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Events from the 01 February 2024 - 29 February 2024 Reset
Academic Skills: Writing dissertations - support from the Library
Preparing to write a dissertation can be daunting, especially when it comes to the literature review. The Library has extensive research collections to use for dissertations and provides guidance on how to use them effectively.
15 February 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Elvet Room, Bill Bryson Library
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Introduction to Discover
Discover is the library search engine for locating and accessing books, eBooks, journal articles, theses, media and images. Using Discover effectively will save you time and energy and help contribute towards an efficient search strategy.
16 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Reading and evaluating sources critically
This session will show you how to critically evaluate sources and how to synthesise the ideas of others into your own writing, whilst accounting for your own subjective bias.
16 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Elvet Room, Bill Bryson Library
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Using eBooks effectively
Most reading lists contain eBooks, and they offer some advantages over their print equivalents.
22 February 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Elvet Room, Bill Bryson Library
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Avoiding plagiarism in your work
What is plagiarism and why is it unethical? How can students avoid it? Find out how in this bite-sized academic skills session.
23 February 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Using AI to construct a literature search
AI is helping streamline the literature searching process. Find out how in this bite-sized academic skills session.
23 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections