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Category: Academic Writing

Academic Research Projects / Atlantic Technological University / Library Lunchtime Talks / Postgraduate

Love Data Week 2025

ATU Library is delighted to host a week of webinars to mark Love Data Week 2025, 10th-14th February 2025 open to the whole ATU Community. Join a webinar to find out about …

Academic Research Projects / Academic Writing / Digital Identity / Library System / Research & Learning

Future-Proof Your Research

Going Independent
In this month’s feature we explore how and why you should make your research independent of the academic IT systems in which you created it. We’ll look at:
• Why should you do this?
• Your different digital identities
• Places you might have data stored.
• How to extract data to use it after your course is finished

Academic Research Projects / Academic Writing / Dissertation / Postgraduate / Referencing / Research & Learning / Thesis / Undergraduate

Understanding Your Academic Project

In this month’s feature we explore how to understand your final project through its:
1. Scope
2. Format
3. Methodology
4. Research Methods
5. Referencing Style

Academic Writing / Cite-Them-Right / Harvard Style / Referencing / Writing Tips

Referencing: Harvard Style Details

Would you like to listen to this month’s post? Referencing Styles There are many different types of referencing styles. Each has developed for use in a specific academic discipline and …

Academic Writing / Cite-Them-Right / Dissertation / EndNote / Referencing / Research & Learning / Thesis / Writing Tips

Referencing Advice

In this month’s feature we talk about referencing:
• What it is
• Harvard Style Referencing
• Referencing tools

Academic Writing / Dissertation / Research & Learning / Saving Search Data / Search Tips / Searching for Resources / Thesis / Writing Tips

Search Engines and Search Tips

In this month’s feature we talk about how search engines work, search techniques to find resources for academic projects and the importance of saving your both your searches and your results.

Academic Writing / Dissertation / Thesis / Thesis / Writing Tips

Thesis Writing: Common Project Components

In this month’s feature post we cover an other aspect of thesis writing: common project components. We’ll talk about abstracts, literature reviews and presenting your research.

Academic Writing / ATU Library Service / Borrowing / Databases / ebooks / EOLAS / Research & Learning / Searching / Thesis

Thesis Writing: Finding Resources

This month we’re tackling how to find good quality resources for your dissertation or thesis.

Academic Writing / Research & Learning / Study Tips / Thesis

Thesis Writing: Creating Your Research Question

This month’s feature: how to create your Research Question. Yeats Library guides you through a 5 Step process to help you build your research question for your thesis.

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