Academic writing
- Improve your academic style: Discover how to write in the appropriate way and follow correct academic conventions in your assignments.
- Kickstart your assignment: Discover how to begin the assignment-writing process by analysing your title and creating a content outline and plan.
- Perfect paragraphs: Learn how to write great paragraphs, the foundation of all clear and compelling academic writing.
- Summarising and paraphrasing: Discover how to write critically and safely about the ideas of others in your work.
- Power introductions and conclusions: Learn how to make an excellent first and final impression in your assignment with a powerful introduction and conclusion.
- Reader-friendly writing: Learn some helpful hacks to make your writing ‘flow’ and guide your reader clearly and easily through your work.
- Report writing under the microscope: Examine the structure and style of a lab report in order to hone your scientific writing skills.
- Edit and proofread like a pro: Refine your editing and proofreading skills to polish your work, avoid embarrassing errors, and make an overall positive impact.
- Speculation in writing: Discover how to incorporate speculation in your writing to strike the right balance between potential scenarios and evidence-based claims.
Other study and employability skills
- Email and communication etiquette: Learn the do’s and don’ts of communicating by email at university and beyond.
- Listening in lectures: Develop sound listening techniques to ensure you get the most out of live and recorded lectures.
- Knowledge, truth and bias: Explore the dynamics of knowledge production and the challenges of bias in today's information era.
- Using feedback for success: Explore how to use your tutors’ valuable feedback to upgrade your academic performance.
- Presentation skills: Over two sessions, practise how to design and deliver effective and engaging presentations at university and in the workplace.
- Public speaking: A series of workshops to help you overcome your fears of speaking to audiences in academic and professional contexts.
- Referencing refresher: Recap on how to reference sources correctly to avoid plagiarism and be an ethical scholar.
- Strategic reading and note-taking: Explore a range of smart techniques to help you read and process large quantities of materials efficiently.
- Improve your critical thinking: Gain insight into how arguments are structured so you can develop practical ways to criticise academic literature.
- Participating in seminars: Get some top tips on how to communicate your ideas clearly and listen actively so you get the most out of a seminar discussion.
- Taking part in meetings: Discover how workplace meetings work and what you might be expected to do before, during and after a meeting.
- Group work essentials: Develop vital teamwork skills and learn how to enhance communication, collaboration, and problem-solving for group assignments.
- Getting exam-ready: Explore tried and tested techniques to stay calm and positive throughout the exam season.
- Devising your exam strategy: Learn how to approach exams strategically and how to tackle different question types.