Our FYP class is specially design to help final year student in completing their final year project. This session will explained in details on information seeking and retrieval process via using the MMU’s library resources not limited to book but also to ebook and a wide range of electronic resources. This will improve the students capability in discovering the relevant information for their final year project.

Course Outline:

FYP CLASS BY LIBRARY
Target Audience: Final Year Student
Duration: 1 and half hour
Level: Advance
Learning Objective:

1. To guide the FYP student in information seeking process for literature review.
2. To educate the FYP students in using the information resources ethically through proper citation and references.
3. To help in producing a high quality FYP.
4. Towards information competent graduates.

PART A: INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC WRITING
PART B: DISCOVER LIBRARY SERVICES AND COLLECTION

• Library services and collections
• Discover Your Research Tools
• Retrieving Printed and Non-Printed Collection

PART C: SURVIVING IN INFORMATION SEEKING PROCESS (HANDS-ON)

• Overview of Information Seeking Process
• Developing Search Term: Expressing Your Information Needs
• Search Technique: Improving Search Precision
• Library Search Engine: Using the Right Tools (Discover not Googling)
• Evaluation Criteria: Sorting the Useful/Good Information

PART D: ETHICS: COPYRIGHT & PLAGIARISM
PART E: CITATION & REFERENCES: MENDELEY FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC/CITATION MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION (HANDS-ON)
PART F: GROUP ASSIGNMENT & CONSULTATION

Please click at the calendar link to look up for the latest schedule of FYP Class at your nearest library or contact your librarian for details.