This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

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What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

Beware Wikipedia! It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
Don't believe everything you read.

Avoid Plaigiarism
That's using an author's work or ideas without referencing it (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

'New Titles Received' Lists   

Ethics & value perspectives in social work - Mel Gray & Stephen A. Webb (eds)

ISBN: 0230221459

This agenda-setting text explores a broad range of value perspectives & their impact on & contribution to social work thinking on ethics. Including new perspectives, such as Islam, & drawing on international contributors, this is essential reading for all social work students studying ethics & values

Evidence-based interventions for social work in health care - Marcia Egan

ISBN: 078903560X

The result of extensive systematic reviews, this book provides substantive in-depth knowledge of empirically based interventions for health conditions... outlines best practices for the psychosocial problems associated with the emerging chronic & major health conditions of the 21st century...

From the front lines : student cases in social work ethics - Juliet Cassuto Rothman

ISBN: 020578724X

Using the NASW Code of Ethics as a framework, From the Front Lines: Student Cases in Social Work Ethics is a collection of 30 cases that illustrate both common & kinds of dilemmas & more unusual ones to provide students with a framework for recognizing, defining & solving ethical dilemmas.

Introduction to Social Work - Lionel Nicholas, John Rautenbach & Margie Maistry (eds)

ISBN: 0702177687

Deals with a range of issues, from the early history of social work, to working with individuals & small groups in contemporary debates around economic policy & macro level intervention, management, administration & research. It also covers youth at risk, HIV/AIDS, child sexual abuse & addiction as particular fields of practice.

Older people, ageing & social work: knowledge for practice - Mark Hughes & Karen Heycox

ISBN: 1742370608

The reality of our aging population means all social workers need to be confident in working with older people. Social workers are engaged in ongoing practice with older people in a variety of contexts, from hospitals, aged care assessment teams & mental health services to employment services, housing services & rehabilitation services. Draws on theoretical, research, policy & practice knowledge to inform contemporary practice with older people.

International Social Work - Mel Gray & Stephen A. Webb (eds)

ISBN: 1847875637

4 volume set covers a broad scope & range of international social work knowledge & research & contains seminal & landmark publications in social work with a particular emphasis on contemporary key publications to compliment earlier classic works. The readings combine empirical with conceptual articles that not only cover significant knowledge & key debates in the field but also show how international social work has developed through research

 

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