Welcome

Performing well at university involves a unique range of skills. Understanding academic reading and writing is the key to your success at university as well as being invaluable to your future teaching career.

This site is designed to give you some useful tips on how to tackle some of the challenges you may face at university, to increase your ‘academic literacy’, and to improve your marks.

This website provides links to resources that will support you as you build these essential skills.

Unlock your academic potential by using any or all of these tips and resources.

If you have any ideas on how we might improve this web resource, or you’d like some extra help, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us

In addition, we would like to encourage you to visit the Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) website which also offers useful advice, special classes and even one-on-one support should you need it.

The TLC also offers a special credit unit, TLC120: Introduction to University Learning, for those of you in first year who wish to improve your learning opportunities.

If you have English as a second language, or you are an International student, you can find further support here:

Language and Academic Skills for ESL and International Students
http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/slearn/resource/skills.html

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