CAWK Academic Resources

• 【Read】Tips for organizing previous research and reading papers
• 【Collect】Find and collect resources and materials
• 【Collect】Purpose and method, tools of organizing resources
• 【Research】Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods for Psychology and Linguistics
• 【Research】What is Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Psychology and Linguistics?
• 【Research】Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods for Psychology and Linguistics, Collection and Analysis of Qualitative Data
• 【Research】What is Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology?
• 【Research】Fundamentals of corpus usage
• 【Research】Get the whole picture!
• 【Write】Citation
• 【Write】Academic Writing　The Basics of Writing Reports and Papers
• 【Write】Introduction to Office 1: How to use Words and useful functions
• 【Write】Introduction to Office 2: How to use PowerPoint and presentation
• 【Write】Methods of Argumentation in Reports

Conducting online research

Find & Collect References

• Tips for Improving Literature Search Skills: Recommended Databases
  Tips provided by UTokyo Komaba library. The problems and solutions, mainly library services, are introduced according to the search process for academic writing.
• UTokyo OPAC
  *The system for searching the online union catalog database of books and journals held in the UTokyo. It can be used to search all journals as well as books acquired by the UTokyo in 1986 and after.
• EBSCOhost
  *E-databases of UTokyo. A platform where you can search multiple databases. We recommend you to use it when you want to search for books, journal articles, reviews, or various other media.
• CiNii
  *A database service which can be searched with academic information of articles, books, journals and dissertations. It enables you to search not only information on academic articles but also a lot of information related to research activities such as research data and project information.
• JSTOR
  *A digital library provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
• J-STAGE
  *A platform for scholarly publications in Japan. Titles on J-STAGE cover a wide variety of academic fields, from natural sciences to humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary areas.
• Google Scholar
  *It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From here, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
• Google Books
  *Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. (Full access to E-books are only available to some.)
• ResearchGate
  *It is convenient for searching and browsing papers and data sets. (Registration is required to use.) It is a social network service (SNS) for researchers, allowing them to register and share their own research papers and datasets. You can also ask questions about other research papers or accept and answer questions about your own research.
• Others : Database List (University of Tokyo Library System)

Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary
  *The definitive record of the English language, featuring 600000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1000 years of English.

• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
  Longman English–Japanese Dictionary

Deciding on a topic or theme

Pensado(A complication of essays written by students in the ALESA Program）

*You can get booklets at CAWK (View Only depending on the number of issues）

ALESS: A Collection of Student Papers

*You can get booklets at CAWK (View Only depending on the number of issues）

WRITE

Choose Your Expression

• The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
• British National Corpus (BNC)
• 中納言（Corpus Search Application）
  *A web application for searching Japanese corpus.
• 現代日本語書き言葉均衡コーパス（BCCWJ : Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese）
  *It contains approximately 100 million words of samples collected to give an overall picture of the contemporary written Japanese language.

Write Citation & References in Japanese

Write Citation & References in English

• How to Write an Annotated Bibliography

参考文献と引用クイックガイド (Quick Guide to References and Citations APA 7th Ver.)

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自分の考えと他人の考え：知の営みに参加するために (My Thoughts and Others' : To participate in the work of knowledge)

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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th Edition (2020)

*Only for reference at CAWK
https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition

OTHERS