Skills for Learning An academic skills resource
Skills for Learning
Skills Themes
Resource Collections
Podcast
Our podcast series explores a variety of academic skills topics such as essay writing, plagiarism and statistics.
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Publications
Discover 'Quote, Unquote', our guide to Harvard referencing, and our series of Little Books, which cover a range of academic skills you will find useful during your time at university.
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Welcome to Skills for Learning
Skills for Learning is a collection of resources to support the learning and teaching of academic skills.
Developing your academic skills is an essential part of successful study at university and your future employability. Academic skills include the use of IT, numeracy, academic literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, working with others and research skills.
We also offer Skills for Learning workshops and appointments on academic communication, maths and IT skills.
Off-campus access: If you are accessing the site off-campus, you will be asked to log in using your user id and password from your student card. For more information, see our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Academic Skills Resources
Academic Communication
Learn about writing essays, dissertations and reports; how to reference your sources correctly; what plagiarism is; how to make a mind map; how to read more effectively; and what is meant by critical thinking.
Global Student
Learn about successful language learning; how to improve your cultural awareness; and how to cope with culture shock.
Learn about how to improve your academic IT skills; the meaning of technical terms in the IT glossary; and download IT self study booklets covering a range of topics, including Office 2010.
Learning and Study
Learn about the difference between formative and summative assessment; different methods of assessment such as exams; organising your study spaces; how to become a confident student.
Maths
Learn about how to improve your maths skills; how to calculate percentages; express proportions as ratios; use different types of charts; and test your maths skills.
Professional Skills
Reflection
Learn about why reflection is important in academic study; different ways of reflecting on your experience, such as critical incident analysis; or writing a reflective journal; and different models for structuring reflection.
Research
Resource collections
International Students
A collection of our website resources that are especially useful to our international students while studying here.
Postgraduate Students
A collection of our website resources that are especially useful to our postgraduate students while studying here.
Graduate Attributes
A collection of our website resources to help you explore the three Graduate Attributes you will develop through your studies at Leeds Beckett University.
What's new?
Find out about different methods of assessment, learn how to manage your studies independently and confidently.
Increase your self-confidence, motivate yourself, and learn how to give and receive constructive criticism.
Learn how to work effectively in a group, improve your time management, and identify techniques for creative problem solving.
Use this web-based app to help you plan your time to complete an assignment within a deadline.
Learn preparation and revision techniques for exams and different techniques to improve memory.
Understand what an executive summary is for and how to write one for your report.
Popular resources
An introduction to critical thinking at University. Learn how to analyse arguments used in sources and how to improve your own arguments.
Learn about the models and theories that you can use to help structure your reflective work.
Learn to analyse essay questions, to write your own questions and to plan, prepare and write essays using the appropriate style and presentation.
Learn about Belbin's team role theory, a number of other team development theories and assess the roles of members of your team.
Understand the four main mathematical operations, powers and the sequence in which operations should be tackled in calculations.
Find out about https://term-paper-writing-services.com that should be included when writing a report and the correct writing style that should be used.