The SCIE101 students have their first assignment due on Sunday so there may be questions at the info desk or on AskLIVE. We’ve had some students coming in to EPS  today especially.

They have to write a 500 word critical reflection referenced in APA 7th Edition style and they need to find at least two sources (articles or books) through the library as well as cite their lecture material.

Their question is:

Discuss how your prior experiences influence how you might approach science.

Many of them are asking about “knowledge systems” which is referred to in the lecture material and the marking criteria. Searching “knowledge systems” and either science or their specific science discipline will usually bring up some relevant results. They can also search matauranga maori (mātauranga Māori) to get the Māori world view (knowledge system) perspective.

Another angle to take is trying to find sources to cite that talk about how their discipline conducts science as apposed to how it is down in other sciences. Eg. field experiments vs lab experiments etc. This is something the assignment also asks them to do. If they are doing more than one science discipline they can choose one or discuss more than one.

Students can be referred to their science discipline Subject Librarian –  Nick, Damian, John, Margaret or Brian. I’m mostly blocked out this week to cover drop-in questions so making an online appointment with me isn’t a good idea right now.

Cheers,

Nick