Scoping, thinking and research means reflecting on academic tasks before you start writing.

This means considering how to get started, planning, and devising strategies for finding, collecting and accessing resources to inform your thinking.

Being systematic about study processes comes easily to some and is challenging for others. Gaining skills in 'sizing up' learning challenges, developing effective and resourceful techniques for sourcing information, engaging with it and then thinking about what it means are core-skills to develop. Studying at university provides the opportunity to improve and become more confident in all these areas of academic development. Click a resource below to explore, or read more first ...

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clicklink to google scholarScholar- is Google's powerful academic search engine that has a variety of very useful resources ...
clickendnote logoEndNote - is a very comprehensive bibliographic referencing application that can 'Cite as you Write'
clickzotero logoZotero - is a free, web-browser plug-in that can collect and save references
clickzotero logoEverNote - is a comprehensive resource for collecting, storing and organizing information and much much more..
clickresearch store logoReStore- provides an extensive catalogue of links and resources for professional researchers at all levels
clicktextaloud logoTextAloud - is one of many text-to-speech application that will read out loud your writing to help with proof-reading
clicknatural reader logoNatural Reader - is another text-to-speech tool that also provides good quality 'listening' to help with proof-reading
clickfuturelearn logoFutureLearn - is an access point to free, short, online learning courses - MOOCs really