UNSW Academic Skills and Support
Student Life and Learning wants you to make the most of your university studies. Here you will find resources designed to help you develop and refine your academic skills. You can book consultations, register for workshops and courses and browse online resources. Featured support activities Resources Self-help guides to referencing, writing reports, grammar and more. Referencing assignmentsLearn how to reference your assignments using different styles such as Harvard referencing.PlagiarismDiscover what you need to know and how to avoid plagiarism.Writing skillsGuides for grammar, essay and assignment writing, postgraduate writing and more.Critical thinking This guide introduces the idea of critical thinking for university study.Reading and note-taking Lengthy reading lists can be frightening. Attend one of our workshops to develop your study, writing and conversation skills. See upcoming Workshops and Courses orRegister by logging in to the workshop Booking System.
From Rapunzel to The Little Red Riding Hood, Beloved Children's Classics as Minimalist Posters
by Maria Popova Visual hyper-distillation of iconic storytelling. As a lover of children’s books, especially classic ones with timeless wisdom for grown-ups, and an admirer of minimalist posters that distill complex stories or ideas in clean graphic elements, I am infinitely delighted by these hyper-minimalist takes on beloved children’s classics by designer Christian Jackson. Positively the most delightful children’s classic remix since The Little Red Riding Hood infographic animation. via Quipsologies Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month. You can also become a one-time patron with a single donation in any amount: Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter. Share on Tumblr
Tom March :: Thesis Builder - The Original Persuasive Essay Maker
ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students: find a topic (see example topic questions?)create a good thesis statement (see an example?)and generate an outline (see an example?) To use Thesis Builder, you'll need: a topic opinions about the topic reasons for your opinion and a main reason others might disagree Let's get started! What's the topic you want to write about? What's your main opinion on this topic? What's the strongest argument supporting your opinion? What's a second good argument that supports your opinion? What's the main argument against your opinion? What's a possible title for your Essay? Once you are happy with your thesis statement,you can crank out a quicky outline by clicking the button below.
Essay Punch Online: An Interactive Writing Tutorial
How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
From vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way science is communicated in academia, are a different format to newspaper articles or blogs and require a level of skill and undoubtedly a greater amount of patience. Here Jennifer Raff has prepared a helpful guide for non-scientists on how to read a scientific paper. My post, The truth about vaccinations: Your physician knows more than the University of Google sparked a very lively discussion, with comments from several people trying to persuade me (and the other readers) that their paper disproved everything that I’d been saying. It’s not just a fun academic problem. “Be skeptical. What constitutes enough proof? I want to help people become more scientifically literate, so I wrote this guide for how a layperson can approach reading and understanding a scientific research paper. Before you begin: some general advice 1. 2. 3. Here are some questions to guide you: 4.
Study Guides
Our goal is to help teachers better teach, and students better understand and ENJOY classic literature! We have heard from teachers requesting ideas on HOW to teach the literature we offer at our website. Specifically, we are developing select study guides for great works of American Literature and genres being studied by students in high school and middle school. Guides by Title, Guides by Genre, Useful Links, and Notes/Teacher Comments Each guide includes a link to the work, plot summary, character analysis, genres & themes, historical context, quotes, discussion questions, useful links, and notes/teacher comments. A Dark Brown Dog A Horseman in the Sky An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Song of Myself The Call of the Wild The Gift of the Magi The Lady, or the Tiger? The Little Match Girl The Minister's Black Veil The Monkey's Paw The Necklace The Pit and the Pendulum The Raven The Scarlet Letter The Story of An Hour More titles coming soon! Dark Romanticism Dystopian Stories
