Whether you are seeking to proactively develop specific aspects of your own academic practice, looking for advice on an aspect of the learning and assessment process you are not familiar with, or are simply in need of some advice in the run up to your first assessment submission, these resource indexes are intended to be a quick and easy point of reference for you.
Within the various drop down sections on this page you will find a range of academic practice oriented learning resources that have either been created by our team (including guides, videos and podcasts), or are directly available to you via Cardiff Met's library catalogue (primarily ebooks and their chapters).
Do note these indexes also appear on the individual academic practice area subsites that sit within the Library & Academic Practice pages, they are also collated here in on one page for your ease of access. You may wish to also explore those also as they contain useful information about the different area of academic practice as well as links to external resources not contained within these indexes.
And finally, whilst our range of digital media content is directly linked to from within these indexes, if you prefer audio and video formats for this type of learning material, you may wish to also browse it directly on our Panopto video and podcast channels which include our concise BiteSize collection and our longer form LiveLearning video series which features extracts from our live workshops edited and time-stamped for your convenience!
Contains summaries of some basic theories and approaches to learning as well as further information and links to recommended external resources.
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"Altered global circumstances have prompted changes as universities have moved, in part, from their traditional practices to modes of teaching dependent on innovative technologies. This revised system – a mix of face-to-face and distance learning – will possibly contrast with your earlier learning experiences. This chapter outlines some of the current features – both old and new – contrasting them with your earlier education so that you know what is expected of you."
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"Universities are paradoxical – they bring out the best and worst qualities in students simultaneously. But it all makes sense when you realise that universities make demands of you at two different levels – the cognitive and the metacognitive . If you’re not prepared to take responsibility for your own learning at each of these two levels, university will be a frustrating and unhappy experience for you. However, if you relish the challenge of developing new knowledge and skills, then you will flourish in university. The choice is yours."
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"University education offers opportunities to explore and experiment with different learning styles, approaches and ways of understanding to help you learn effectively. This chapter presents different aspects of how growth in thinking and learning may take place at university."
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"‘Think for yourself’... But what does this advice really mean? And why is it so important for students like you?... thinking for yourself has two related meanings. On the one hand, it means questioning dominant ideas , especially when other people insist that such ideas are unquestionable. On the other hand, it means deciding what you believe – not by conforming slavishly to popular opinions but by forming independent conclusions based on a rational evaluation of available evidence and arguments..."
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"If you want to become a better learner in any area of life, you need to explore how your brain works in acquiring new knowledge and skills. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to provide some scientific principles and practical tips on a key aspect of learning in university: namely, how to improve your ability to remember and understand new information."
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A bitesize academic skills video (9 mins. 7 secs.) which looks at how you can learn from lectures. The video examines approaches to learning lectures employ, as well as considering some learning strategies for making the most from learning in lectures.
A bitesize academic skills video (11 mins. 21 secs.) examining the learning benefits of using active note making approaches during lectures.
"Lectures are about passing on information, ideas and arguments. This chapter introduces you to some different lecturing styles, suggests strategies for adapting to each of these examples and provides some illustrations of the language frequently used to frame and structure lectures."
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"This chapter explores ways in which higher-education lectures can be used to build your understanding while adapting your methods of noting down what you hear to suit the various lecture styles."
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"Tutorials differ from discipline to discipline and from institution to institution. This chapter outlines approaches to the conduct of tutorials that you may encounter in your field of studies."
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"Many courses, especially in the sciences, include laboratory sessions and field visits. These practical activities, sometimes referred to as ‘practicals’, provide valuable opportunities to observe specimens, carry out standard procedures and refine a range of valuable skills. You can gain a lot from these parts of the curriculum if you approach them correctly. This chapter guides you through observing safety measures, conducting practical activities and recording your findings in a laboratory report."
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"..learning from lectures depends greatly on efficient note-taking – a complex mental activity that interweaves listening skills (comprehension) and writing skills (production)... is it better to type your notes on a laptop or tablet or write them in longhand? Also, how do you know which points to note and which ones to ignore? If you’ve struggled with such questions, don’t despair... you won’t have to transcribe everything that you hear and see in class."
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"University education involves learning for yourself, but this doesn’t mean that you have to do it alone. Support networks can help. Your fellow students are a learning resource for you, and you for them. By studying together in groups formally and informally you can develop mutually supportive ‘learning networks’ with others on your course. This chapter looks at ways in which these networks can contribute to your learning, both online and in person."
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"As university staff devise innovative learning activities within blended learning models, the scope for teamworking has increased across the curriculum. Students from a range of disciplines can work as teams, even when they may be in different locations. Working within a team in this way is a rewarding way to learn. Furthermore, it can prepare you for workplace practice where employees regularly communicate on video-conferencing platforms. This chapter introduces the theory of different team roles and discusses some essential teamwork skills – for use in person or at a distance online."
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A succinct guide to different styles or approaches to learning, have a read to see which of them are familiar to you.
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"Managing your time effectively is an important key to a fulfilling, successful university career and is an essential aspect of caring for yourself. This chapter provides ideas for organising your activities and tips to help you focus on important tasks."
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"One of the distinctive traditions of university is that students are expected to set their own learning agenda within the confines of their course of study; in the changing university, the ability to do so has become an essential. This chapter offers some practical ways for organising yourself for study, including ways of organising the material you need to support your learning, assignments and exam revision."
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"Have you ever experienced an irresistible urge to tidy your room, check social media or have another cup of coffee when you’re faced with the task of reading a textbook or working on an academic assignment? If so, you’ve allowed displacement activities to prevent you from getting down to academic work. But you are not alone..."
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"One hour spent looking for answers to questions is more beneficial to your learning than three hours spent in aimless reading or in passive transcription from a textbook while your mind is miles away... it’s very important to manage your study time efficiently in university... the purpose of the present chapter is to give you some practical tips on this skill."
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"What exactly is concentration? Why do we lose it so easily? Perhaps, most importantly, what practical strategies could help you to focus more effectively? The purpose of this chapter is to provide some answers to these and other relevant questions."
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"Moving into the twenty-first century, universities adopted technology as a means of enhancing learning in higher education. This chapter provides an overview of the digital technology that has evolved and is now used to support blended learning."
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A bitesize academic skills video (11 mins. 21 secs.) examining the learning benefits of using active note making approaches during lectures.
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"Blended learning, with its mix of learning opportunities, places even more emphasis on creating notes as a record of online teaching, as well as the independent learning that follows from that. Regardless of your degree course, there will simply be too much information to retain, thus, notes are essential to support your learning. This chapter explores different approaches to note creation and the styles that you might use to suit the subject, topic and content of what you hear or read."
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Contains an overview of approaches to assessment and their functions as well as further information and links to recommended external resources.
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Part of our wider series examining critical vocabulary, this guide offers advice on establishing what is being asked of you within your assessment task titles. Understanding commonly used verbs and action words used in assessment task titles (and in the associated task marking criteria) will help you identify the key academic practices and skills you will be expected to demonstrate in your assessment submission in order for your assessors to be able to award high marks / grades. The guide also offers advice on using these types of action words to develop your own academic and critical vocabulary to improve your academic writing style.
A bitesize academic skills video (15 mins. 59 secs.) examining definitions of assessment, its role in motivating and evaluating learning before considering how assessment questions and marking criteria can be used in conjunction to get a better understanding of what your assessment tasks are requiring of you.
A Library and Academic Practice LiveLearning workshop video addressing the underlying principles of university academic assessment processes.
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"Many students report that keeping to a budget is one of the hardest parts of student life, but this does not have to be as arduous as it sounds if you take a positive approach to planning your income and expenditure. This chapter begins by helping you to predict likely costs, and then offers tips on keeping costs down and what to do if your budget isn’t working out. It also lists additional sources where you can obtain detailed information on money matters for students that applies to your own particular circumstances."
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"This chapter outlines aspects of well-being that are likely to be important to you and your friends and directs you to sources of support if you feel that you’re under extreme stress or are suffering from mental ill-health."
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"A bitesize academic skills video (18 mins. 43 secs.) examining MetSearch, Google Scholar and a range of other scholarly tools that can aid you in searching for high quality academic sources."
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"Your university library introduces you to a world of information, ideas and knowledge that is central to your learning. You’ll have access not only to the facilities available on campus, but also virtual access to other university libraries, collections and resources through digital media. As university courses increasingly rely on some form of blended learning, the ability to develop digital literacy is even more of a priority. Libraries reflect the immediacy of technological advances and this means that institutional information soon becomes outdated. Therefore, this chapter explains in more general terms some of the key aspects of information retrieval and related skills that you will be expected to acquire."
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A Bitesize Library & Academic Practice video (5 mins. and 57 secs.) presenting a screen demonstration of the user interface of MetSearch, Cardiff Met’s library discovery service. Make Metsearch your goto search solution for discovering high quality academic books and journals relevant to your subject area, essential for university learning and assessment success.
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"Whatever your discipline, you’ll find that you do a lot of reading as a university student. The first chapter in this section on learning from source material shows how to tackle academic text using a three-step approach. To help you do this efficiently, it also provides strategies for how to develop your speed reading and understanding."
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"... you not only have to read more in university than in school but you also to read differently ... But has anyone ever taught you how to extract maximum information from what you read? If not, then you may benefit from some practical advice on this skill. The purpose of this chapter is to show you how to read more deeply, systematically and effectively than at present."
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"Innovative technologies increasingly offer students information on a scale that could barely have been imagined in earlier times. Consequently, students now have to make vital judgements about the quality, accuracy and even truth of material they can access in hard copy and online. Being able to discriminate the good from the bad, the accurate from the distorted has become a core skill. This chapter will help you understand the origin of information and ideas, the reliability of sources and differences between fact, opinion and truth."
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A bitesize academic skills video (11 mins. 16 secs.) examining the purpose of referencing, when to reference (and when not to) before considering it as an aspect of wider academic practice and learning.
A bitesize academic skills video introducing the topic of referencing and citation. The video examines what a reference does, looks at three common reference types and their Harvard style formatting, before introducing the 'Cite them right' website referencing tool accessible to all Cardiff Met students at https://www.citethemrightonline.com.
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This referencing database is an invaluable source for finding and confirming citation and reference formats for a huge variety of common and obscure source types including (but not limited to) print, digital, image, physical objects and audio and visual sources.
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A bitesize academic skills video (9 mins. 16 secs.) examining Cardiff Met's definitions of academic misconduct and plagiarism (known as 'Unfair Practice'), as well as highlighting the steps you can take to avoid committing accidental academic misconduct.
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A bitesize academic skills video (9 mins. 16 secs.) examining Cardiff Met's definitions of academic misconduct and plagiarism (known as 'Unfair Practice'), as well as highlighting the steps you can take to avoid committing accidental academic misconduct.
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Download this interactive elesson to your device and open with Microsoft PowerPoint (or another compatible presentation software) to use.
Our Academic Writing homepage.
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This guide offers advice on both establishing the skills you need to evidence within written assessment tasks as well as tips for developing your academic vocabulary and writing style.
Use this series of reflective prompts to self-assess just how academic your writing really is? Does it fulfil these common characteristics and qualities of good academic writing?
Extending the ideas raised in the above worksheet, this useful checklist can be used to self-assess your own academic writing against a range of commonly used criteria types, forms of which are often found within marking descriptors to aid in assessing the quality of academic writing. Assess yourself! How well have you done? What mark would you award yourself?
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Use these concise paragraph topic template prompts to think about how your piece of academic writing will flow coherently, with your written discussion of various sub-topic matters each leading in to the next.
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"Regardless of the type of writing assignment you have to complete, or your discipline, the structure will follow a basic format. This chapter describes this design and explores some of the features that need to be included as you map your outline plan onto this structure."
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This guide explores the role and structure of the paragraph as used within academic writing. Use it to better understand what it is you need to achieve prior to writing as well as a means of self-evaluating your written draft paragraphs during the review and editing phase of assignment or research project writing.
This guide explores an important means of developing a more precise academic writing style. By recognising the differences between passive and active voices (or written styles) in sentence structure. An active voice is characterised by more assertive, precise and thus meaningful sentence structure that leaves your reader in no doubt as to your intended meaning.
Use this important guide! It explores several extremely common writing errors encountered by assessors. Read this guide as is to raise your awareness of these mistakes and apply the advice it offers during the drafting and final editing stages of a written piece of work in order identify whether you are committing these errors without realising and remedy them before submission.
This guide suggests a seven step process with associated tips and advice for planning, researching, writing and editing an assessed written assignment. Use it as is, or as a basis for developing your existing approach to academic assignment and essay writing.
This useful guide distinguishes academic writing from other forms of writing and in doing so explains its defining characteristics which you will be seeking to demonstrate to your assessors.
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A bitesize academic skills video examining the key characteristics of academic argument and its structure before considering higher order critical thinking skills and the vocabulary associated with them that you can use to articulate your critical method to assessors.
This form offers prompts for analysing academic arguments, use it to dissect, describe and assess the effectiveness of academic propositions made by others or apply it to your own academic writing as a means of self-assessing your work as you draft your assignment.
Use this form to evaluate an argument once you have analysed it. Whereas an analytical approach will enable you to identify the component parts of an author's argument, an evaluative approach will enable you to critically appraise and assess the clarity of the overall argument itself and importantly, the author's presentation of it.
Use this form to formulate, analyse and evaluate your own argument. Use the prompts to effectively develop your own ideas, supporting arguments and collate your evidence. Your summaries, analysis and thoughts regarding your argument can later be copied, pasted and edited into your assignment or thesis.
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A bitesize academic skills video examining the key characteristics of academic argument and its structure before considering higher order critical thinking skills and the vocabulary associated with them that you can use to articulate your critical method to assessors.
A bitesize academic skills video which begins by defining what an essay is and how it relates to university assessment before considering typical stages of essay writing, academic writing style and essay structure.
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"In preparation for looking at the more formal conventions of academic writing, this chapter looks at the fundamental stages in preparing to respond to any assignment. It takes you through a step-by-step process to help you plan the structure of your submission."
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"Planning your academic writing will help you to develop the planning skills that you’ll need in your future career. This chapter outlines some different planning options you may need to consider when structuring your response into an academic format."
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Understanding and applying critical lenses in Cardiff School of Art and Design.
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"You’ll come across data in many forms during your studies. You may be required to understand and explain graphs, tables and statistics, or be expected to generate them from raw information. The emphasis in this chapter is on data interpretation, but the principles of constructing graphs and presenting tables are also covered."
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This helpful guide contains a range of Socratic questioning to help you in developing your critical capacity for probing the academic viewpoints of others. As with the worksheets above it can equally be used as a means of probing your own academic arguments and writing as an effective means of self-assessment!
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"University is a time for growth in thinking. As a university student, you’re expected to engage with the material you encounter, not simply learn facts. Not only will you have to evaluate the provenance of what you study, but you’ll also have to think critically about its meaning and implications. How successfully you achieve this will reflect your deeper thinking and understanding. This chapter identifies concepts and methods (and fallacies to watch out for) that will help you to develop these analytical approaches that support critical thinking."
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A bitesize academic skills video examining the key characteristics of academic argument and its structure before considering higher order critical thinking skills and the vocabulary associated with them that you can use to articulate your critical method to assessors.
This form offers prompts for analysing academic arguments, use it to dissect, describe and assess the effectiveness of academic propositions made by others or apply it to your own academic writing as a means of self-assessing your work as you draft your assignment.
Use this form to evaluate an argument once you have analysed it. Whereas an analytical approach will enable you to identify the component parts of an author's argument, an evaluative approach will enable you to critically appraise and assess the clarity of the overall argument itself and importantly, the author's presentation of it.
Use this form to formulate, analyse and evaluate your own argument. Use the prompts to effectively develop your own ideas, supporting arguments and collate your evidence. Your summaries, analysis and thoughts regarding your argument can later be copied, pasted and edited into your assignment or thesis.
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A bitesize academic skills video examining the key characteristics of academic argument and its structure before considering higher order critical thinking skills and the vocabulary associated with them that you can use to articulate your critical method to assessors.
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A bitesize academic skills video (9 mins. 16 secs.) examining Cardiff Met's definitions of academic misconduct and plagiarism (known as 'Unfair Practice'), as well as highlighting the steps you can take to avoid committing accidental academic misconduct.
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Download this interactive elesson to your device and open with Microsoft PowerPoint (or another compatible presentation software) to use.
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"you will be expected to complete various research assignments in university such as essays, term papers, project dissertations and oral and poster presentations that are intended to evaluate and improve your writing and presentation skills... Research assignments help you to clarify and make explicit your thinking about a given topic. To help you to manage these tasks successfully, the purpose of this present chapter is to provide some practical advice on planning, researching, writing and presenting your academic assignments."
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