topic and key works in that area, try this guide
PsycINFO getting started
DSM-5 Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - DSM-5 by This new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5®), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health.
APA Style
The Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style provides an introduction to the seventh edition APA style and is designed for writers new to the style.
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Massey University APA referencing toolAPA Interactive creates customised examples of APA references and in-text citations.
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APA StyleAcademic Writer, formerly known as APA Style CENTRAL®, is APA's complete digital environment for teaching and conducting the process of scholarly writing.
Learn about referencing using the seventh edition APA style in this interactive tutorial from JCU Library. Create a reference for a book, a journal article and and a webpage. 
Study help
The Student Engagement Unit has created a suite of resources called Study Help that can help you understand different assignment types.
Take a look at:
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Writing and Academic Language
Resources to help you structure, format and write your assignment.
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Writing essays
This page contains an essay overview and examples from different subject areas
PASS sessions are free and informal study sessions run by students who excelled in the course. Designed to help you better understand the course. Click on the link to view the timetable.
