Academic Skills
Study more effectively by developing your Academic Skills such as essay writing, research, dissertation preparation, critical thinking, presentation skills and assessing your Digital Capabilities.
The most common problems for students include:
- Not understanding the purpose of the assignment;
- Locating appropriate academic sources;
- Coping with the volume of reading;
- How to paraphrase and use Harvard referencing;
- Critical thinking and analysis;
- Writing difficulties such as structuring assignments;
- The correct use of grammar and punctuation;
- Writing in an objective and conventional academic style.
The Academic Skills team offer excellent support to undergraduate and postgraduate students for resources and 1-1 support visit their webpage - gre.ac.uk/academicskills