Venue: Student Learning Centre

Room 1.64, Central Library

The SLC offers free seminars to help students advance their study skills. These cover topics like research, referencing, and writing skills. They are held at 12pm, Monday to Thursday, in room 1.64, on the entrance level of the Central Library (next to the Noel Stockdale Room). See the full schedule for Semester 1, 2013 below.

 

Some lunchtime seminars are also arranged into themed series, such as the Essay Writing, Grammar Booster, Maths Skills Booster and Research Skills series.  Students who attend all seminars will receive a personalised certificate.  

 

Seminars for research students are held on Thursday and are aimed at developing their higher level academic skills.   

 



  Lunchtime seminar 1_2013 (PDF 135KB)

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Maths Skills

Booster Series

Academic

Writing Series

Grammar

Booster Series

Research

Series

for Honours & Masters students

 

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

March

18

Introductory maths

refresher

19

Analysing & planning your assignment

20

Nouns & articles

21

The process of research

25

Straight lines

26

Academic integrity & referencing

27

Verbs & tenses

28

Developing a research

proposal

April / May

1

(public holiday)

2

Essay structure

3

Subject verb agreement

4

Writing a literature

review

8

Solving &

rearranging equations

9

Paraphrasing &

quoting

10

Word forms

11

Methods of data

collection

Mid–semester Break

29

Logarithms &

exponents

30

Editing &

 proofreading

1

Punctuation

2

(N/A)

May

6

Introductory

statistics

7

Critiquing a research

article

8

Constructing an

argument

9

Progressing your

argument

13

Endnote (part 1)

14

Report writing

15

Oral presentations

16

Thesis writing for the 

humanities & social sciences

20

Endnote (part 2)

21

Case studies

22

Exam preparation

23

Thesis writing for the

sciences