Quick Guides
Quick Guides
Description: Tips and tools to understand university, manage and plan your studies.
Planners: To help you get organised.
Description: Tips and tools to maximise your learning - preparing for lectures, effective note-taking, group work and learning from feedback.
- Taking Notes
- Getting the Most out of Lectures
- Study Strategies to Help You Learn the Language and Concepts of Your Discipline
- Working in Teams and Groups
Using feedback to plan for improvement: access the accordion below called 'Reviewing and using feedback'.
Description: Tips and tools to understand, organise, and start your assignments & exams.
Description: Explanation of the common features of different SCU Assignments and exams.
- Abstract or Executive Summary
- Case Study
- Creating a Slideshow
- Critical Review
- Discussion Board Post
- Group Presentations
- Infographics Quick Guide
- Memo
- Oral Presentations
- Preparing for Vivas, OSCEs and other Oral Examinations
- Proposal
- Reflective Writing
- Report
- Report Writing Checklist
- Types of Exam Questions and How to Handle Them
- Writing an Annotated Bibliography (for APA 7th or Harvard)
- Writing and Planning an Essay
- Writing and Planning a Literature Review
Description: Strategies to understand, evaluate and synthesise academic material.
Description: Instructions on writing in an academic style and how to write specific sections of your assignments.
- Connecting Your Ideas - Linking Words
- Define and Use Concepts in Your Writing
- Formatting Your Assessment for Harvard
- Formatting Your Assessment for APA 7th
- How to Incorporate Evidence Into Your Writing
- How to Demonstrate Critical Judgement
- How to Write a Good Introduction
- How to Write a Good Introduction
- How to Paraphrase
- Planning and Writing Body Paragraphs
- Planning and Writing an Introduction
- Summarising and Paraphrasing
- Writing Analytically and Persuasively
- Writing Paragraphs
- Writing Conclusions
Evidence-rich writing
Description: How to effectively incorporate academic source material to demonstrate academic integrity.
Description: Tips and tools to proofread and edit your work before submission.
Using feedback to plan for improvement
Description: Tips and tools for understanding and using lecturer feedback to improve.