Online Learning Skills Resources
- Orientation
Valuable advice about university life and study.
Adjusting to Uni | Budgeting | Disability Resources | Student Association | Finding a Mentor (Townsville) | Finding a Mentor (Cairns) | Getting Started with LearnJCU(ppt) | Communicating with LearnJCU(pdf) | Submitting Assignments in LearnJCU(pdf)
- Organisation
Practical tools and strategies to improve organisation.
Getting it Together (Time Management) | Mind Mapping | Studying for Exams | Exam Tactics
- Learning
Modules to help you understand how you think and learn.
Learning Styles | Thinking about Thinking (Critical Thinking) | Studying Smarter not Harder | Effective Reading
- Lectures and Tutorials
How to get the most out of lectures and tutorials.
Note-taking | Tutorials | Oral Presentations
- Academic Writing
Help with the process of producing well structured academic writing.
Essay Writing:The process | Academic Writing Tips | Model Assignments: Samples and Templates | APA Referencing | JCU Library Guides to Referencing (all styles) | Scientific Reports | Summarising, Paraphrasing & Avoiding Plagiarism (pdf) | Submitting Assignments in LearnJCU(pdf) | Editing Your Writing (pdf) | A visual guide to essay writing: How to develop and communicate academic argument (2.6MB booklet, pdf) | Analysing the question |
- Types of Academic Writing
Downloadable guides (pdf) that assist you to produce specific types of academic writing.
Literature Review - Guidelines | Literature review - Criteria and structure | Critical Review - Guidelines | Critical Review - Criteria and structure | Critical Essay - Guidelines | Critical Essay - Criteria and structure | Critical Essay Planner | Research Proposal | Annotated Bibliography - Guidelines | Annotated Bibliography - Structure and style | The Lab Report - Guidelines | The Lab Report - Structure and style | Reflective Thinking and Writing | Report Writing | The Essay
- First Year Writing Podcasts and PowerPoints
Discipline specific writing tips from lecturers and postgraduate students.
Law(mp3) | Law(ppt with audio) | Community Welfare & Social Work(mp3) | Sociology(mp3) |
Nursing (ppt) | Business(mp3) | Business (ppt) | Psychology (pdf) | FAESS Writing (pdf) | History/Politics(ppt) | Science (ppt)
- Grammar and Writing
Web sites that provide practice to help you improve your grammar and writing.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ | http://a4esl.org/ | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/ Uni Learning Website
- Maths
Links to online maths sites.
http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/ | http://cstl.syr.edu/fipse/mathreview.html
