Active learning

•Quality not quantity

•Don’t kid yourself that you’re revising when you’re not!

•Find yourself a comfortable distraction free environment

•How do you learn best?

•Turn off your mobile / email / skype / Facebook!

•Give yourself regular breaks

•40mins max at one time

Active learning

•Be active with your revision

•You need to ‘notice’ to learn

•Engage with what you are studying

Active learning suggestions

•Folders/ notebook for each subject

•Note taking using your own words

• Use colour

• Test yourself

• Study with friends

•Review notes and combine/condense information from the book, lectures, and tutes

•Use mind maps

Academic writing & research

•Dos and don’ts

•Common reasons for loss of marks

•Research tips

Dos

•Start assignments early

•Understand the question

•Plan your writing

•ANSWER the question

•Include a thesis statement

•Present your ideas clearly

•Edit your work/get someone else to read it

Don’ts

•Use personal language or personalise

–‘I’, ‘you’ ‘we’

–In my opinion …, I think that …

•Use rhetorical questions

•Waste your words

–It has long been argued that …

•Go off topic or do what isn’t required

Don’ts

•Be dogmatic

–This proves that …

–This indicates/suggests/demonstrates …

•Make spelling mistakes

–New South Whales vs. New South Wales

–Australia vs. Austria

•Don’t forget to reference!