Recommended tutorials
All my own work: exploring academic integrity – OpenLearn course
ll my own work: exploring academic integrity, is designed to help you build confidence in producing your own work for academic purposes. You will explore what plagiarism is and how to avoid it, and learn how and when to reference. The course also includes an interactive to work through, which will help you to identify the potential temptations and challenges you may face when working on assignments. By the end of the course you should have developed an understanding of what appropriate academic practice is and feel more confident in producing your own work for academic purposes.
Research Skills
Conducting a search strategy – All Aboard Higher Education
This interactive lesson introduces search strategies, and discusses how you might define a topic. Its aim is to “equip you with the skills needed to manage the volume, velocity and variety of data while distilling and refining your custom search strategy.”
A large part of your academic studies will be spent communicating your work and demontrating understanding of the topic through your writing. When feedback includes a comment on demonstrating your own voice, this is what is being looked for.
By putting effort into developing your academic writing skills, you are taking the opportunity to express the range of reading you have undertaken, and your critical analysis of that research.
Writing critically and structuring your essay: Academic Study Skills – OpenLearn course
This Open Learn course introduces techniques you can use to help your essays flow coherently and to make your arguments clearer and more persuasive.
Using your literature – Cumbria University
This interactive tutorial guides you through various examples of how to articulate your research within an academic essay.
Paraphrasing – OpenLearn course
Focus on the process of turning what you are reading into ‘your own words’, which is an essential skill at university.
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Summarising text – OpenLearn course
Learn how to summarise. Summarising is useful both when completing assignments and while studying.
After studying this course, you should be able to:
The difference between descriptive and critical writing – OpenLearn course
It is important that you understand the difference between descriptive writing and adopting a critical stance, and are able to show clear evidence of your understanding in your writing. Table 2 provides some examples of this.
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