Posted on March 5th, 2013 by Jacinta
Get into the habit of spending 12 hours per week study time on each of your units. Ensure you check your UNE email account 2-3 times a week (or forward it to another account you check daily – (http://www.une.edu.au/it-services/students/email/emailforwardvacmsg.php) Download your referencing guide via the Academic Skills Office
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Posted on February 26th, 2013 by Jacinta
Lectures commence for trimester 1 – 25 February, 2013 Get to know your study buddies – The Library and The Academic Skills Office Use the Vibe in MyUNE to tell us how you’re feeling about your studies. Join the Peer Support Program. If you would like a Peer Supporter (another student who’s already studying to [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2013 by Lisa
The Academic Skills Office will hold a number of writing workshops for students over the next couple of weeks. Monday 11 March, 5.30-7.30pm: Academic writing for postgraduate students – Off Campus Students: Are you a postgraduate research student? Do you have questions about the research or writing process? The Academic Skills Office will hold a [...]
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Posted on November 7th, 2012 by Jacinta
Get into the habit of spending 12 hours per week study time on each of your units Ensure you check your UNE email account 2-3 times a week (or forward it to another account you check daily – http://www.une.edu.au/it-services/students/email/emailforwardvacmsg.php) Download your referencing guide via the Academic Skills Office
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Posted on November 7th, 2012 by Jacinta
Lectures start for trimester 3 – 29 October, 2012 Get to know your study buddies – The Library and The Academic Skills Office Join the Peer Support Program Live off campus but have a local university library? Check out how to borrow from them http://www.une.edu.au/library/borrowing/other-libraries.php
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Posted on September 13th, 2012 by ED
Here’s a bunch resources from Counselling, the Academic Skills Office, Library and the Exams Unit about preparing for and getting the best from your Exams: FACT SHEET: Perform Well: Dealing with Examination and Performance Anxiety FACT SHEET: Concentration Tips FACT SHEET: Memory Tips WORKSHOP: Exam Preparation ONLINE WORKSHOP: Exam Strategies ONLINE WORKSHOP: Before the Exam ONLINE WORKSHOP: In the Exam FACT SHEET: Dealing with Exams FACT SHEET: Preparing [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2012 by ED
The Academic Skills Office will run the following workshop on campus (most suitable for international postgraduate students, but any postgraduate student is most welcome to register): 12/9/12 Academic writing 5-6.30pm Letters Room, Dixson Library. Students who are off campus and unable to attend should look at the ASO video resources at http://www.une.edu.au/tlc/aso/video/#item1. To register book into [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2011 by ED
Drumroll … this week’s Fact Sheet of the Week is ‘Critical Thinking’ – thanks to the lovely peeps over at the Academic Skills Office. You can download the PDF right here.
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Posted on March 14th, 2011 by ED
Here’s our Fact Sheet of the Week (Courtesy of the Academic Skills Office) – How to Write and Essay. Download the PDF right here.
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Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by ED
Here’s our Tip of the Week in the form of a fact sheet from the Academic Skills Office’s most excellent site: Formatting Your Essays.
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Posted on February 8th, 2011 by ED
A week or so ago we posted an alert to say the referencing standards were changing. It looks as tho the Guides for each School have now been posted – so jump on over to http://www.une.edu.au/tlc/aso/students/publications/referencing.php and check the new styles.
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Posted on January 28th, 2011 by ED
I’m not sure if I was aware of this, but you guys definately should be … From Semester 1 2011, UNE will be changing its referencing style requirements and the current UNE Referencing Style will no longer be in use. Each School will determine its preferred style of referencing.
The ASO webpages will be updated [...]
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Posted on May 24th, 2010 by rcutts2
New to UNE in Semester 2 or finishing your first semester? Looking for a bit of extra academic help and some useful hints & tips?? The Academic Skills Office is once again running our free 3 week online workshop…
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Posted on March 30th, 2010 by ED
We’re all in the midst of essays – writing, submitting and waiting for marks. It can be a pretty stressful time when you’re about to throw your first essay into the system and wait to see how it’s marked. But there’s plenty of help if you’re worried. We posted earlier in the year about the [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by ED
Last night, Frances and I (from the Student Support Team) were involved in a video conference into the (newly refurbished) Taree and Inverell Access Centres. We talked about some of the key parts of the UNE site that new students should know about. So for the benefit of everyone else, here’s the links we discussed: [...]
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