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Featured Resource: A helpful book in the UVic Libraries for students in the life sciences:
Making sense: a student's guide to research and writing: life sciences
by Margot Northey and Patrick von Aderkas Call Number: QH304 N67 2019
Designed for students in the life sciences, this book outlines general principles of style, grammar, and usage, while covering such topics as writing essays and lab reports, conducting research, evaluating Internet sources, using electronic journal databases, documenting sources, and preparing résumés and application letters. [Print books can be recalled if they happen to be checked out to another patron. ]
the Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
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