Online resources
Adding up: describing data and choosing a statistical test
This resource will explore the methods and descriptives you can use to describe your data. It will also show you how to select appropriate statistical tests and find them in SPSS.
- Duration: 15 mins
- Format: Online tutorial
Adding up: introducing SPSS
This resource explores some of the key features and interfaces of SPSS, which you can use to generate reports, charts, descriptive statistics and analysis.
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Adding up: introduction to statistics
This resource will give you a basic introduction to statistical terminology, charts and data types. It will also give you advice on how to organise your data to make it easier to analyse and present.
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Dissertations: choosing your topic
This resource focuses on choosing a topic for your dissertation.
It will take you through the key elements of the early stages of your dissertation such as writing your research question and the objectives for achieving it.
- Duration: 20 mins
- Format: Online tutorial
Dissertations: planning
This resource will highlight some of the key stages in planning to write your dissertation. It will also highlight some useful tools to help you along the way.
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Dissertations: the A-Z of literature reviews
This resource will give you an introduction to literature reviews. It will also give you advice on what a good literature should include, and how to prepare for writing your literature review.
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Get a grip: understanding your task
This resource takes you through the process of analysing your assignment task to ensure that you're clear about what you're being asked to do, giving you some useful techniques to ensure that your work remains focused on directly addressing the question at hand.
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Note making: capturing what counts
This resource looks at the purposes and contexts in which you make notes. It also provides an overview of different note-making techniques and which purpose theses techniques are most effective for.
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Format: Interactive guide
Original thinking allowed: avoiding plagiarism
This resource explores some of the issues surrounding academic integrity, providing you with techniques to help you to avoid plagiarism when referring to the work of others and to add your own voice into your work.
- Duration: 20 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Planning ahead: making your search work
This resource explores the process of planning a search, highlighting some techniques you can use to refine your search to help you to get a manageable number of high-quality, relevant results to use in your work.
- Duration: 20 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Podcast: 12 tips for successful revision
Present like a pro: planning your way to success
This resource takes you through the process of planning your presentation, giving you some useful techniques to ensure that your presentation remains focused on the requirements of your task and directly addresses the topic you're covering.
- Duration: 20 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Present like a pro: the art of delivery
In this resource we will explore what makes a good presenter and how can you use this to become a more confident when presenting. These techniques will enable you to deliver your presentations in a way that will make your audience sit up and take notice!
- Duration: 20 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Present like a pro: visual victory
This resource outlines different visual tools you can utilise to create visual aids for your presentation. It explores the types of visual aids you can use and what to display on screen. It will give you some inspiration you can use to design your own slides.
- Duration: 20 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial
Report writing
This resource explores key elements of producing a written report. Including, structure, purpose, language and referencing; It highlights important considerations to help you write clear and concise reports.
- Duration: 30 mins
- Format: Online tutorial
Start to finish: Dissertations
These resources will take you through how to plan, research and choose a topic for your dissertation. They will help you to produce a well planned, researched dissertation that will hold your interest and the interest of your reader.
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- Format: Interactive guide
Start to finish: present like a pro
These resources will take you through how to plan, design and deliver presentations. They will help you to produce a well-structured, coherent presentation that fulfills your brief, is visually appealing and is engaging for your audience.
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- Format: Interactive guide
Start to finish: Referencing
This set of resources will show you how to reference different types of sources in your assignments. It will help you to cite, paraphrase and manage your references using tools such as EndNote, Endnote online and Mendeley.
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- Format: Interactive guide
Start to finish: revision
This set of resources will take you through the revision process from start to finish. It will help you to prioritise your revision effectively.
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- Format: Interactive guide
The big picture: achieving your academic goals
This resource will encourage you to consider your long-term academic goals by putting your studies into the broader context of your continued personal development.
It will help you to identify and prioritise the steps you need to take in order to achieve these goals.
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Format: Interactive guide
What's the big idea: developing and organising your argument
This resource outlines a five-step technique you can use to help you to identify what your main arguments are, and to organise your ideas into a coherent structure.
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Format: Online tutorial