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Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University

Fourth Edition
by Tom Burns and Sandra Sinfield

Student Resources

  • Study Skills
  1. Introduction
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  2. How to Learn; How to Study
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  3. Make University Positive
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  4. How to Survive Academic Reading
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  5. How to Make the Best Notes
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  6. How to be Creative and Visual in Your Learning
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  7. How to be Analytical and Critical
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  8. How to be Reflective
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  9. How To Get on in Groups
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  10. How to Harness a Digital You
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  11. How to Make Sense of Your Course
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  12. Probably the Most Important Thing on Writing You’ll Ever Read
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  13. The Ten Step Approach to Better Assignments
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  14. How to Reference and Avoid Plagiarism
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  15. How to Write Great Essays
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  16. How to Produce Excellent Reports
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  17. How to Deliver Excellent Presentations
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  18. How to Run Your Own Seminars and Workshops
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  19. How to Write a Brilliant Dissertation
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  20. How to Revise for and Pass Exams
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  21. PDP and HEAR: Knowing Who You Are, Becoming Who You Want to Be
    • Journal articles
    • Web links
  22. How to Move On… and Get That Job
    • Journal articles
    • Web links

Web links

Web links to act as supplements to your studies and provide a broader scope of information.

Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

Leeds University tutorial on academic reading (60 mins)

Our interactive desk shows how to organise yourself for study – and reading

Our writing space has links to our NoteMaker resource; a free write tool – so that you can practise quick writing about what you read; referencing resources; and much more. Explore it and see how useful it can be to you

Critical reading towards critical writing

How to read an academic article

Internet Detective: tutorial on finding and evaluating information

Harvard referencing

Avoiding plagiarism: Tutorial (also available via writing site)

This allows for a messy, private online notemaking space

Or try Cornell notes

Or visual notes

Have you thought about making notes on Prezi?

Here's one constructed by some recent graduates

A student's thoughts on active reading – from an evolving essay

If you want to develop speed reading skills try the following resources:

  1. Short Burst Learning (accessed August 2011): to find your current reading speed
  2. Doyle, D. (2010) Glendale Community College: Self Pacing Methods for five useful methods (accessed August 2011

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