Academic Skills Documents and Guides

We have documents available on a wide range of topics to help you develop the essential academic skills you need to succeed.

• Student Guide to Information Services (PDF, file size: 607.68KB)

Guides to support your assignments

• Searching for information: hints and tips (PDF, file size: 23.67KB)

• Evaluating information on the web (PDF, file size: 24.21KB)

• Study Skills Fact Sheets - a wide range of short guides to help you plan, research and write up your assignments.

• Turnitin - Documents and training from the Turnitin website

• RefWorks Quick Start Guide

• A students' guide to copyright

PebblePAD guides

• PebblePAD: Introduction (PDF, file size: 22.78KB)

• PebblePAD: Creating a webfolio (PDF, file size: 631.31KB)

• PebblePAD: Editing a webpage in a webfolio (PDF, file size: 69.63KB)

• PebblePAD: uploading a file (PDF, file size: 94.2KB)

• PebblePAD: Learning profiles (PDF, file size: 107.44KB)

• PebblePAD: naming conventions (PDF, file size: 23.49KB)

• PebblePAD: submitting to a gateway (PDF, file size: 153.23KB)

• PebblePAD: creating a web log (PDF, file size: 124.16KB)

IT user guides

• Microsoft Office User Guides

  • Word

  • Excel

  • PowerPoint

  • Outlook (PNG, file size: 87.17KB)

  • Publisher

• Outlook from home