For more tailored research, check out resources specific to Ontario education as well.
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Citations can be daunting, but we've got you covered!
For the most in depth look at APA citations, visit Purdue OWL's APA Citation Formatting page.
Our citation software, NoodleTools, is completely free to use through NU and will help you organize your citations and even create your Reference List for you!
Watch NU's NoodleTools YouTube playlist below to get set up!
EBSCOhost offers a variety of databases that index journals, periodicals, and other resources from several different academic disciplines. These databases range from general reference collections to subject-specific databases such as business, education, and the humanities.
Open Access scholarly articles, plus links to Niagara University holdings for paid articles. Search for scholarly literature within an easy to use Google interface.
ScienceDirect provides full-text access to more than 1500 peer reviewed journals in social & behavioral sciences, health & life sciences and physical sciences.
Interdisciplinary database with academic journals and ebooks in the fields of social science, humanities, science, technology and medicine.
Providing numerical evidence, or quantitative research, may be useful to support your position.
This page presents some of the main statistical resources for education research.
Use the guidance from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab. 'This guide is not meant to teach you statistics, but rather how to use statistics more effectively in your writing. This guide is designed to help you understand both how to write using other people's statistics, and how to write using your own statistics. "
