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Research: Recording

A centralised repository of information to help those undertaking research especially at Postgraduate level

Introduction

This tab covers how to keep track of your research information. How do I organize and manage the information I come across in my research?

Taking Notes from research sources

Effective note taking: Ara
A guided pathway to teach you the concepts of effective note taking.
Taking notes from research reading
Some great advice about what to record from the University of Toronto.
Notetaking example
A lovely example of note taking method on the topic research ethics.

Research Skills - Note-Taking

Summarising research studies

How to summarize a research article
Great printable guide from the University of Connecticut.
How to summarize a journal article
A step by step guide from Wiki-How on how to summarize a journal article.
Summarizing: How to effectively summarize the work of others
Includes brief examples of poor/better summarizing.

The Process of Summarizing

Endnote - recording your sources

EndNote is a versatile reference management software that allows you to:

Store, manage, organize & search references in a personal library
Create bibliographies
Import references from Ara databases
Create in-text citations and reference lists in word documents
Share and sync references

EndNote Is free for Ara students and staff. We have a dedicated Endnote subject guide on how to use Endnote and how to download it.