Subject Guides: A practical guide for final-year students: Useful skills

Create & communicate

Skills Guide: Academic writing
The principles and practicalities of writing a piece of academic work.
Skills Guide: 10 Top Tips for a Tip Top Undergraduate Dissertation
A Practical Guide to help you understand what is expected for a dissertation
Skills Guide: Creating documents
A detailed look at setting up, creating and finalising documents in Word or Google Docs.

We'll be running a Writing Retreat after Consolidation Week. Keep an eye on our training list for more details.

Find & research

Skills Guide: Searching for information
There are so many different sources of information out there. How do you choose between them?
Searching for information: Framing your research
What are the right sources of information for the question you're trying to answer?
Data: Gathering data
Gathering your own data and creating forms and surveys.

Organise & analyse

Skills Guide: Time management
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
Searching for information: Keeping up-to-date
How can you keep on top of the latest research or the latest happenings?
Skills Guide: Maths skills
Mathematics and statistics advice from the Maths Skills Centre.
Data: Analysing data
Tools and approaches for manipulating and making sense of data.

Being critical

Being critical: Critical thinking
Critical thinking skills are important for engaging with academic literature and informing your own writing.
Being critical: Evaluating information
How do you know if something's any good or not? Or even if the information is genuine? What are the questions to ask?
Let's get critical: Reading academic articles
Academic texts aren't meant to be read through from beginning to end, so how are they meant to be read?
Being critical: Critical reading
It's important to question what you read. Here we look at some of the different approaches to take.

Take a look at our guide to using IT at York, from getting started to making the most of devices and tools.

Training

You can use the filters below to explore skills training from the Library, IT, and Learning Services, including sessions for staff and researchers. To book onto a session, follow the link in the session information below, logging into the booking system when prompted.

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We also run a number of specialised training sessions for staff and research postgraduates:

IT Services: IT training
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