Academic Skills Workshops

Recorded Academic Skills Workshops

We want to support you in your research and writing! Below are a number of recordings of previous Academic Skills workshops , facilitated by our Academic Tutor (as part of the unit, AS003):

Research & Academic Writing

• Getting Ready to Study (Academic Expectations | Misconduct |Integrity Quiz |Getting Ready Checklist)
• Preparing Assessments (Analysing the question | Writing an outline |Paragraphing |Abstracts, introductions, conclusions)
• Finding Your Voice (Controlling your argument | Using sources as evidence | Fair use of sources)
• Improving Your Writing (Defining key terms | Information ordering | Academic register | Concise Writing)

Library Resources

• An Introduction to the Library  
• Online Research with Open Athens  (Finding quality journal articles | Finding and testing quality websites | Accessing databases such as EBSCO from home)

Referencing

• Referencing properly to avoid plagiarism (Paraphrase | Summarise | Voices | Bibliographies)
• Using Endnote for Referencing
• Not Endnote - Other referencing tools (Quick and Easy formatting Programs for Citations and References)

Exams

Before you take an exam at Morling you should read the STUDENT HANDBOOK and the Exam Information information on Moodle. You should always compare information provided from other Universities with the Morling Student Handbook and Guidelines for Assignments. Where there are differences - Morling's guidelines are the ones you should follow.

• Exam Preparation (Ordering your knowledge | Practice exams | Tips for productive study | Tips for writing exams)
• Open Book Exam Preparation

Self Care

• Developing Sustainable Study Habits (What does it mean to be 'grounded'? | How do you stay grounded under stress? (from Counselling experts))
• Managing Stress (Understanding stress and what to do about it (from Counselling experts))