The Student Learning Centre:

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]
  • Diagram [.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

• Skills for ESL and International Students

Why we do it series

Why write essays? [.pdf]

Why is plagiarism so wrong? [.pdf]

Why do we learn?

International students

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