Library of Study Skills Resources
Welcome!
You will find a collection of study resources in the sections below.
You might also like to refresh your memory of some of the basic orientations to study with Public Health U in the Preparing to Study course.
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You may find the resources in this section of help when you write your comments to the discussion forums in each module, and when you write your assignments and then the Dissertation. There are some general points in the resources, as well as specific suggestions about discussion posts and assignments.
Strategies for Essay Writing from Harvard
This is an interactive resource from the University of Sheffield - Study skills for students - which you may find useful to work through. It covers a whole range of issues, such as writing and referencing including a good section on plagiarism
Resources that help you structure your essay, kindly provided by the University of Sussex
This is an old book - Elements of style - published in 1920! But you may find it interesting.
The need to quote references underlies much of the work in Peoples-uni with our emphasis on the importance of the need for an evidence based approach. You will see in this section a number of resources and links to others to help with how to quote references.
This section provides a brief introduction to how to access the research literature online, if you do not have access to a university library. There are many ways to find articles and health data. There is also a small section on how to search for evidence. You will find much more on this in the Evidence Based Practice module.