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In this episode, Linda is joined by John and Carly for a quick tour around the new UWS Academic Skills website and a behind-the-scenes look into the making of it!
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In this episode, the UWS Academic Skills team offer their top tips on how to deal with a presentation task. They discuss how to structure your talk, the language you should use, incorporating references and how to deal with nerves.
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In this episode, Linda is joined by John, Carly and Mairi to discuss a useful tool that can help improve your academic writing- the Academic Phrasebank from the University of Manchester.
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In this episode, the Academic Skills team discuss the all important final phase of the assignment writing process- the proofreading stage.
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TextAid is a literacy tool available to all UWS students. In this short episode, the Academic Skills Advisers discuss their favourite functions within TextAid- have a listen and see if any of these might benefit you whilst working on your assignments.
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In this short episode, UWS Academic Skills Adviser John chats to host Linda about the PEAS model, which is a great way to go about organising your paragraphs in your writing.
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Ahead of the new term starting, UWS Academic Skills Adviser Carly tells host Linda about her top tips for getting back into good study habits in a shorter than usual podcast.
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In this mini-episode, UWS Academic Skills Adviser Mairi chats to host Linda about her top tips for academic writing. A great listen for both new and continuing students.
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In this episode, Linda and the team are joined by Andy Carrell, a current UWS student, to talk all things Academic Skills. Andy has studied at UWS since his undergraduate days and is currently embarking on his PhD. As a result, he is perfectly placed to talk about his experience of using the service and offer some great tips.
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In this episode, Linda, John, Carly and Mairi discuss Turnitin, which you will almost certainly use to submit assignments at UWS. They explain what a similarity report is and how best to interpret the results from that.
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In this episode, Linda, John and Carly talk about how to make group work work!
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In this episode, Linda, Carly and Mairi share their tips for how to study more effectively.
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Time to re-introduce ourselves given that there have been a number of changes since we last did an introduction podcast two years ago, above all new members of staff! As ever Linda hosts and is joined by Mairi, John, Carly and Christa to introduce themselves and talk about what the service can offer you in 2024.
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A special guest joins us for this episode. Dr Chloe Maclean is a lecturer at UWS and has written about the concept of 'imposter syndrome' in higher education. She joins Linda, John and Carly to discuss what this means and how to change this way of thinking.
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In this episode, Linda, Carly and John discuss OSCOLA, which is the referencing system that Law students at UWS use. Carly mentions the OSCOLA guide which can be found at www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola
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In this episode, Linda, John and Carly discuss the important matter of referencing (again!), looking particularly at how to use the book Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide.
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In this episode, Linda, Carly and John respond to a listener's request for an explanation of how to tackle assignment briefs with the words describe, analyse and evaluate in them.
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Our very good friends, the Careers Team join us to chat about their work at UWS. In this episode, Uuganaa joins Linda and Carly for this episode. To contact the Careers Team, please email [email protected]
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In this episode the academic skills advisers have a wee blether about using End Note at UWS
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Sarah joins the team to tell us all about the work the international team do to support students at UWS
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