Student Resources

 

Clicking a category heading will reveal online links and resources. There are many such sites available, but as a starting point, the following sites cover a wide range of topics. Remember that these are written for students at many different levels; you may have to explore to find what's useful for you.

 

 

Exam Preparations

• USM Library
• Exam Study Tips
• Managing Exam Anxiety and Panic
• Test Anxiety
• Overcoming Test Anxiety
• Study Habits & Test Anxiety
• Study Environment Analysis
• Control of Study Environment

Critical Thinking

• Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains
• Critical Thinking
• Critical Thinking
• Critical Thinking

Motivational

• Motivation Speech: "Dare To Be Different"
• Are you willing to ask?
• Motivation and Concentration: University of Minnesota
• Motivation and Concentration: Simon Frazer University
• How to Motivate Yourself
• 10 Terrific Self Motivating Tips
• Motivating Yourself
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

Learning Skills

• How to Improve Learning Skills
• Learning Strategies
• 7 Secrets to Improve Your Ability to Learn (For Students of All Ages)
• Developing a Project & Choosing a Mentor
• Monitoring Progress & Review

Writing Skills

• Writing Skills
• Planning Your Writing
• Planning and Preparing to Write Assignments
• Practice Your Writing
• Understanding Your Assignment
• Prewriting
• Content Organization
• Writing Introductions
• Body Paragraphs
• Thesis Development
• Using Evidences in Writing
• Summary and Analysis
• Writing Conclusions
• Common Stylistic Concerns

Listening Skills

• Why Listen?
• Listening Skills
• Self Help-Listening Skills
• Keys to Better Listening
• 10 Ways to Improve Your Listening Skills
• Effective Listening Skills
• Study Tip – How to Practice Listening English
• Practice Your Listening

Communication Skills

• The Basics of Communicating with Others
• Ways of Effective Communication
• Effective Communication
• Improve Your Communication Skills
• How to Develop Good Communication Skills
• The Seven Challenges Workbook – Communication Skills for Success
• Improving Adult English Language Learners’ Speaking Skills
• Effective Communication and Assertiveness
• 9 Healthy Ways to Communicate
• Improving Verbal Skills
• Improving Communication Skills
• Assertiveness
• The Language of Assertiveness
• Fighting the Fair Way
• Problem Solving

Emotional Quotient

• 10 Ways to Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
• Emotional Intelligence – Developing Strong “People Skills”
• Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence
• Preventing Perfectionism
• A Guide to Understanding and Coping with Compassion Fatigue

Time Management

• Top 10 time management skills for college students from a Stanford entrepreneur
• Time Management Made Easy
• Time Management
• Time and project management; problem solving
• Time Management
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Time Management
• Review: My Daily Schedule
• Review: My Weekly Schedule
• Scheduling your School Calendar
• Review: Setting Goals
• Review: Create a To-do List
• Avoid Procrastination
• Developing Self-discipline
• Time Management Tips for Busy College Students
• How to Improve Your Time Management Skills

Reading and Note Taking

• The Open University
• Note Taking Strategies
• Note taking skills from lectures and readings
• Theories of Reading
• Tips for Effective Reading
• Six Steps to Effective Reading
• Practice Your Reading

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

• What is plagiarism and citing electronic resources?
• PENN University
• Purdue OWL: Avoiding Plagiarism
• Plagiarism – UNSW Australia
• Academic Integrity and Plagiarism – UBC
• Academic Integrity and Plagiarism – University of Illinois
• Paraphrasing & Citation

Handling Stress

• Are you totally stressed out?
• Managing Stress
• Oxford Brookes University - Managing Stress
• University of Adelaide
• 4 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Failure
• Overcoming Failure
• The Four Room Apartment Model of Change
• Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent and Cope with Stress
• Managing Stress: A Wellness Lifestyle Approach
• Tiredness

Presentation Skills

• Presentation Skills
• The University of Queensland
• Giving an Academic Talk
• Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School
• Scott Berkun on Public Speaking (video)
• Public Speaking Articles (Toastsmasters International)
• Toastmasters Podcast
• Overcoming Presentation Anxiety

Teamwork

• Group Decision Making
• Group roles: maximizing group performance
• Teamwork Skills: Being an Effective Group Member
• Meeting strategies to help prepare students for group work
• Making group contracts

Maths and Science

• HippoCampus
• Math Study Skills
• The Khan Academy
• Science
• Flinders University

English

• Start Learning English! – Basic
• Start Learning English! – Intermediate
• English Language (ESL) Learning Online
• Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students
• English Language Games
• Thesaurus
• Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry
• Grammar - Runs-ons and Fragments
• Grammar - Agreement Errors
• Grammar - Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements
• Grammar - Pronoun Reference
• Grammar - Parallelism
• Grammar - Mixed Constructions
• Grammar - Misplaced Modifiers
• Grammar - Passive Voice
• Grammar - Gender Neutral Language
• Punctuation - Commas
• Punctuation - Semicolons and Colons
• Punctuation - Dashes, Parentheses, Brackets, Ellipses
• Punctuation - Quotation Marks

Extra Links

• http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-students
• http://sass.queensu.ca/learningstrategies/
• http://www.kent.ac.uk/learning/resources/resources.html
• http://success.oregonstate.edu/asc-success-resources
• http://www.udayton.edu/ltc/learningresources/learningandstudy/learning_tools.php
• http://www.dcu.ie/studentlearning/student-learning-topics.shtml
• http://cll.mcmaster.ca/resources/resources_by_topic.html