You will find support and advice on our Academic Skills website covering useful study skills such as:
Skills for study - personalise your learning
Our library training and workshops pages give you access to many sessions such as finding information for your assignments, citing & referencing and plagiarism, evaluating web resources, open access, research data management, systematic reviews. Some are recorded so you can watch when convenient.
Your department will recommend which citing and referencing style you should use.
Use the Citing and Referencing guide to find out how to reference resources and which referencing style you should be using. There is also support on the different types of reference management software available to help you choose the right tool for you. Eg: Endnote or Mendeley
This activity will give you an introduction to referencing
Our Getting Started online course will give you an understanding of the transition between your school or college and studying at the University of Southampton and using our Library Services. The information you have found and used up to now, along with the skills you developed at school or college may be different from those you need during a degree course at university. This online course is designed to help you understand and prepare for the transition in the context of Information Literacy.
There are 6 sections each taking between 30 minutes to an hour to complete. Sections include:
Just got an assignment? Not sure how to start? This Assignment Planner is a step-by-step guide to help you plan, organise and find the resources you need to complete your assignment.
Planning your dissertation? Not sure where to start? The Dissertation Planner is a step-by-step guide to help you write a dissertation from starting to think about your question through to final submission. There is also a University of Southampton guide to producing your dissertation in Word.
Starting out on your research project? Use the Introduction to research methods course to discover the essential information and skills that you will need.