1. TOUR 5003: Tourism: Impacts and Sustainability
This guide was created to help you find information for your assessment tasks for TOUR 5003. Please consult your Course Outline to see assessment details.
2. How to plan your search
You will need to find credible information for all of your assignments. Knowing how to do this effectively will save you time.
Watch this short video (2m:26s) to get tips on planning an effective search.
3. Finding information
You're required to use academic references in your assignments and the Library Catalogue is a great place to find them.
Search the Library Catalogue to find relevant journal articles, books, and other resources in the collection.
To do a search, try using:
- "double quotes" for phrases
- truncation* to find the plural and other forms of a word
- connect using AND, OR and NOT
Tweak your results using the filters on the left hand side of the page to:
- Limit to articles from Peer Reviewed publications
- Limit by Date eg 2014 to 2019
Take a 15 minute tutorial to sharpen your skills and Learn to Search the Catalogue.
Business Source Complete provides information covering all areas of business including accounting and finance; banking; finance and insurance; construction; computer science; economics and more. Includes country economic reports as well as detailed company profiles.
This is an example of an Advanced Search using Business Source Complete.
You can refine your results (Publication Date, Peer Reviewed, etc.) using the filters on the left hand side of the results screen.
Google Scholar searches academic or scholarly sites, rather than the whole internet like a regular Google Search. For more information on Google Scholar, have a look at our Searching for your Literature Review Guide.
By accessing Google Scholar from within the library website, you will be able link directly to articles that the Library has access to by clicking on the Full-text at UniSA link.
Example Google Scholar search: "cultural tourism" sustainability
4. Reflective writing – Assessment 1
If you're not familiar with reflective writing as an assignment task, this video (2m:14s) can help you understand what's required.
5. Case studies – Assessment 2
This short video (4m:07s) introduces you to case studies - what they are and how they're used.
See the following links for more on case studies:
Referencing support
Need help referencing? Follow the roadmap!
Referencing Roadmap (Harvard)
Help with the Harvard UniSA referencing style. Find in text-citations and reference examples, from different sources such as articles, books & chapters, websites, and more.
Other referencing support tools:
- Referencing hub
Information around what is referencing, paraphrasing, referencing rules, referencing styles and Academic Integrity. Also includes a link to the Harvard Referencing Guide UniSA (pdf).
- Referencing forum
Discuss referencing, exchange advice and post questions and answers about referencing (facilitated by Student Engagement Unit).
Referencing software (EndNote)
What do you do with all those references you have found?
Use a bibliographic management software to store, organise and cite your references. The Library supports the bibliographic management tool EndNote. There are also many free systems available.
