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In the FIRST instance, always consult your Faculty 'Guide for Students' for information about assessment items.

Faculty and library guides are available at:

LibGuides

http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/. These excellent guides aim to point you in the right direction for finding information for your assesment items, gain a better understanding about the sources of information for your subject area and generally help you to become more "information literate".

Academic Learning Skills advisers have also found the following websites to be useful:

Abstract

CQUniversity
Communications Learning Centre

Academic writing

University of New South Wales
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/olib.html#Oral

Annotated bibliographies

Purdue University Online
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_annotatedbib.html
Toronto University
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/annotated-bibliography

Answering the question

University of Canberra
http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/writing/answering

Appendices

CQUniversity (PDF)
UniLearning: http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/report/1i.html

Argumentative essays

About.com Study Tips
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/essaywriting/a/argument.htm

Assessment

Assessment of Coursework Policy (including exam procedures)
http://policy.cqu.edu.au/Policy/policy.jsp?policyid=701

Assignment Cover sheets

You can find information on how to generate CQUniversity assignment cover sheets at My.CQU (click on CQUni Documents and choose the 'For Students' folder) or by clicking here.

Book synopsis

UNSW
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/critrev.html

Business Reports

CQUniversity Business Guide for Students - Chapters 4 and 5

Case studies

CQUniversity Business Guide for Students - (Download Chapters 3-7 and look at pages 64-70)
Monash University
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/quickrefs/27-case-study.xml

Compare/Contrast Essay

http://www.bookrags.com/articles/5.html

Conclusion

University of Canberra
http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/writing/conclusions

Critical analysis

Cornell University Library
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm

Critical review of an article or book

University of Toronto
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/book-review

Critical review non-fiction

University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CriNonfiction.html

Critical thinking

University of Canberra
http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/learning/critical

Dictionaries

WorldReference.com English Dictionary http://www.wordreference.com/definition/iterate

Difference between an essay and a report

University of Canberra
http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/writing/reports

Engineering case study

University of New South Wales
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/case_study/index.htm

Evaluation criteria

Susan E Beck New Mexico State University Library
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

Evaluation of web sites

UC Berkeley Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Evaluating sources of information

CQUniversity
Communications Learning Centre
CQUniversity Library

Exam Preparation

CQUniversity - Study Skills

Executive Summary

CQUniversity - Business Guide for Students
eHow Inc
http://www.ehow.com/how_16566_write-executive-summary.html

Flow of an essay

eHow
http://www.ehow.com/how_2141379_essay-flow.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_5263089_make-essay-flow-smoothly.html

Group Work

CQUniversity
Study Skills
Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au/current-students/study-support/study-skills/handouts/groups.php

Guide for students

Introduction

University of Canberra http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/writing/introductions

Journals

The Catholic Community Forum http://www.catholic-forum.com/churches/cathteach/english_reflection_journal.html

Lab reports

University of New South Wales
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/labrep.html
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/labrep1.html
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/labrep2.html

Literature review

University of Canberra
http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/writing/literature
Example of Literature review
http://ec.hku.hk/acadgrammar/litrev/examples/litex3.htm
University of Melbourne
http://unimelb.libguides.com/lit_reviews/
CQUniversity: http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/litreview

Mature Age Students

Charles Sturt University
http://www.csu.edu.au/division/studserv/support/chaplain/mature.htm

Memo

Owl Purdue
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/590/01/

Writing technical reports

Monash University
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/engineering/technical-report/index.xml

Note Taking

CQUniversity - Communications Learning Centre
Canberra University
http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/learning/lectures
Bradford University
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/external/els/pdf/effectivenotemaking.pdf

Oral Presentations

CQUniversity Business Guide for Students - (Chapter 7)
University of New South Wales
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/tutsem.html

Page Numbers, Headers and Footers

1. Word 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGzz2ZmLrFw
2. Word 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsObtfouKF8

Paraphrasing

The OWL at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html

Peer reviewed article

University of Queensland http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/useits/what_are_journals.pdf

Plagiarism

CQUniversity
http://policy.cqu.edu.au/Policy/policy_file.do?policyid=1244
http://policy.cqu.edu.au/Policy/policy_file.do?policyid=1248
Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University
How to avoid plagiarism workshop

Psychology

University of Washington http://www.psych.uw.edu/psych.php#p=339

Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarising

Owl Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/1/

Questionnaire

Jim Manis, Pennsylvania State University http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/questi_1.htm

Referencing

CQUniversity - Referencing

Reflective journal

University of Maine
http://misclab.umeoce.maine.edu/boss/classes/SMS_491_2007/journal.pdf
RMIT University
http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/2_AssessmentTasks/05reflective.htm

Reports

Write Reports in Science and Engineering (WRiSE) (Australian Learning and Teaching Council)
http://www.usyd.edu.au/learningcentre/wrise/home.html
RMIT
http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/2_AssessmentTasks/assess_tuts/reports_LL/index.html
Types of reports
http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/2_AssessmentTasks/assess_tuts/reports_LL/types.html
Research report
http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/2_AssessmentTasks/assess_tuts/reports_LL/research.html
Baron- Research report in Psychology
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~baron/labrep.html

Research proposal

Monash University
http://www.education.monash.edu.au/students/current/study-resources/proposalwriting.html

Science and Engineering

Write Reports in Science and Engineering (WRiSE) (Australian Learning and Teaching Council)
http://www.usyd.edu.au/learningcentre/wrise/home.html
University of New South Wales
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/olib.html#6

Section Breaks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1WtKR6FDM4

Stress Management

CQUniversity - Study Skills

Study and Exams

Charles Sturt University http://hsc.csu.edu.au/study/

Synopsis

Essortment http://www.essortment.com/all/synopsiswriteb_rqmx.htm

TeacherVision

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/assessment/teaching-methods/20153.html

Textual Analysis

Northern Illinois University http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/txtanal.html

Time Management

CQUniversity - Study Skills
University of Waterloo
http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocs/study/

Portfolio

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=109692&sectioncode=26

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