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Suggested readings & links

Suggested reading lists are given to students as a recommendation for further reading on a topic. They are 'suggestions' and places to start to encourage independent reading and study.

Suggested reading for study skills

Ballard, B & Clanchy, J 1997, Essay writing for students, 3rd ed, Longman, Melbourne

Bonnett, A 2001, How to argue: A student’s guide, New York, Pearson Education.

Cotterill, S 1999, The study skills handbook, Macmillan, London.

Green, D & Campbell, R 2003, Literacies & Learners, 2nd edn Prentice Hall, Sydney.

Morley-Warner, T 2001, Academic writing is…: a guide to writing in a university context, 2nd edn, CREA Publications, University of Technology Sydney, Lindfield, NSW.

Online resources

The University of New South Wales, Online Study Skills Resources The Learning Centre
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/olib.html

Study Skills – Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au/current-students/study-support/study-skills/

James Cook University Study Skills
http://www.jcu.edu.au/learningskills/JCUPRD_034938.html

University of Technology Bell Assignment Writing Guide
http://www.bell.uts.edu.au/awg/academic

Suggested reading for the essay

Anderson, B 1991, Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, Verso, London.

Argus, J & Cox, S 2000, Queer in the 21st century: challenge and response, Gay and Lesbian Welfare Association, Fortitude Valley, Qld.

Blainey, G 2001, This land is all horizons: Australian fears and visions, ABC Books for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney.

Broome, R 2002, Aboriginal Australians: black responses to white dominance 1788-2001, 3rd edn, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest.

Carter, DJ 2006, Dispossession, dreams & diversity: issues in Australian studies, Pearson Education, Frenchs Forest.

Cashman, R 2002, Sport in the national imagination: Australian sport in the Federation decades, Walla Walla Press, Sydney.

Castles, S, Kalantzis, M, Cope, B & Morissey, M 1992, Mistaken identity: multiculturalism and the demise of nationalism in Australia, 3rd edn, Pluto Press, Sydney.

Cope, B & Kalantzis, M 2000, A place in the sun: re-creating the Australian way of life, HarperCollins, Pymble.

Dalrymple, R 2003, Continental drift: Australia’s search for a regional identity, Ashgate, Burlington.

Davis, M 2008, The land of plenty: Australia in the 2000s, Melbourne University Press, Carlton.

Davison, G, Dingle, T & O’Hanlon, S (eds) 1995, The cream brick frontier: histories of Australian suburbia, Monash Publications in History, Dept. of History, Monash University, Victoria.

Dixson, M 1999, The imaginary Australian: Anglo-celts and identity, 1788 to the present, UNSW Press, Sydney.

Dixson, M 1999, The real Matilda: woman and identity in Australia 1788 to the present, 4th edn, UNSW Press, Sydney.

Docker, J and Fischer, G (eds) 2000, Race, colour and identity in Australia and New Zealand, UNSW Press, Sydney.

Elder, C 2007, Being Australian: narratives of national identity, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest.

Fitzgerald, J 2007, Big white lie: Chinese Australians in white Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Hage, G, 2003, Against paranoid nationalism: searching for hope in a shrinking society, Pluto Press, Victoria.

Hage, G (ed.) 2002, Arab-Australians today: citizenship and belonging, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

Jamrozik, A 2004, The chains of colonial inheritance: searching for identity in a subserviant nation, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Lake, M 1999, Getting equal: the history of Australian feminism, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW.

McGregor, C 2001, Class in Australia, 2nd edn, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic.

McKenna, M & Hudson, W (eds) 2003, Australian republicanism: a reader, Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne.

Moran, A 2005, Australia: nation, belonging, and globalization, Routledge, New York.

Nicoll, FJ 2001, From diggers to drag queens: configurations of Australian national identity, Pluto Press, Sydney.

O’Regan, T 1996, Australian national cinema, Routledge, New York.

Reynolds, H 1996, Dispossession: black Australians and white invaders, 2nd edn, Allen & Unwin, N.S.W.

Stratton, J 1998, Race daze: Australia in identity crisis, Alken Press, Smithfield.

Tamis, AM 2005, The Greeks in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne.

Tavan, G 2005, The long, slow death of white Australia, Scribe, Victoria.

Thompson, E 1994, Fair enough: egalitarianism in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

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