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• Handy tips
• Assessments
• Attending lectures and seminars
• Essay writing
• Planning your future
• Presentations
• Revision

• Learning games
• Studying at a higher level
• Time management
• Understanding memory
• Your learning style
  
• MP3s

• Personal development planning
• About personal development planning
• Priorities and opportunities for personal development
• Making the right choices
• Personal qualities
• Personal records
• Applying for jobs
• Structured reflection
• Useful resources

• Student Life
• Starting university
• Extra-curricular activity
• Finance
• Getting help
• Problems encountered in the early days
• Socialising
• Your first weeks at university
• International students
• Activity
• Asking questions in lectures
• Evaluating your work
• Improving your writing
• Listening to lectures
• Speaking in tutorials
• Understanding lecturer feedback
• Useful resources
• Postgraduate students
• Analysing data and thinking about findings
• Carrying out a literature review
• Choosing appropriate research methodologies and methods
• Drawing up a draft proposal
• FAQs
• First stages of research
• Research skills audit – are you ready for this?
• Useful resources
• Writing up your thesis
• Your supervisor
• Mature students
• Being a mature student
• Mature students’ groups
• Networking
• Seminars
• Socialising
• The Mature Student’s Guide to Writing – activities
• Time management
• Using your own sources

• Study skills
• Exams
• Exam techniques
• Revision strategies
• Learning strategies
• Effective study strategies
• Getting support
• How to get good marks
• Independent study
• Learning from lectures
• Memory
• Motivation
• Organisational skills
• Reading strategies
• Research strategies
• Time management
• Personal effectiveness
• e-Learning skills
• IT Skills
• IT Skills for successful study
• Making choices
• Presentation skills
• Research using IT
• Working with others
• Writing
• Essay writing
• Essay writing: FAQ’s
• Essay writing: interpretation of the question
• Essay writing: MCQ’s
• Essay writing: planning
• Essay writing: putting pen to paper
• Essay writing: research
• Essay writing: revision
• Making notes
• Referencing and plagiarism
• Writing skills
• Thinking
• Creative thinking skills
• Critical and analytical thinking skills
• Problem-solving skills

• Subject areas
• Studying business
• Business research
• Learning from case studies
• Professional writing
• Useful resources
• Studying economics
• Introductory texts
• Why study economics?
• Useful resources
• Studying English
• Language and linguistics
• Literary terms
• Practical criticism
• Studying novels
• Studying plays
• Studying poetry
• Study trail analysis
• Useful resources
• Studying foreign languages
• General guidance on learning language
• Learning a language
• Practice your reading and writing
• Useful resources
• Studying history
• Evaluating historical information on the web
• Glossary
• Writing history
• Useful resources
• Studying maths
• Advice on solving problems
• Advice on using examples of ideas
• How do you view mathematics?
• Useful resources
• Studying modern drama
• A step-by-step guide to studying a modern play
• Director’s theatre
• Into the workshop
• Modern drama quiz
• Useful resources
• Workshop ideas
• Studying nursing and health
• Useful resources
• Studying philosophy
• Reading philosophy texts
• Useful resources
• Writing a philosophy essay
• Studying politics
• Political concepts
• Useful resources
• What is politics?
• Studying psychology
• A leisure reading list
• Psychology book reviews
• Reading psychology texts
• The principles of writing in psychology
• Tips for teachers and lecturers
• Useful resources
• Studying science
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Studying programming
• Studying the built environment
• Writing for engineers
• Writing in science and technology
• Useful resources
• Studying statistics
• Basic format of hypothesis test
• Exercises
• Hypothesis test 1: an experiment on telepathy
• Hypothesis test 2: the shuffle test
• Testing hypotheses
• The interpretation of hypothesis tests
• Useful resources
  
• Useful resources