Information Skills

Every assignment requires the right information. Just as making a cake requires the right ingredients ...

Before you start, you need to know what the recipe is and where you can get the ingredients. Once you've made the cake, you ought to evaluate how it tastes.

Use this area to learn more about information, and follow practical tutorials designed to develop your awareness. Your subject librarians can help you to develop your information skills through individual appointments and training sessions arranged by your tutor.

Once you've used information, it's important to make sure you correctly reference everything you've used. This is so everyone knows that you've haven't borrowed any of the ingredients without acknowledging them (what we call plagiarism) and that others can go back and reproduce your recipe in future. To help you do this there is a University approved handbook as well an interactive reference builder for you to use.  For more help with referencing, see How does it taste?