Skills for Success / Academic Skills / The Basic Steps in Doing an Assignment
Academic assignments usually need you to do research into what other people have discovered about your topic. So, in this third step, you will need to know:
Each subject has its own Subject Guide to help you do your research. These Guides have resources for researching your assignments, referencing, training and how to get help from a librarian.
You can find the link to your Guide on the Subject Guides homepage.
The Library also has a very complete guide showing you how to find and use sources, here: Literature Searching
Some sources are better than others, so you should try to use the best ones. When you are trying to decide which sources you should use, consider these points:
The Library has a guide to help you select sources here: Evaluating Resources