About Skills@Cumbria
Support is available for the following three areas:
Academic skills, Digital skills and Library and information literacy skills.
See below for examples of the topics covered in each area.
What are Academic skills?
• Academic writing from first-year to postgraduate level
• Essay structure and organisation
• Critical thinking, reading and writing
• Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
• How to use Turnitin and interpret an originality report
• Writing a literature review
• Dissertation writing
• Postgraduate writing
• Exam revision and preparation
• Presentation structure and delivery.
University students with specific learning difficulties can arrange to have screening and assessment of their needs undertaken in order to identify their eligibility to specialist tuition, concessions in assessments and examinations and other support.
What are Digital skills?
What are Library and Information Literacy skills?
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Introducing library services
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Using the library catalogue
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Identifying different kinds of information
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Planning a search strategy
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Learning about search tips
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Searching ebooks
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Searching ejournals
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Critically evaluating journal articles for your assignment
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Critically analysing websites for quality
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How to reference using Cite them right and how to use information legally
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How to use RefWorks the electronic referencing system.
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