Academic Research Booklet

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Glossary Abstract – a summary or overview of a piece of work usually including the results or a brief indication of the conclusion. Abstracts are often included on academic journal articles. Bibliography – an alphabetised list of references. Citation – an indication in your text of having used information produced by someone else. Can be either a numbered footnote or the author name and date of publication in brackets. Classification – a library term meaning the number assigned to a book. Can be searched for on the library catalogue Access-IT and can be found on the spine of every book in the library. Direct quote – a quote which is word-for-word the same as it appears in the source, this type of quote will appear within “quote marks”. Indirect quote – information from a source which is not quoted word-for word but instead has been put in your own words to fit with the flow of your essay. Keywords – the words most important to your search that when placed in different combinations will return different results on search engines. Methodology – your plan of action, why you chose to go in the direction you did. Plagiarism – copying information from a source without acknowledging you have done so. Pay wall – a block on accessing information where the reader is required to pay to access the full article. Reference – a detailed note of the publication details of a source usually appearing in a bibliography. There are multiple styles of referencing, the style you choose will inform the way you format your references. Source – the place your information came from for example, a book or website.