APA (American Psychological Association) and Harvard Referencing Styles are the two most used in the Faculty of Arts. The UWC Library has compiled the Referencing Styles Guide @ UWC to help you with referencing.
The University of the Western Cape is using two Reference Management Tools that students can use to manage their references by citing and creating bibliographies: Endnote and Mendeley
You can add files to Mendeley by:
You can edit PDFs that have been added to your Mendeley Library. You can do this by double clicking to open the file in a seperate tab within Mendeley Desktop. You now have the option to:
Oct 15, 2018
Install the Mendeley Web Importer -- Install the Web Importer into your favorite web browser to import references and documents academic databases.
Save articles to your Mendeley Library as you browse.
SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) can be found on UWC Library A-Z list of databases.
SRMO is an online search tool that provides information and instruction on research methods in the social sciences. It is designed to answer methods questions that arise during the various steps of the research process, including the literature search, review, research design, data collection, analysis, and write up.
SRMO has taxonomy of over 1,400 methods terms, showing the relationships between them.
These terms link to full text content from:
- Over 600 books
- Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks
- The entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series
- Two major works collating a selection of journal articles
· Identifying and formulating the problem
· Defining the issue
· Reviewing the literature
· Defining the population of interest
· Determining the sample size
· Selecting the data collection method(s)
· Research proposal
· Designing the survey instrument
· Collecting data
· Analysing and interpreting the data
· Reporting and presenting the findings
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