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Student organised fashion show raises money for Cancer Research UK
Student organised fashion show raises money for Cancer Research UK.
Former student and author returns to Sixth Form after 25 years
Comic fantasy novelist Jonathan Eaves returned to the Sixth Form today to speak to students about his book Rude Awakenings.
Watch our Visual Arts & Media Promotional Film
This short film demonstrates the opportunities available for students studying Visual Arts and Media at Blackpool Sixth Form.
Students enjoy musical success
Students take a tongue-in-cheek trip back in time as they take to the stage with their performance of Oh What a Lovely War.
Students set for Jinx Fashion Show
Students have organised Jinx Fashion Show this Wednesday 3rd March at The Hilton Hotel in Blackpool.
Announcements
Pop Wannabe Live Final 2010 (Concert Hall)
11th March
Preparing for University Information Evenings for Upper Sixth Parents
17th March - 18th March
HE Information Evening for Lower Sixth Parents (NEW DATE)
25th March
Infotrac - How to become a FAB researcher!
Research is a skill you need to learn. You need to use the right search terms to find the information you need – and then you need to be able to tell whether your results are any good! Use this step-by-step guide to refine your research skills using Infotrac.
The Library subscribes to an online database – Infotrac - which contains all the articles from lots of magazines, which you can search through in the same way you search Google.
- Go to Athens - www.athens.ac.uk
and log in by clicking 'MyAthens'. If you’ve lost your Athens password, ask Helen in the Library to reset it for you. - Then click the ‘Resources’ tab to get your list of databases.
TIP: Change your password at this point if you like. - Choose Thomson-Gale databases: this opens Infotrac.
- Select the OneFile version to begin your article search.
- This is the basic search page: type in search terms as you would in Google.
Evaluating results:
- Scan the article titles which come up to evaluate if any are useful: what are you actually looking for?
- Data?
- Theories?
- Ideas?
- Quotes?
- Scan the citation: if the magazine title is Grocer's World, you can be sure it's not what you're looking for! Save yourself some time.
- In this instance you need to do a Publication Search – try ‘sociology’ as a search term. When the results appear, select the magazine you want to look through.
- Then do a Quick Search, and tick the 'within this publication' box.
- Now enter ‘fear crime’ as your search terms – is this more successful?
- Try the Subject Guide Search for the same stuff – does it get you more relevant results?
Found a good article?
WRITE DOWN THE REFERENCE if you plan to quote something from it. The reference is the article title in your search results.
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