Learning Skills Helpsheets

• Writing Skills
• Text Types
• Citing and Referencing
• Study Skills
• Research Skills
• Maths and Statistics

See also the learning skills booklets for students studying in Economics and Commerce.

Writing Skills

• Apostrophes (PDF 298Kb)
• Articles (PDF 278Kb)
• Editing and Proofreading (PDF 216Kb)
• Editing and Proofreading Checklist (PDF 165Kb)
• Improving your Writing (PDF 82Kb)
• Paragraphs (PDF 346Kb)
• Punctuation (PDF 263Kb)
• Verb Tenses (PDF 242Kb)
  

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Text Types

• Abstracts (PDF 193Kb)
• Annotated Bibliographies (PDF 243Kb)
• Case Studies (PDF 252Kb)
• Case Studies: Research Methods (PDF 230Kb)
• Critical Reviews (PDF 288Kb)
• Essay Checklist (PDF 199Kb)
• Essay Writing Attitude (PDF 64Kb)
• Essay Writing: the Basics (PDF 130Kb)
• Introductions (PDF 212Kb)
• Literature Reviews (PDF 268Kb)
• Report Checklist (PDF 190Kb)
• Research Reports (PDF 350Kb)
• Task Words (PDF 286Kb)

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Citing and Referencing

• Abbreviations for Referencing (PDF 178Kb)
• Language for Citing (PDF 224Kb)
• Paraphrasing (PDF 291Kb)
• Plagiarism (PDF 265Kb)
• The Harvard System (PDF 70Kb)

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Study Skills

• Academic Expectations (PDF 220Kb)
• Critical Thinking 1 (PDF 67Kb)
• Critical Thinking 2 (PDF 124Kb)
• Debating (PDF 224Kb)
• ESL Suggestions for International Students (PDF 62Kb)
• Exam Preparation (PDF 246Kb)
• Getting the Best out of Your Tutorials (PDF 257Kb)
• Giving Presentations (PDF 242Kb)
• Planning and Organisation (PDF 65Kb)
• Presentation Checklist (PDF
• Reading Skills (PDF 292Kb)

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Research Skills

• Completing a PhD (PDF 332Kb)
• Conducting Interviews (PDF 303Kb)
• Critical Thinking: Fallacies (PDF 200Kb)
• Information Literacy (PDF 294Kb)
• Research Essentials (PDF 252Kb)
• Research Proposal (PDF 297Kb)
• Working with Supervisors (PDF 235Kb)

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Maths and Stats

• Algebra (PDF 67Kb)
• Arithmetic  (PDF 84Kb)
• Cramers Rule (PDF 115Kb)
• Evaluating the Derivative of a Function (PDF 85Kb)
• Exponential Log Function and Derivative (PDF 63Kb)
• Integration (PDF 105Kb)
• Matrix Algebra (PDF 150Kb)
• Quadratic Equations (PDF 104Kb)
• Statistics (PDF 111Kb)

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These documents cannot be printed. University of Melbourne students in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce can collect a free hard copy of any of the documents from the TLU, Level 4, The Spot, or from the Commerce Student Centre on Level 1, The Spot. Unless otherwise indicted they are authored by Martin Davies, Tim Beaumont and Dorothea Carter. If other institutions wish to use them please contact Dr Martin Davies.