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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.

Our NoteMaker – the what, why and how of making notes

Quick guide to keeping references

Mini-notemaking lecture

Mini Buzan lecture on Mindmapping

Buzan’s site – with 7-step guide

If you like making notes on video – try video ant

Cornell notes – more structured and organised

'Note book' site: on-line space for jottings, websites etc.

Concept map tools website

Prezi: a tool for making creative notes (and preparing presentations)

Check out Playing to Learn

Visual Literacy site: Check out different visual ways to represent information

Text to Movie resource

Visual notemaking using your iPad

What to do in lectures

Draw-to-learn

Avoiding plagiarism: Short tutorial

Don’t forget to organise your DESK

And that much notemaking is for our writing – check out our writing space

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