Resource Pages

Integrating others’ research into your own writing is essential for your assignments. This Resource Page will help you learn effective strategies for integrating others’ research. 

Once you’ve searched and organized the literature for your assignment, the next step is to analyze each source you have selected and develop your own ideas for your review. This Resource Page provides you with strategies to analyze sources and develop ideas for your literature review writing.

You may ask: “Why are assignments so common at OISE instead of exams? Why do most OISE instructors use assignments to grade students?”. This Resource Page will help you navigate the process of understanding assignment instructions and planning.

Once you have gathered the relevant literature for your assignment and read it in detail, you need to organize key information and notes systematically. This Resource Page will help you find strategies and a system to organize your literature and notes.

Reflective writing encourages you to engage critically with various facets of both your learning and experiences. this Resource Page will provide an introduction to different types of reflective writing and their purposes.

There are several strategies for writing paragraphs depending on writing purpose, text type, and writer's preferences. In this Resource Page you will find some common strategies to organize ideas and draft paragraphs.

While an annotated bibliography can be a standalone assignment, at its core it is a foundational research tool. This Resource Page will help you learn the steps to write an annotated bibliography.

As you do your literature search, it is important to select only relevant and high-quality sources. This Resource Page will show you strategies and criteria to evaluate and select literature.

This Resource Page explains the concepts of Academic Integrity, Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism, shows examples and provides effective strategies to maintain academic integrity.