We offer a wide range of courses and workshops for every skill that you could need to succeed at university; from writing the perfect essay, to presenting or mastering those digital skills.
Here you can explore the live courses and workshops the Centre for Academic Success has to offer over the next couple of weeks. This page will constantly be updating with new sessions listed throughout the term.
Want to get a preview of all the events this term? Click here to view our Autumn/Winter Course Catalogue.
Poster presentations may seem an easy option for presenting your research, but there are many elements to a successful poster. This workshop explores the links between design, content, and delivery, providing examples of good posters and tips for confident presentation.
Singleton Campus
Monday 11th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
poster design, research poster
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Want to find an efficient way to process your data? Learn how to sort and label large quantities of information enabling you to quickly extract the information you need.
Online via Zoom
Monday 11th November 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, Excel
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Learn how to present and discuss academic arguments accurately, logically and persuasively.
Online via Zoom
Monday 11th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
academic writing, argument, academic style
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This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Singleton Campus
Monday 11th November 2024 (Session 7 of 10)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
writing, grammar
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This academic integrity workshop explains how to avoid plagiarism, prevent collusion and steer clear of commissioning and exam regulation breaches. It will equip you with the tools and knowledge to excel honestly in your academic writing.
Online via Zoom
Monday 11th November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
academic integrity, academic misconduct
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Learn the distinctive features of the literature review, as well as how to research, plan and write it!
Singleton Campus
Monday 11th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
dissertations, Synthesis, themes, paragraphing
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Learn how to write critical main body paragraphs. This workshop will help you show your marker that you have understood and critically engaged with your topic. We will cover paragraph structure, critical arguments, synthesis, and coherence and cohesion.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 12th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic writing, arguments, synthesising
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Elevate your speaking skills with our Informative Presentations Workshop. We'll look at the elements of a well-structured speech, analyse the 6 elements of informative speeches, and consider how to incorporate your sources effectively.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 12th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
slide design basics, speaking to inform, structure
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Hook your readers from the first word. Learn to craft engaging introductions and abstracts that outline your research. Improve structure and flow, explain the unique value of your work, and master the art of information presentation.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 12th November 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
thesis introductions, journal abstracts, flow in research writing
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We all make errors in our reasoning, but they can be hard to spot and may mislead us. In this workshop we consider some common logical flaws, and practise identifying them in texts, allowing us to critically interpret our own and others’ arguments.
Online via Zoom
Tuesday 12th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
critical thinking, fallacies, arguments
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The course is designed for students whose first language is not English. It will allow you to practise different English sounds and sentence stresses, to make your speech more fluent and natural and help you be better understood.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 12th November 2024 (Session 7 of 8)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
English pronunciation, English sounds, sentence stress
Sign up to this 8 week course
The course is designed for students whose first language is not English. It will allow you to practise different English sounds and sentence stresses, to make your speech more fluent and natural and help you be better understood.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 12th November 2024 (Session 7 of 8)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
English pronunciation, English sounds, sentence stress
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Adding rational expressions and simplifying is relatively easy. However, going the other way round, expressing a single rational function as the sum of two or more simpler ones is much more difficult. This workshop teaches us how to handle partial fractions and denominators with repeated quadratic factors.
Online via Zoom
Tuesday 12th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
Writing for the web requires purposeful and concise language use to capture and hold the reader's attention. This workshop teaches how to convey information effectively via a webpage.
Online via Zoom
Tuesday 12th November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
writing, webpage design
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Learn how to write an annotated bibliography. This workshop introduces what an annotated bibliography should include, and how it should be styled.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 12th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
academic writing, critical reading skills, synthesis
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Working in a group can feel daunting and #grouphate is real! This workshop considers the different stages of group formation and will help you navigate group dynamics, so you get the best from your group work.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 12th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
groupwork, group dynamics, group assessment
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This workshop will teach you how to correctly interpret question titles and use this knowledge to plan and structure a successful assignment.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 12th November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
academic writing, essay titles, planning
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In this workshop we will revise and practice integration by substitution.
Online via Zoom
Tuesday 12th November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
This workshop gives a general overview of best practice when preparing for a presentation. It’s perfect for those who have an upcoming presentation or wish to refresh their skills.
Bay Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
speaker skills, presentation skills
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This workshop applies critical thinking skills to debates and conversations. We will consider what makes a speaker persuasive, and then how we might apply knowledge about arguments to more be more persuasive and effective in debates and conversations.
Online via Zoom
Wednesday 13th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
critical thinking, debates, argument
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This workshop will explore how to solve differential equations using different methods: direct integration, the separation of variables and the integration factor.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
Discuss the main steps you need to take in preparing for and writing a systematic literature review, with a focus on structure and language, and effective communication of your research.
Bay Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
dissertations, Literature review, research
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This is a course for students whose first language is not English. It will improve your basic grammar before you write your assignments. This course covers key areas of English grammar such as the use of active/passive voice and basic sentence structures to improve written accuracy.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024 (Session 7 of 10)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
writing, grammar
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This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Online by Zoom
Wednesday 13th November 2024 (Session 6 of 10)
13:00 - 14:00 BST
writing, grammar
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This workshop examines the difference between descriptive writing and critical writing, what your lecturers are looking for when they ask you to be ‘more critical’ or ‘less descriptive’, and how to communicate your critical thinking through writing.
Online via Zoom
Wednesday 13th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
critical writing, critical analysis, argument
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Learn how to devise effective research questions and to develop these into a dissertation proposal that informs and inspires.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
dissertations, research questions, proposals
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Undergraduate degree ending? Looking to apply for graduate jobs? You may need to complete a numerical reasoning test as part of the recruitment process. Come along to our workshop to gain experience in answering these questions, learn skills the employers are looking for and gain some top tips!
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Bay Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024 (Session 7 of 10)
14:00 - 15:00 BST
writing, grammar
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Learn to use pivot tables, allowing you to pull out key information while leaving the original data intact. The workshop will also cover how to add a series of pivot tables within the same Excel spreadsheet, which look at different aspects of the data, and how to update and refresh them.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
14:00 - 16:00 BST
digital skills, Excel
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This workshop lets you in on the tips and tricks that memory masters use to maximise their powers of recall.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
14:00 - 16:00 BST
study skills, memory, recall
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Learn how to plan and structure effective abstracts and introductions for your dissertations using our simple frameworks.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
dissertations, writing introductions, abstracts
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Talk Club is somewhere for international students to meet and chat with fellow students in a semi-structured and supportive environment. This is a chance to improve your communication skills and build your confidence. Come along and join us!
Bay Campus
Wednesday 13h November 2024 (Session 7 of 10)
15:00 - 16:00 BST
oral communication, speaking with confidence
Sign up to this 10 week course
Learn to start and end your assignment well, with techniques for improving the impact of your academic introductions and conclusions.
Bay Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic writing, introductions, conclusions
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Critical thinking is a key skill at university. But why is it so valued, and how do we practise and present it? In this practical workshop we will identify and analyse the crucial elements of critical thinking in order to improve your written arguments.
Singleton Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
critical thinking, arguments, evaluation
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This workshop will introduce ways of understanding, analysing and evaluating a text so that you can interpret it confidentially and critically. Doing this will save you time and make your writing more purposeful.
Bay Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
critical reading, critical thinking, arguments
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In this workshop you will learn approaches to make you a more effective and efficient reader, allowing you to learn more, save time, and improve the scope and depth of your written work.
Online via Zoom
Thursday 14th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
critical reading skills, skimming/scanning, note taking
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This workshop explores matrices and their order, addition and subtraction of matrices, multiplication of a matrix with a scalar, identity and zero matrix, laws for the basic operations on matrices, and the transpose of a matrix.
Bay Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
This workshop will take you through some more complex but commonly statistical analysis tests: regression analysis. Working in the programme R, students will be given datasets, and work through the appropriate statistical analysis and interpretation (including linear regression and mixed model regression).
Bay Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
Using sources to evidence facts and support your arguments is an essential part of good academic writing. This workshop will help you to make the most of your sources, and to synthesise (combine) them into effective paragraphs.
Online via Zoom
Thursday 14th November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
paraphrasing, quotes, citing and referencing
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This workshop covers the basics of report writing, including the structure, purpose and effective presentation of information.
Singleton Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
report writing basics
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This workshop will focus on visualising data, students will work through how to best visualise the results of statistical analysis in a meaningful way.
Bay Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
Develop an understanding of how to present information and arguments in a way that is logical, engaging and easy to read.
Online via Zoom
Thursday 14th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
academic writing, paragraphing, academic style
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This workshop offers tips on how to paraphrase, quote and cite external sources. These skills are essential for avoiding accusations of plagiarism and maintaining academic integrity. They are also the first steps for you engage critically with your sources.
Bay Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
paraphrasing, quote, citing and referencing
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Master the conventions of academic style with simple guidelines to help your writing match the expectations of the University.
Bay Campus
Thursday 14th November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
academic writing, academic style, editing
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Ever lose a file or struggle with version control? This workshop explains how to set up your student OneDrive for efficient file management, so you can access, organise and amend your files from any device.
Bay Campus
Friday 15th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
digital skills, OneDrive, file management
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Talk Club is somewhere for international students to meet and chat with fellow students in a semi-structured and supportive environment. This is a chance to improve your communication skills and build your confidence. Come along and join us!
Singleton Campus
Friday 15th November 2024 (Session 7 of 10)
11:00 - 12:00 BST
oral communication, speaking with confidence
Sign up to this 10 week course
Learn the key elements of a professional email. This workshop also covers how to prioritise the emails you receive, manage events in your calendar, create a to-do list and share files in different ways.
Bay Campus
Friday 15th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, Outlook, emails, calendar, to-do lists
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Learn a simple method to help focus your thinking and make an effective, achievable dissertation plan.
Online via Zoom
Friday 15th November 2024
11:00 - 13:00 BST
dissertations, planning, time management
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Master the art of persuasive speaking, from the planning stage right through to delivering your speech. This workshop is ideal for those who want to maximise the effectiveness of their arguments through the power of convincing rhetoric.
Singleton Campus
Friday 15th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
public speaking, effective communication, influence and persuade
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The best assignments evolve out of several earlier drafts, so editing and proofreading are essential to good academic writing. This workshop focuses on the tools and techniques you need to ensure that your writing is clear and error-free.
Online via Zoom
Friday 15th November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
academic writing, editing, proofreading, drafting
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Discover the purpose and style of reflective writing, and how to engage with different reflective models to make your writing more nuanced and critical.
Singleton Campus
Friday 15th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
academic writing, reflective writing
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This workshop will teach you how to correctly interpret question titles and use this knowledge to plan and structure a successful assignment.
Singleton Campus
Monday 18th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic writing, essay titles, planning
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Learn the fundamentals of using formulas in Excel, and how to apply formulas to sum, count, apply statistics, standard deviation and measure of spread, logical interpretation and to look up data.
Online via Zoom
Monday 18th November 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, Excel, formulas
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Discover the purpose and style of reflective writing, and how to engage with different reflective models to make your writing more nuanced and critical.
Online via Zoom
Monday 18th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
academic writing, reflective writing
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This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Singleton Campus
Monday 18th November 2024 (Session 8 of 10)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
writing, grammar
Sign up to this 10 week course
Discuss the main steps you need to take in preparing for and writing a systematic literature review, with a focus on structure and language, and effective communication of your research.
Singleton Campus
Monday 18th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
dissertations, Literature review, research
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Master the art of persuasive speaking, from the planning stage right through to delivering your speech. This workshop is ideal for those who want to maximise the effectiveness of their arguments through the power of convincing rhetoric.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 19th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
public speaking, effective communication, influence and persuade
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This academic integrity workshop explains how to avoid plagiarism, prevent collusion and steer clear of commissioning and exam regulation breaches. It will equip you with the tools and knowledge to excel honestly in your academic writing.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 19th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic integrity, academic misconduct
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Learn to synthesise existing research with your own ideas, situating your work within the broader field. Discover ways to advance your argument and build a confident scholarly voice while crafting literature reviews that demonstrate your knowledge and unique contribution.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 19th November 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
literature review
Sign up to session 3 of 6
This workshop covers the basics of report writing, including the structure, purpose and effective presentation of information.
Ar-lein trwy Zoom
Tuesday 19th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
report writing basics
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The course is designed for students whose first language is not English. It will allow you to practise different English sounds and sentence stresses, to make your speech more fluent and natural and help you be better understood.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 19th November 2024 (Session 8 of 8)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
English pronunciation, English sounds, sentence stress
Sign up to this 8 week course
The course is designed for students whose first language is not English. It will allow you to practise different English sounds and sentence stresses, to make your speech more fluent and natural and help you be better understood.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 19th November 2024 (Session 8 of 8)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
English pronunciation, English sounds, sentence stress
Sign up to this 8 week course
A quadratic equation is a polynomial equation of degree 2. The ''U'' shaped graph of a quadratic is called a parabola. A quadratic equation has two solutions. Either two distinct real solutions, one double real solution or two imaginary solutions. There are several methods we can use to solve a quadratic equation explored in this workshop.
Ar-lein trwy Zoom
Tuesday 19th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
Critical thinking is a key skill at university. But why is it so valued, and how do we practise and present it? In this practical workshop we will identify and analyse the crucial elements of critical thinking in order to improve your written arguments.
Ar-lein trwy Zoom
Tuesday 19th November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
critical thinking, arguments, evaluation
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We all make errors in our reasoning, but they can be hard to spot and may mislead us. In this workshop we consider some common logical flaws, and practise identifying them in texts, allowing us to critically interpret our own and others’ arguments.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 19th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
critical thinking, fallacies, arguments
Sign up to this workshop
Learn to start and end your assignment well, with techniques for improving the impact of your academic introductions and conclusions.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 19eg Tachwedd 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
academic writing, introductions, conclusions
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The best assignments evolve out of several earlier drafts, so editing and proofreading are essential to good academic writing. This workshop focuses on the tools and techniques you need to ensure that your writing is clear and error-free.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 19th November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
academic writing, editing, proofreading, drafting
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In this workshop we will revise and practice Integration by Parts, Integrating by Parts more than once, and the Integration of Rational Functions.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 19th November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
Learn how to present and discuss academic arguments accurately, logically and persuasively.
Bay Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic writing, argument, academic style
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Learn how to write critical main body paragraphs. This workshop will help you show your marker that you have understood and critically engaged with your topic. We will cover paragraph structure, critical arguments, synthesis, and coherence and cohesion.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic writing, arguments, synthesising
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Learn how to write an annotated bibliography. This workshop introduces what an annotated bibliography should include, and how it should be styled.
Online via Zoom
Wednesday 20th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
academic writing, critical reading skills, synthesis
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This workshop examines the difference between descriptive writing and critical writing, what your lecturers are looking for when they ask you to be ‘more critical’ or ‘less descriptive’, and how to communicate your critical thinking through writing.
Bay Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
critical writing, critical analysis, argument
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Mathematical expressions are numbers, operators and symbols grouped to 'express' or 'show' a value. Once you understand manipulating expressions principles, you can factorise and simplify expressions. This workshop explores collecting like terms, expanding brackets, factorizing quadratic expressions and dealing with algebraic fractions.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
This is a course for students whose first language is not English. It will improve your basic grammar before you write your assignments. This course covers key areas of English grammar such as the use of active/passive voice and basic sentence structures to improve written accuracy.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024 (Session 8 of 10)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
writing, grammar
Sign up to this 10 week course
This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Online by Zoom
Wednesday 20th November 2024 (Session 7 of 10)
13:00 - 14:00 BST
writing, grammar
Sign up to this 10 week course
Learn the distinctive features of the literature review, as well as how to research, plan and write it!
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
dissertations, Synthesis, themes, paragraphing
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A knowledge of indices is essential for an understanding of most algebraic processes. In this workshop, we will learn about powers and rules for manipulating them. Furthermore, we will explore logarithms and exponentials.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
This workshop gives a general overview of best practice when preparing for a presentation. It’s perfect for those who have an upcoming presentation or wish to refresh their skills.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
speaker skills, presentation skills
Sign up to this workshop
This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Bay Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024 (Session 8 of 10)
14:00 - 15:00 BST
writing, grammar
Sign up to this 10 week course
Learn how to showcase your findings using the appropriate chart, and to amend chart elements to edit the design and layout. This workshop will also teach you how to apply a logarithmic scale and error bars, and how to export your charts to other documents.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
14:00 - 16:00 BST
digital skills, Excel, charts
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Learn how to write the methodology section of your dissertation. We will look at what needs to be included in the methodology, and the correct style for writing it.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
dissertations, methodology
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Talk Club is somewhere for international students to meet and chat with fellow students in a semi-structured and supportive environment. This is a chance to improve your communication skills and build your confidence. Come along and join us!
Bay Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024 (Session 8 of 10)
15:00 - 16:00 BST
oral communication, speaking with confidence
Sign up to this 10 week course
The key to being a good speaker is to practise. This workshop offers the chance to rehearse your presentation/speech before a supportive audience, and to receive expert feedback.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
public speaking, presentation practice
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Master the conventions of academic style with simple guidelines to help your writing match the expectations of the University.
Singleton Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic writing, academic style, editing
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Develop an understanding of how to present information and arguments in a way that is logical, engaging and easy to read.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic writing, paragraphing, academic style
Sign up to this workshop
Using sources to evidence facts and support your arguments is an essential part of good academic writing. This workshop will help you to make the most of your sources, and to synthesise (combine) them into effective paragraphs.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
paraphrasing, quotes, citing and referencing
Sign up to this workshop
Learn the distinctive features of the literature review, as well as how to research, plan and write it!
Online via Zoom
Thursday 21st November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
dissertations, Synthesis, themes, paragraphing
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This workshop explores the dot product of two vectors, multiplication of a matrix with a scalar, multiplication of a matrix with a vector, multiplication of a matrix with a matrix, and laws for matrix multiplication.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
This workshop is a beginners guide to writing documents in LaTeX using Overleaf. No prior knowledge is needed for this workshop or any other computing language, it will cover the basics of LaTeX including document structure, typesetting text, tables, figures, equations and Inserting references.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
Poster presentations may seem an easy option for presenting your research, but there are many elements to a successful poster. This workshop explores the links between design, content, and delivery, providing examples of good posters and tips for confident presentation.
Online via Zoom
Thursday 21st November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
poster design, research poster
Sign up to this workshop
This workshop will introduce ways of understanding, analysing and evaluating a text so that you can interpret it confidentially and critically. Doing this will save you time and make your writing more purposeful.
Singleton Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
critical reading, critical thinking, arguments
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This intermediate workshop builds on the getting to know LaTeX workshop by exploring the presentation package in LaTeX called beamer. We will also cover more complicated packages in LaTeX and look at how to use them.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
This workshop gives a general overview of best practice when preparing for a presentation. It’s perfect for those who have an upcoming presentation or wish to refresh their skills.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
speaker skills, presentation skills
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The key to being a good speaker is to practise. This workshop offers the chance to rehearse your presentation/speech before a supportive audience, and to receive expert feedback.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
public speaking, presentation practice
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Learning to apply and modify formatting styles in Word will give your work a professional finish but will make the document accessible and easy to navigate. You will also be able to create and update a contents page at the click of a button.
Bay Campus
Friday 22nd November 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, Word, formatting styles, contents page
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Talk Club is somewhere for international students to meet and chat with fellow students in a semi-structured and supportive environment. This is a chance to improve your communication skills and build your confidence. Come along and join us!
Singleton Campus
Friday 22nd November 2024 (Session 8 of 10)
11:00 - 12:00 BST
oral communication, speaking with confidence
Sign up to this 10 week course
Learn how to devise effective research questions and to develop these into a dissertation proposal that informs and inspires.
Online via Zoom
Friday 22nd November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
dissertations, research questions, proposals
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This workshop offers tips on how to paraphrase, quote and cite external sources. These skills are essential for avoiding accusations of plagiarism and maintaining academic integrity. They are also the first steps for you engage critically with your sources.
Singleton Campus
Friday 22nd November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
paraphrasing, quote, citing and referencing
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Learn how to plan and structure effective abstracts and introductions for your dissertations using our simple frameworks.
Online via Zoom
Friday 22nd November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
dissertations, writing introductions, abstracts
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