Last week the Library ran 29 tutorials for SCIE101 with total attendance of around 600 students.

The have a small assignment due on Sunday 4th August so there might be quite a few questions for weekend staff about this assignment.

They have to write 500 words, excluding references, for their learning portfolio. The assignment is about their own identity as a scientist within the context of NZ. They are asked to link it to the discipline or one of their disciplines if they are doing a variety of Science courses.

Student’s I have seen are often looking at a particular aspect of their identity such as if they are male or female, ethnic background etc. This can be quite hard to search on.

They should refer to their course/lecture materials and ‘external sources’. They haven’t been told a number of sources but I would think finding at least a couple of academic sources outside their course would be a good idea.

They need to use APA for their references.