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What is Believe it or Not?

"Is it reasonable to believe ..." kickstarts the question for the Core 1 Critical Thinking & Communication essay.

A faculty librarian can help you navigate to academic, evidence-based articles - a valuable skill in finding and evaluating information to support your essay argument points.

Get started by booking a 45-minute appointment with a Bond Librarian. This session will go towards your Beyond Bond.

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Personal appointments are available on campus and online via MS Teams.

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In this 45 minute session you will:

Navigate to and find quality information using Bond Library and selected academic databases
Find academic research to provide evidence for your arguments
Use advanced search techniques in academic databases
Evaluate information using the Currency, Relevancy, Authority, Purpose (CRAP) methods
Understand why acknowledging information (citing, referencing) to prevent plagiarism is so important
Learn how to use dynamic open-access media for presentation.

Linking your work to academic evidence will show a higher level of analysis giving you the opportunity to improve your marks.

This session helps prepare students for the Core 1 key essay assessment and develops skills to transfer to all your Bond subjects ... and beyond. After the session please complete the Quizlet and submit to Beyond Bond for the team to review.

Some of the databases and search engines that may be used in your session include:

Bond University Library Search This link opens in a new window
Ebsco Databases This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database specialising in academic journals, magazines and newspapers, many with full text and images.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database with over 9,000 titles in full-text. Covers many subject areas including business and economic, health and medical, criminology, psychology, military, news and world affairs, technology.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Journals published by Elsevier covering many subject areas including business, psychology, information technology, and medicine. Subscription access is available to full-text articles from January 1995 to date.
Elsevier no longer offer transactional logins for access to pre 1995 content as of 1 January 2019.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals and online books. PubMed includes links to many sites including full text articles.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
If you use this Bond ezproxied link instead of the standard URL, you will be able to see holdings information from Bond Library.

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