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In this episode, Linda is joined by Mairi, Carly and John to discuss a key element of academic writing. They look at what successful paraphrasing involves and offer some advice on how best to go about it.
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In this episode, the Academic Skills team discuss Artificial Intelligence and how developments in the past couple of years are affecting university assessments. Making his first appearance on the podcast since series 3, Dr Kevin Wilson from the UWS Learning Transformation team joins John, Mairi and Carly for a chat.
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Or 'How Not to Annoy Your Markers'! As ever, Linda is joined by the UWS Academic Skills Team to chat about how to do the basic things right when working on your assessments.
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In this episode, Linda talks to Dr Alan Walker, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, and Academic Skills Adviser John about how you can access numeracy, mathematics and statistics support at UWS.
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In this episode, Linda is joined by Carly and John to talk all things notetaking- why it is so important to do in the first place and strategies to deal with it.
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In this episode, Linda, Carly and Mairi are joined by Lindsay from the UWS Careers team to talk about how all the academic skills you gain at university can help you in the workplace.
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In this episode, Linda is joined by John and Carly for a quick tour around the new UWS Academic Skills website and a behind-the-scenes look into the making of it!
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In this episode, the UWS Academic Skills team offer their top tips on how to deal with a presentation task. They discuss how to structure your talk, the language you should use, incorporating references and how to deal with nerves.
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In this episode, Linda is joined by John, Carly and Mairi to discuss a useful tool that can help improve your academic writing- the Academic Phrasebank from the University of Manchester.
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In this episode, the Academic Skills team discuss the all important final phase of the assignment writing process- the proofreading stage.
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TextAid is a literacy tool available to all UWS students. In this short episode, the Academic Skills Advisers discuss their favourite functions within TextAid- have a listen and see if any of these might benefit you whilst working on your assignments.
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In this short episode, UWS Academic Skills Adviser John chats to host Linda about the PEAS model, which is a great way to go about organising your paragraphs in your writing.
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Ahead of the new term starting, UWS Academic Skills Adviser Carly tells host Linda about her top tips for getting back into good study habits in a shorter than usual podcast.
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In this mini-episode, UWS Academic Skills Adviser Mairi chats to host Linda about her top tips for academic writing. A great listen for both new and continuing students.
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In this episode, Linda and the team are joined by Andy Carrell, a current UWS student, to talk all things Academic Skills. Andy has studied at UWS since his undergraduate days and is currently embarking on his PhD. As a result, he is perfectly placed to talk about his experience of using the service and offer some great tips.
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In this episode, Linda, John, Carly and Mairi discuss Turnitin, which you will almost certainly use to submit assignments at UWS. They explain what a similarity report is and how best to interpret the results from that.
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In this episode, Linda, John and Carly talk about how to make group work work!
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In this episode, Linda, Carly and Mairi share their tips for how to study more effectively.
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Time to re-introduce ourselves given that there have been a number of changes since we last did an introduction podcast two years ago, above all new members of staff! As ever Linda hosts and is joined by Mairi, John, Carly and Christa to introduce themselves and talk about what the service can offer you in 2024.
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A special guest joins us for this episode. Dr Chloe Maclean is a lecturer at UWS and has written about the concept of 'imposter syndrome' in higher education. She joins Linda, John and Carly to discuss what this means and how to change this way of thinking.
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