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Academic Skills Workshops, February – March 2015

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A series of study skills workshops begins on 24th February and runs over five weeks.

These sessions are suitable for all students.  Booking isn’t required; just come along.

Each session covers a self-contained topic, so don’t worry if you can’t attend all of them.

Updates will be posted on the Learning Success blog: tiny.cc/learningsuccessblog

Materials used in the sessions (e.g. Powerpoint presentations) will be posted on our Moodle module: tiny.cc/learningsuccess

For further information about any of the sessions:

Moodle: tiny.cc/learningsuccess

Email: academiclearningsupport@city.ac.uk

Phone: 0207 040 0246

week commencing Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays Fridays
23rd Feb Presentation skills for CASS students (1.00 – 1.50pm, AG07) Report writing for science, technology & engineering students (1.00 – 1.50pm, C320)
2nd March Dissertation structure & contents for SASS students (1.00 – 1.50pm, AG07) Essay writing for humanities, social sciences, health, business & related disciplines (1.00 – 1.50pm, AG08) Literature review dissertations for health students: making your critical argument (1.00 -1.50pm, A109)
9th March Time management (1.00 – 1.50pm, AG07) Research terminology part 1: do you know your Hawthorne effect from your stratified random sampling?(1.00 – 1.50pm, AG08) Note-taking for law students(1.00 -1.50pm, A109)
16th March Critical thinking (1.00 – 1.50 pm, AG07) Research terminology part 2: do you know your placebo from your polytomous variable?(1.00 – 1.50pm, AG03) Revision strategies(1.00 -1.50pm, A109)
23rd March Avoid procrastination in your revision(12.30 – 2pm, A109) From anxiety to calm in your revision(12.30 – 2pm, A109) Using free mind mapping software for revision  (1.00 – 3pm, AG24a)The first hour of this session will be mostly theory-based, whilst the second hour will give students a chance to practise using the software, with tutor support. Memory techniques for revision(1.00 – 1.50pm, A109)

 

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