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Assignments
Topics
- Write like a professional
- Use the appropriate writing style
- Introductions and conclusions
- Dividing your work into paragraphs
- Using linking words
- English for learning
- Assignments reading list
- Managing stress
- Visualisation techniques for dealing with stress
- Self talk for dealing with stress
- Booklet - Preparing Assignments (PDF, 409KB)
AV and Interactive (OU login required)
- Activity: linking words (SWF, 89KB)
- Activity: paragraphs (SWF, 222KB)
- Activity: writing in your own words (SWF, 160KB)
- Coping with exam stress
- Coping with exam stress concerns with writing
- Coping with exam stress during the exam
- Coping with exam stress goal related
- Coping with exam stress introduction
- Coping with exam stress revision
- Coping with exam stress summary
- Libraries and searching
- Mick's advice on dealing with feedback
- Relaxation exercises (female voice)
- Relaxation exercises (male voice)
- Create your own strategy (SWF, 3.7MB)
- Cynthia's advice on starting an assignment (SWF, 1.7MB)
- Eulina's advice on starting an assignment (SWF, 1MB)
- Eulina's advice on writing an assignment (SWF, 1MB)
- James's advice on starting an assignment (2.3MB)
- Lijing's advice on being confident about your exam (SWF, 1.4MB)
- Mel's advice on starting a language assignment (SWF, 1.5MB)
- Michael's advice on writing an assignment (SWF, 1.9MB)
- Techniques for writing assignments (SWF, 2.4MB)
- Types of assignment (SWF, 3.2MB)
Revising, exams and assessment
Topics
- Preparing for examinations
- Alternative arrangements for your exam
- Revision
- Revising at different times
- Gathering revision material
- Finding out about the exam paper
- Revision planning
- Where to revise
- Revision techniques
- Retrieving what you know
- Visual techniques for revision
- Summarising for revision
- Quick reviews for revision
- Rehearsing exam answers
- Revising with others
- Revision tips for language students
- Written exams
- Practical preparation for exams
- Exams - remaining positive
- At the exam centre
- Taking the exam
- Planning your answers in exams
- At the end of the exam
- Oral exams
- Oral exam preparation tips
- On the day of the oral exam
- End-of-course assessment (ECA)
- Course results
- Managing stress
- Booklet - Revising for Examinations (PDF, 657KB)
AV and Interactive (OU login required)
- Coping with exam stress
- Coping with exam stress concerns with writing
- Coping with exam stress during the exam
- Coping with exam stress goal related
- Coping with exam stress introduction
- Coping with exam stress revision
- Coping with exam stress summary
- Roger's advice on answering questions on the exam day
- Roger's advice on how to prepare for exams
- Rogers advice on the run up to the exam
- Roger's stategies for taking the exam
- Stella and Linda's advice on top tips for language learning
- Relaxation exercises (female voice)
- Relaxation exercises (male voice)
- Alternative arrangements for your exam (SWF, 6.2MB)
- Ged's advice to students who are revising for an exam (SWF, 1MB)
- Ged's advice to students who are taking an exam (SWF, 1MB)
- Katherine's advice on preparing for an exam (SWF, 1.9MB)
- Katherine's advice on revising for the exam (SWF, 1.3MB)
- Lijing's advice on being confident about your exam (SWF, 1.4MB)
- Mark's advice on revising for your exam (SWF, 1.5MB)
- Retrieving what you know (SWF, 2.2MB)
- Ruth's advice for timetabling your revision (SWF, 1.6MB)
- Taking the exam (SWF, 1.9MB)
Develop effective study strategies
Topics
- Active learning
- Visualise your learning
- Motivation
- Your learning style
- Developing your study skills
- The importance of feedback
- Talking about learning
- Being reflective
- Benefits of reflection
- Keeping a reflective learning journal
- Tools for reflection
- Course-start review
- Mid-course review
- End-of-course review
AV and Interactive (OU login required)
- Active learning (SWF, 6.4MB)
- A strategy for study (SWF, 12.6MB)
- Emma's advice for students who fall behind (SWF, 3.5MB)
- Emma's advice to new students (3.4MB)
- Helpful time management tips (4.2MB)
- If you fall behind (3.9MB)
- Motivation (5.4MB)
- Planning and prioritising (5.7MB)
- Stop and think (SWF, 6.4MB)
- Studying with the OU (SWF, 4.3MB)
- Support for studying (SWF, 4.4MB)
- Thinking about learning (8.3MB)
- Transferable skills (SWF, 9.6MB)
- Using feedback (SWF, 4.4MB)
- Your prior learning (10.3MB)
Thinking, reading and taking notes
Topics
- Critical thinking
- Ways to develop critical thinking
- Reading for your course
- Finding and evaluating your materials
- Fast reading techniques
- Active reading
- Reading critically
- What good readers do
- Five steps to better reading
- Coping with difficult content
- Organising your notes
- Using abbreviations
- Taking notes for language students
- Reading maths
- Writing maths
- If you get stuck with maths
- Working with charts, graphs and tables toolkit
- Booklet - Reading and Taking Notes (PDF, 1.08MB)
- Booklet - Thinking Critically (PDF, 542KB)
Postgraduate study skills
Interactive demonstrations
AV and Interactive (OU login required)
- Demo: set text to be bold and italic (SWF, 269KB)
- Demo: set line spacing (SWF, 150KB)
- Demo: change page margins (SWF, 126KB)
- Demo: change font type, size and colour (SWF, 260KB)
- Demo: copy and paste text (SWF, 147KB)
- Demo: cut and paste text (SWF, 148KB)
- Demo: using outline view (SWF, 269KB)
- Demo: creating a table (SWF, 260KB)
- Demo: using undo (SWF, 146KB)
- Demo: using word count (SWF, 197KB)
- Demo: creating an organisation chart (SWF, 193KB)
- Demo: using drawing tools (AutoShapes) (SWF, 316KB)
- Demo: using drawing tools (curvy lines) (SWF, 170KB)
- Demo: using drawing tools (flowcharts and connecting lines) (SWF, 257KB)
- Demo: creating a mind map (SWF, 128KB)
- Demo: create a folder and save a document (SWF, 298KB)
- Demo: searching for a document (SWF, 176KB)