10 Essentials
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Welcome to Carey Baptist College
It is great to have you as a student. These 10 Essentials resources are designed to give you some practical help in your study. They will provide you with useful guidance on approaching theological study, using your time wisely, researching and writing assignments and a number of other helpful study skills that a student needs to do well at Carey.
Read these essentials carefully and refer to them often. You will find that they are a useful companion as you immerse yourself in your Carey studies.
I trust that you enjoy your study at Carey.
Rob Ayres
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This gives a brief introduction and overview of the Carey library and its resources.
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This gives help with understanding yourself and how best you study, and provides skills in time management, note-taking, and reading.
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This explains how to write an essay with attention to reading the question, doing the research, and planning the writing process. It also explores the style, structure, format, and content of an essay. There are sample assignments further down the page under a section titled: "Sample Assignments and Other Helpful Info."
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This is an essential guide to referencing using SBL. It helps with referencing books, commentaries, dictionaries, journal articles, internet citations, and Bible citations. There are also some abbreviations given for books of the bibles and commonly used series and dictionaries.
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These are links to how to reference different source materials (e.g. books, journal articles, using the SBL referencing guide).
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This explains how to submit an assignment correctly including information about formatting and adding a cover page, the word count, how to get an extension, what happens with late submission and failed assignments. There is also a guide to how to use the plagiarism report that Carey uses – Turnitin. This document also helps you to know where to see your assignment grades and view marker feedback.
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This is a guide for how to cite Greek and Hebrew words in an assignment. It gives information for undergraduate and masters level.
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This helps understand the importance of using gender neutral language in assignments, explaining Carey’s policy and procedure around this.
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This document gives good tips for how to improve your essay writing skills.
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This document covers all you need to know about the Pastoral Care Code and how to access help in this area.
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This is an example essay that has been written explaining how to write an essay. It also shows the cover page and how to format an essay with footnotes and a bibliography.
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This gives an example of how to write an introduction for an essay.
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This gives an example of how to write the body of an essay.
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This gives an example of how to write a conclusion for an essay.
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Sample level 5 essay (Exorcism) from Introduction to the New Testament course
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This resource has been put together by Jason A. Goroncy and he has kindly shared it as an aid for essay writing.
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A one-page cheat sheet to help with SBL referencing as you do your assignment.
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This gives an example of how to interpret and evaluate a passage of scripture.
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This document explains how to cite a scholar’s work correctly.
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This is an example of how to do an exegetical write up of a scripture passage. In this case Genesis 15 is used.
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Many of the resource videos from our First Steps course are available here. View them to learn more about the library, searching for books and articles, referencing, and more.
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Introductory guide to using CareyOnline (Moodle) for students
Please note that a recent upgrade to CareyOnline has changed its layout and format which means that the graphics within this document are no longer current. We will update the document as soon as possible.
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CareyOnline was upgraded prior to semester two 2024. This document walks you through some of the changes to help you navigate the platform.
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