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The Inquiry Process and SORVillanova Libraries

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InquiryThe action of seeking, especially for truth, knowledge or information concerning something; search, research, investigation, examination.

Oxford English Dictionary

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1 Framing

2 Investigating

3 Reasoning

4 Judging

5 Reflecting

SOR Inquiry Model

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Stages of InquiryCycle through each of these stages …

FramingIdentify and focus on the issue. Develop questions.

ReasoningAnalyse and evaluate the evidence.

JudgingSynthesise, make decisions and draw conclusions. Advocate a position.

ReflectingThink about what you have learned and act as a result of it.

InvestigatingInvestigate and research the issue.

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Inquiry is not a lock-step process

FramingInvestigatingReasoningJudgingReflecting

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You must supply evidence demonstrating your progression through each stage of the inquiry process

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Require-ments

Quality Note Taking• Develop

questions• Research often

leads to the formulation of more questions

• Research informs opinion

• Use the template for your research note-taking

Essay/Report• Aim to produce

academic / scholarly work

• Consider all views• Where do you

stand?• Substantiate your

position with the use of citations

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Academic Integrity: Why bother?

“Plagiarism is the act of misrepresenting as one’s own original work the ideas, interpretations, words or creative works of another.”

(University of Queensland, 2012)

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QUT policy on plagiarism

According to QUT (2012), plagiarism is cheating and is regarded as grounds for failure, suspension and expulsion.

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Upload of drafts/assignments

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‣ Assignments submitted through Turnitin

Matches: your work against that of othersand returns a % similarity.

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52%similarity to other works on the www (includes all assignments submitted by students from around the world).

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✓ quote someone’s actual spoken or written words

✓ use someone’s ideas/opinions/theories

✓ use statistics, graphs, drawings

How can you avoid plagiarism?Acknowledge when you:

✓ paraphrase someone else’s work.

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• Honest practice• Give credit where it is due• Acknowledge the intellectual efforts of

others• Research is about drawing upon the

efforts of others• How does their work inform yours?

What is academic integrity?

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Formatting in-text citations using Harvard

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Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

A recent report (Queensland Health, 2010) into the successful implementation of …

Queensland Health (2010) recently reported on the successful implementation of …

“The experiments prove conclusively that …” (Queensland Health, 2010, p. 130).

Queensland Health (2010, p. 130) report that “[t]he experiments prove conclusively that …"

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AcademicIntegrity

Build yourcase

Acknowledgethe efforts of others

Honesty

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You demonstrate Academic Integrity when you exhibit honesty, respect, fairness and trust, and act in a responsible manner when undertaking academic activities.

(Queensland University of Technology, 2012)