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Learning Skills Guides

The Learning Skills Guides provide advice on how to activate your learning, how to write in an academic environment, and how to develop your study information skills, enabling you to research and learn efficiently. Use the link below to navigate through the guides.

Basic Search Tips

Tips to get you started on a database search

  • Review the assignment question and identify key concepts e.g. 'occupational therapy' and 'aged'
  • Brainstorm alternative terms for each concept e.g. 'occupational therapy', 'elderly'
  • Use double quotation marks to search for an exact phrase. e.g. "occupational therapy"
  • Use brackets to group like terms together e.g. ("occupational therapy" OR OT")
  • Use OR to retrieve articles that include either/any of your terms e.g. (aged OR elderly)
  • Use AND to retrieve articles that include both/all of your terms e.g. "occupational therapy" AND aged

For more detailed, step-by-step instruction, check out the User Guides sub-tab (under Finding Articles), or go to the Help menu on any database.

Evaluating Resources

Need a refresher on how to quickly evaluate articles and websites? Try one of these tutorials.