Learning at university: what's it all about? All students want to get good marks at university; but how do you do it? What do tutors expect from you as learners? How do you find success in your assessed work? This workshop-webinar, the first in a series from Library Services, will explore these topics. | Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11am Dr Chris Dennis |
Learning at university: what's it all about? | Thursday, 15 October 2020 2pm Dr Chris Dennis |
Being critical: making effective use of academic sources Students are often told by tutors ‘to be more critical’! But what do they mean? What are they referring to? In this workshop-webinar, we’ll be looking at the basic features of ‘being critical’ in thought and in writing. | Tuesday, 20 October 2020 2pm Dr Chris Dennis |
| Being critical: making effective use of academic sources | Thursday, 22 October 2020 1pm Dr Chris Dennis |
| Being critical: making effective use of academic sources | Thursday, 22 October 2020 5:30pm Dr Chris Dennis |
| Being critical: making effective use of academic sources | Monday, 2 November 2020 11am Dr Chris Dennis |
MetSearch: Discover quality academic sources
Find out how you can search for and access good quality academic resources to use in your assignments using the library search engine, MetSearch. You’ll find out why MetSearch is so much better for academic research than Google and discover how to search for academic books and articles, how to filter your results and save items for future use.
| Tuesday, 3 November 2020
11am
Jamie Finch and Nicola Herbert
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Defining academic writing: what is it and how do you start to do it? Academic writing is different from writing in other contexts. This workshop-webinar looks at 'why' and 'how' it is different. In exploring these questions, we'll look at writing in an assessment context. What are your tutors looking for in your writing? | Tuesday, 3 November 2020 3pm Dr Chris Dennis |
MetSearch: Discover quality academic sources
| Thursday, 5 November 2020
12pm
Rebecca Evans and Wendy Smith
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| Defining academic writing: what is it and how do you start to do it? | Thursday, 5 November 2020 2pm Dr Chris Dennis |
| Defining academic writing: what is it and how do you start to do it? | Tuesday, 10 November 2020 11am Dr Chris Dennis |
Beyond MetSearch: Getting subject specific This workshop will take you beyond MetSearch to show you the library’s vast range of journals, subject-specific databases and specialist resources that can really take your research to the next level. We’ll demo some of our favourite databases so you can see how to search them like a pro to get the most relevant resources.
| Tuesday, 10 November 2020
11am
Jamie Finch and Nicola Herbert
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Defining academic writing: what is it and how do you start to do it?
| Wednesday, 11 November 2020
5.30pm
Dr Chris Dennis
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Beyond MetSearch: Getting subject specific
| Thursday, 12 November 2020
11am Rebecca Evans and Wendy Smith
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| Defining academic writing: what is it and how do you start to do it? | Thursday, 12 November 2020 2pm Dr Chris Dennis |
Being critical: making effective use of academic sources
| Thursday, 12 November 2020
3.30pm
Dr Chris Dennis
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| Defining academic writing: what is it and how do you start to do it? | Monday, 16 November 2020 10am Dr Chris Dennis |
Referencing: why is it important and how do you do it? In this workshop-webinar, we'll look at author-date or Harvard referencing: why is referencing so important? When do you need to reference? How do you format references in the author-date / Harvard style? | Monday, 16 November 2020 11.30am Dr Chris Dennis |
Search like a librarian If you’ve ever wanted to search like a librarian, this is the workshop for you! This session will focus on planning your research, developing a search strategy and finding the best resources to locate the information you need. We’ll look at how to identify keywords and combine them effectively so you really can search like a librarian and think like a database!
| Tuesday, 17 November 2020
11am Jamie Finch and Nicola Herbert
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Search like a librarian
| Thursday, 19 November 2020
12pm Rebecca Evans and Wendy Smith
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| Referencing: why is it important and how do you do it? | Thursday, 19 November 2020 2pm Dr Chris Dennis |
Evaluating information: is it good enough to go into an essay?
When doing academic research it’s essential to evaluate the resources you find to ensure they’re good quality and worthy of being included in an academic essay. This workshop will help you to interpret database results, apply criteria for evaluating sources and identify what’s worth including (or not). We’ll look at what makes a resource academic and examine how to identify fake news.
| Tuesday, 24 November 2020
11am
Jamie Finch and Nicola Herbert
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| Referencing: why is it important and how do you do it? | Tuesday, 24 November 2020 5:30pm Dr Chris Dennis |
Evaluating information: is it good enough to go into an essay?
| Thursday, 26 November 2020
11am Rebecca Evans and Wendy Smith
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| Referencing: why is it important and how do you do it? | Thursday, 26 November 2020 2pm Dr Chris Dennis |
