Survival guides

Many commencing students find academic skills required for successful engagement in their study programs challenging.

The survival guides are documents which cover a range of basic competencies in reading, writing and oral communication. 

These one-page guides articulate the different types of competencies required for students to positively engage in their study programs. The guides can be embedded in your courses or programs.

• Academic reading (30 KB)
• Academic writing (45 KB)
• Annotated bibliographies (20 KB)
• Critical reading (17 KB)
• Doing assignments (282 KB)
• Essay writing (111 KB)
• Exams (44 KB)
• Group work (21 KB)
• Learning style assessment (16 KB)
• Learning style (619 KB)
• Literature review (173 KB)
• Making the most out of face (175 KB)
• Note taking (34 KB)
• Oral presentation (21 KB)
• References (17 KB)
• Referencing (128 KB)
• Summarising (109 KB)
• Time management - Creating a balance (183 KB)
• Time management (132 KB)

Download the entire Survival kit (4.7 MB) (Extract all the files from the downloaded zip file)