• Awareness of the issues and consequences of underrepresentation of minoritised ethnic populations in research
• Awareness of the difference between race and genetic ancestry and how this relates to research

• Your LibrarySearch Account
• Virtual browsing in LibrarySearch
• Researching your topic using LibrarySearch
• Requesting items in LibrarySearch

• Importing your references into EndNote with all the required data
• Working with the references within your EndNote library for the purposes of undertaking a review
• Using EndNote to double screen titles/abstracts/full text

• Explain the broad categorisations of journal articles
• Explain/outline the peer review process whereby an article is submitted for scholarly evaluation by experts
• Suggest questions you need to ask when reading and critically analysing a journal article
• Provide practical tips to facilitate the effective reading and critical analysis of an article

• Provide an overview of some of the research process which goes into writing and publishing journal articles
• Explain how journal articles are constructed
• Explain why journal articles are constructed in this way

• Understand what reflective practice is and why it's important
• Identify when reflective practices can be useful
• Implement reflective practice techniques (based on established reflective models and theory)
• Develop your reflective writing, for both your academic work and your career

• • Develop your understanding of thinking, reading, and writing critically.
  • Use strategies to select your reading.
  • Understand the Critical Thinking Model and apply it to your academic work.

An interactive tutorial which teaches students how to think critically about research and research methodology. It gives students the opportunity to:

• identify different types of bias
• identify study designs
• use critical appraisal checklists.

This interactive tutorial looks at how to handle anxiety and deliver a presentation with confidence. It also explores effective speaking techniques and body language.

This resource is part of the Surviving your presentations series of tutorials, which guide students through the whole process of creating and delivering presentations.

This interactive tutorial looks at how to define the purpose and key messages of a presentation. It also looks at how to structure, write, and edit the content of a presentation.

This resource is part of the Surviving your presentations series of tutorials, which guide students through the whole process of creating and delivering presentations.

This interactive tutorial will help students to identify appropriate tools for developing visual aids, as well as showing how to use text, images, charts and other multimedia elements effectively.

This resource is part of the Surviving your presentations series of tutorials, which guide students through the whole process of creating and delivering presentations.

This interactive tutorial looks at different types of presentation and their purpose. It also outlines the process of writing and delivering a presentation.

This resource is part of the Surviving your presentations series of tutorials, which guide students through the whole process of creating and delivering presentations.

This series of four interactive tutorials will guide students through the process of writing, designing, then delivering a presentation. It includes the following tutorials:

• Understanding presentations
• Planning and writing your presentation
• Designing your presentation
• Delivering your presentation

Each tutorial can be used as a standalone resource or worked through as part of the Surviving your presentations series.

This is a series of six interactive tutorials aimed at undergraduates. It guides students through the whole process of writing an academic essay.

It includes the following tutorials:

• Understanding essays
• Interpreting the question
• Researching and reading critically
• Developing your ideas
• Writing critically and structuring your essay
• Editing and reviewing

Each tutorial can be used as a standalone resource or worked through as part of the Essay survival guide series.

• set up Word to work with EndNote online
• insert and remove citations in your Word documents
• edit how citations are displayed
• change the citation style.

• organise your references into groups
• share groups with other users
• edit, delete and find duplicate references
• create a standalone bibliography.

• find appropriate bibliographic databases
• search for and export references from various databases
• import references into your library
• manually add references to you library.

• registering for an EndNote Online account
• logging into EndNote Online
• installing plugins so you can insert citations in Microsoft Word
• setting up the referencing styles you will need.

A ten question quiz which tests understanding of the different aspects of good academic writing style.

• why we have assessment criteria
• what is expected of you when completing an assignment
• how to approach an assignment question, and
• how to plan your writing and research.

• structure your work
• write in an academic style
• use appropriate academic language
• revise, edit and proofread what you have written

• explains the difference between descriptive and critical writing
• explores how to effectively synthesise information from a range of sources, and
• demonstrates how to form paragraphs that synthesise sources while making your own arguments and opinions clear.

• what citing and referencing mean, and why they are important
• what plagiarism and collusion mean and what actions are viewed as plagiarism or collusion
• how to use others' research in your own work
• how to correctly cite and reference other's work using the style recommended by your School

This Xerte tutorial offers a step-by-step guide to referencing in the MHRA style. It includes examples of ways to reference a wide variety of sources.

A PDF guide is also available on the Intranet (a Cardiff University login is required).

• planning a search
• identifying the key information resources to use
• effective search techniques
• how to access full text of documents online, and
• how to use databases to keep up to date with new publications

The fourth in a series of five Xerte tutorials introducing the main features of the desktop version of EndNote. This tutorial covers citing and referencing in Word using references in your EndNote library and changing the citation style.

Made available under CC licence with permission from Clarivate Analytics.

The third in a series of five Xerte tutorials introducing the main features of the desktop version of EndNote. This tutorial covers organising and searching your EndNote library as well as adding and annotating PDFs.

Made available under CC licence with permission from Clarivate Analytics.

The second in a series of five Xerte tutorials introducing the main features of the desktop version of EndNote. This tutorial covers exporting references from bibliographic databases and manually adding references from other sources.

Made available under CC licence with permission from Clarivate Analytics.

The first in a series of five Xerte tutorials introducing the main features of the desktop version of EndNote. This tutorial covers installing EndNote and creating your own EndNote Library.

Made available under CC licence with permission from Clarivate Analytics.

This Xerte tutorial, aimed at 6th form and further education students, focuses on techniques for assessing the quality of sources of information.

This tutorial is part of the Evaluating the Evidence suite created to support schools offering the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate.

This Xerte tutorial, aimed at 6th form and further education students, covers: defining the scope of your research topic, search techniques for getting the best out of Google and search tools and web sites for finding good quality, freely available information.

This tutorial is part of the Evaluating the Evidence suite created to support schools offering the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate.

• Why you should evaluate information
• How to establish the credibility of the information you have found
• Techniques for critically reading your sources
• How to select information that contributes effectively to your assignment

• Tip 1 - How to focus your search
• Tip 2 - How to access the full text
• Tip 3 - How to set up email alerts
• Tip 4 - How to use the "Cited by" links
• Tip 5 - How to set up your reference management software