This document provides tips for conducting effective literature searches and reading academic documents. It recommends searching a variety of sources, including books, journal articles, and websites. Keywords and subject terms should be used strategically, considering synonyms, related words, and antonyms. Databases like EBSCOhost, ProQuest Academic, and ProQuest Ebook Central should be searched using advanced search functions and limiters. Search results should be evaluated based on currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. Effective reading strategies include having a clear purpose, skimming and scanning, and focusing on specific sections like introductions and conclusions. Taking notes should include reference details, paraphrasing and summarizing, and creating a personal glossary.

1. FIND
How to be a better searcher

2. Where?
• A thorough literature search means you need to look at a variety of sources:
• Books
» Library catalogue
» ProQuest Ebooks Central
• Journal Articles
» EBSCOHost
» ProQuest Central
• Websites
» Google Scholar vs Google
» Current and relevant websites such as: http://health.govt.nz and
http://www.arataiohi.org.nz/
KEEP
CALM
AND
DIG
DEEPER

3. Make a keyword search plan
• Synonyms
• Consultation, communication, conversation
• Collocations
• Intercultural
• Root words/ Word Families
• cultu*
• culture, cultures, cultural
• Strategy Strategies
• method methods methodology
• Antonyms
• Barriers, problems
• Subject terms, keywords
• Subject terms are created by experts
• Keywords are just taken from the text

4. EBSCOHost Databases
• How to get to it
• Which databases to use
• Why use the Advanced Search function
• How to narrow search results

7. Click on <Online databases>

8. Scroll down to <E> or <P>

9. Click on
<EBSCOhost >

10. Select the databases you want to search.
You can start by selecting all, but you could end up with too much information.
Choose databases in your area of study. You can select more than one.

11. Click on <advanced search>

12. Type your keywords and
click on <SU Subject Terms> <search> or leave
blank

13. Examine your results
Too many?
Use Limiters e.g.
last five-ten years,
full text
Peer reviewed

15. Evaluate your results
 Currency
 Relevance
 Authority
 Accuracy
 Purpose
Has it been quality-assured/
Peer reviewed?
Do you understand the
information being presented?

16. Scroll down to <E> or <P>

17. Click on
<Proquest Academic >

18. Type your keywords and tick all
boxes

19. Too many?
Use limiters or
Advanced Search

21. Evaluate your results
 Currency
 Relevance
 Authority
 Accuracy
 Purpose
Has it been quality-assured/
Peer reviewed?
Do you understand the
information being presented?

22. Go directly to the source
• Journal of Youth Studies

25. Click on <ebooks>

26. Proquest Ebook Central

29. Read
How to find gold in amongst the big words

30. How do you read best
• When it comes to reading – how to you do it?
• Do you read all the words?
• How do you use other clues/cues?
• How do you journey (read) through a novel, newspaper
article, etc

31. Academic Reading
• Starts with a purpose and often a question
• Only reads for that purpose or to answer the question the
reader has
• Does not read all sections and information
• Uses skimming and scanning
• Read for SEX
• Read for TOPIC
• Use people and devices to playback the reading of
statement/topic sentences

32. Reading Journal
Articles/Research Reports
• Know the genre and format
• Academic
• Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results,
Analysis, Conclusion
• Skim all sections but focus in on the sections that
answer your question or are about your purpose

33. The Golden Rule
If what you are reading does not relate to your
question or purpose – then it does not relate!

34. Your Turn

35. Taking notes
• Always start with grabbing the reference details and
write an APA reference
• Remember SEX/Topic
• Remember your purpose/question
• Quoting/Summarizing and Paraphrasing
• Make your own dictionary (glossary)

36. APA Referencing – Quick Points
• Citing is giving mana to the author, it also gives
whakapapa (history) to your ideas by acknowledging
those that have come before
• Citing occurs throughout the assignment
• Aim for, at least, one citation per paragraph
• As a beginning student it is often easier to write in an
active voice and use author (year) in the first sentence
of each paragraph

37. APA Referencing – Quick Points
• List sources in alphabetical order of the first author’s
last name in reference list
• Keep the order of authors (they are listed on the
article in order of importance)
• Always remember – what goes in italics is the spine
of the source
• Use a reference manager programme
• Use a reference list of an article to find sources

38. Your Turn

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