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The Student Learning Centre:

Tip Sheets on doing assignments

How to do it series

Planning your studies

  • Getting Organized [.pdf]
  • Time Management [.pdf]
    • 12 week planner [.pdf]
    • weekly planner [.pdf]

Understanding your studies

  • Critical Thinking: Getting Started [.pdf]
  • Critical Review Language [.pdf]
  • Improve your Reading of Academic Texts [.pdf]
  • Mind Mapping [.pdf]
  • How to Write a Summary [.pdf]
  • Making Notes in Lectures [.pdf]

Writing your essays

  • Analysing an Essay Question [.pdf]
  • Planning Your Essay [.pdf]
  • Drafting Your Essay [.pdf]
  • Alternative Essay Structures [.pdf]

Developing your speaking skills

  • Oral Presentations [.pdf]


 

Referencing your work

  • Principles of Referencing [.pdf]
  • Paraphrasing & Referencing [.pdf]
  • Quoting & Referencing [.pdf]
  • How to Cite References [link]
  • Writing from Sources [.pdf]
  • Avoiding Plagiarism [.pdf]

Improving your assignments

  • Editing & Proofreading Essays

Doing your science assignments

  • Reading a Scientific paper [.pdf]
  • Scientific Laboratory Reports [.pdf]
  • Scientific Writing

Maths topic sheets

  • Units [.pdf]
  • Scientific Notation [.pdf]
  • Significant Figures [.pdf]
  • Ratio and Proportion [.pdf]
  • Logarithms [.pdf]
  • Review of Number [.pdf]
  • Graphing [.pdf]
  • Working with Formulas [.pdf]

Literacy and Language

Why we do it series

  • Why write essays? [.pdf]
  • Why is plagiarism so wrong? [.pdf]
  • Why do we learn?

International students

Would you like to make your university learning experience more enjoyable? Please see the excellent videos produced by the Queensland University of Technology, International College.

TipSheets