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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

306470 (v.5) MT 505 Petroleum Technology (Research Methods P605)

Area: Department of Petroleum Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 35.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Workshop: 1 x 40 Hours Once-only
Syllabus: Shell orientation. What is research? What is applied research? Flow of research and information. Analysis of a research paper. Recording citations, citing references. Shell information resources. Differentiating between sources. Locating resources. Database searching. Internet searching. Keeping track of searches. Types of information. Analysing the problem. Choosing a database. Author v subject searching. Structuring the search. Alternative search strategies. Searching for books & journal articles. Recording citations (using shared folder). Shell information resources. Alternative internet search engines. Patent searching. Ethics, Confidentiality, Plagiarism, Copyright. Theses and report literature. Bibliographic management software.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 030399 Process and Resources Engineering not elsewhere classified
Result Type: Pass/Fail

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Shell Learning Centre Study Period 2 Y        
2012 Shell Learning Centre Study Period 3 Y        
2012 Shell Learning Centre Study Period 4 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External