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Other sources to your chosen theme should be prefarably scientific articles. Where you can find your '''external resources''': | Other sources to your chosen theme should be prefarably scientific articles. Where you can find your '''external resources''': | ||
* | * for the beginning you can look at [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] or do simple Google search - you will get texts of very different quality. You can use them for basic orientation only - please do not cite those with doubtful quality! | ||
* | * for your academic writing you may prefer [http://scholar.google.cz/ Google Scholar] | ||
* you might find out what offers your university library - some of the resources may be available online for you, e.g. from [http://www.isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge] or [http://www.jstor.org/ JSTOR] or some other scientific database. Here you can find reviewed journals. | |||
===Quality assessment=== | ===Quality assessment=== | ||
Would be very important at the certain stage. Sites about techniques of quality assessment (and not how to use them): | Would be very important at the certain stage. Sites about techniques of quality assessment (and not how to use them): | ||
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* Internet Detective online. 2007-04-10. WWW: < http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html >.You can try several quizzes to prove that your skills in evaluating sources have been already developed. | * Internet Detective online. 2007-04-10. WWW: < http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html >.You can try several quizzes to prove that your skills in evaluating sources have been already developed. | ||
==Technique of literature review | ==Technique of writing literature review== | ||
What we mean by the "literature review"? In this context, it is not just the list of references; but it is not also the thourough analysis of available resources, as Dena Taylor suggests. It is something in between - and following links will provide a guidance for writing your literature review. | What we mean by the "literature review"? In this context, it is not just the list of references; but it is not also the thourough analysis of available resources, as Dena Taylor suggests. It is something in between - and following links will provide a guidance for writing your literature review. | ||