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Research Essentials

Level up your researching, reading and writing skills with these essential tips and navigate your first university assignments.

Resources for writing

Get help with your writing

These resources will help you when it comes to writing your assignment:

Top tips for writing

•    Get one on one writing advice (from week 4 of semester)
•    Finish your assessments well - learn more about editing your writing

Understanding referencing

Referencing involves:

  • Acknowledging the sources that inform your work
  • Accurately recording details about these sources
  • Presenting these details in a standardised way

 

Your subject will require you to use a specific referencing style in your assignments. Each referencing style looks quite different, but they all require you to:

  • Cite the sources you're quoting or referring to in the body of your writing (using in-text citations or footnotes, depending on the style)
  • Cite the sources that have informed the ideas in the body of your writing
  • List each of your sources in a reference list or bibliography at the end of your essay

Learn how to reference with Re:cite

Re:cite includes citation templates and examples for all the major referencing styles at the University of Melbourne. It also contains links and instructions for tools and software that can help you manage your references as you collect sources and write.

Submiting your assignment

If it's your first time submitting an assignment on Canvas, there's a few steps you need to work through. Make sure you're aware of what's required before the submission deadline. Depending on your Subject Coordinator's choices, your assignment may be checked to see how similar it is to other assignments and published work using a tool called Turnitin.

Visit the guide to submitting an assignment online

Learn more about Turnitin and Similarity Reports


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