Browse academic, research, digital and study skills guidance from the Skills Hub, plus selected guides from elsewhere at Abertay.
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Choose a letter below or browse the list. Some guides have more than one entry to help you find them under familiar terms.
A
- Academic and non-academic sources
- Academic posters in PowerPoint
- Academic writing: style
- Accessibility in Office documents
- Acknowledging AI use
- Acknowledging AI use: checklist
- AI and data privacy
- AI for academic reading
- AI for researching a topic
- AI for study skills
- AI for writing
- AI literacy: building your skills
- AI outputs: evaluating
- AI prompts
- AI risks and limitations
- AI rules and responsibilities
- AI terms and conditions
- AI: using AI in your studies
- AI writing detection: Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator
- APA referencing
- Assessment briefs: understanding the task
- Assessment planning
- Avoiding plagiarism
B
- Backups and file versions
- Bias: recognising and addressing it
- Boolean operators and advanced search techniques
C
- Cautious language in academic writing
- Checking literature for your dissertation topic
- Citation chaining: finding sources through references and citations
- Citing sources
- Cloud storage and file organisation
- Cohesion in academic writing
- Conflicting information: comparing sources
- Contents pages in Word
- Copilot: using AI in your studies
- Critical reading
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Cybersecurity for students
D
- Defining your assessment task and topic
- Digital skills: guides
- Dissertation topics: checking the literature
- Dissertation topics: narrowing your focus
E
- Editing your work
- Email etiquette
- Essay writing
- Evaluating AI outputs
- Evaluating information
- Evaluating journal articles
- Evaluating your claims in academic writing
- Evaluation frameworks
- Exam revision strategies
- Exams: guides
- Exams: tips and techniques
F
G
- Getting started with AI
- Getting started with assessments: guides
- Good academic practice
- Grammarly: guidance on use
- Grey literature and source types
H
I
J
L
M
- Managing information overload
- Managing your study time
- Misinformation and disinformation: recognising them
N
O
P
- Page numbers, headings and contents in Word
- Paraphrasing sources
- Planning your assessment
- Posters: creating an academic poster in PowerPoint
- Primary, secondary and other source types
- Prompting AI
- Proofreading your work
Q
R
- Reading academic texts
- Reading journal articles
- Recording a narrated presentation in PowerPoint
- Reference lists
- Referencing
- Referencing AI
- Reflective writing
- RefWorks Citation Manager
- RefWorks: importing references from databases
- RefWorks: managing your references
- Report writing
- Reporting verbs
- Research questions: developing a manageable focus
- Researching: guides
- Revision for exams
S
- Saving your work, backups and file versions
- Search and discovery tools
- Searching effectively
- Slide design for academic presentations in PowerPoint
- Source types: understanding the main distinctions
- Speaker notes and handouts in PowerPoint
- Summarising sources
T
- Tables, figures and captions in Word
- Time management: overview
- Track changes and comments in Word
- Turnitin: using and understanding your report
- Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator
U
W
- Word: citations with RefWorks Citation Manager
- Word: document layout, spacing and styles
- Word: page numbers, headings and contents
- Word: tables, figures and captions
- Word: track changes and comments
- Writing: academic writing guides
- Writing with an academic style
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