Monthly Archives: September 2011
How to Ensure Living With Others Doesn’t Resemble Fresh Meat
Have you been watching Fresh Meat on Channel 4? How does it compare with your university experience? The show follows a bunch of Freshers who are stuck together in a house off campus because there isn’t enough room in the … Continue reading
Filed under accommodation, campus, communication, fresher, Freshers, Friends, group, lifeskills, welfare
Engaging With Digital Scholarship & Recognising the Purpose of Tools
Long post alert. As an additional post, this piece is part of the #change11 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). It’s part of Week 3, on digital scholarship. What is a MOOC? Here’s a video introduction: Onward! Books are tools. Visiting … Continue reading
Filed under academia, higher education, writing
Are you asking enough questions?
Last week, I talked about understanding questions as a whole and then breaking them down into parts. Both stages are in order for you to get as much meaning from a question as possible. Questions are important. You need to … Continue reading
Filed under academia, academic, communication, coursework, critical thinking, dissertation, essays, exams, research, Study, writing
EduLinks – 09 September 2011
Harvard Library outlines six reading habits for effective interrogation of texts. [Thanks for the link, @amcanning] More reading goodness. Paul N. Edwards on how to read a book academically [PDF: 284Kb]. It’s worth persevering. With all the reading you’ll be … Continue reading
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