Study Skills Resources from Sandra Sinfield

Sandra Sinfield provided these excellent resources via the LDHEN list:

On-line Literature Review on STUDENT READING:
http://litreview.pbwiki.com/

And blog at:
http://onlinelitreview.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

Notemaking
Mini-notemaking lecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1IHsPt_Nmg

Mini Buzan lecture on Mindmapping:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ

Our notemaking pages - use ‘the NoteMaker’:
http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/learningareas/notemaking/home.htm

NoteMaker - with additional topics imported:
http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/notemaker/noteMakerWithVid/noteTaker_2.html

Cornell generator - Generates templates to print off and make notes upon:
http://eleven21.com/notetaker/

Visual Literacy site ‘periodic table’ of pattern notemaking strategies to
support notemaking teaching
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#

Buzans’ site - with 7-step guide:
http://www.buzanworld.com/Mind_Maps.htm

Concept map tools website:
http://cmap.ihmc.us/

Really useful resources - see their WORKBOOKS - Notemaking especially
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/external/els/pdf/effectivenotemaking.pdf

Notemaking booklet from Exeter University
http://www.education.ex.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/note_taking_skills.htm

On using images in your learning:
http://rathergraphic.blogspot.com/

Quick guide to keeping references
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/studyskills/harvard/index.html

What to do in lectures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiv9GG_SzlI

Reading - also evaluating information
Our pages on student reading:
http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/learningareas/reading/home.htm

Critical reading towards critical writing
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/critrdg.html

On-line Literature Review on STUDENT READING:
http://litreview.pbwiki.com/

And blog at:
http://onlinelitreview.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

Active reading - from Evolving essay:
http://anessayevolves.blogspot.com/2007/02/active-reading.html

How to read a research article:
http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba/495/howtoread.html

How to read an academic article
http://www.lenmholmes.org.uk/students/oe209/how2read_a.htm

Internet Detective - finding & evaluating information
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/

For Summarising information:
http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/busdev/hq1001nc/ecdl/summarizing.htm

Referencing
http://slb-ltsu.hull.ac.uk/awe/index.php?title=Harvard_system_of_referencing
&
http://www.cite.auckland.ac.nz/

for Students:
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/infoservices/library/find/references/

Readability (NIACE research…):
http://www.niace.org.uk/development-research/readability

Avoiding plagiarism:
Staff website:
http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/connorj/plagiarism/Staff/

(Avoiding) plagiarism tutorial
http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/Plagiarism/

A resource introducing the concept of integrating evidence into own writing:
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/main.html

Especially useful is the section “Expressing your voice in academic writing”:
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/academic/4bi.html

Useful papers on plagiarism - especially in visual media
http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/casestudies.php