Skills@Essex
Skills@Essex is a bank of study skills resources on Moodle, designed to enhance your academic and personal development throughout your studies. All students have access to enrol on to Skills@Essex.
Topics on Skills@Essex
This resource is designed to support your development during your time at the University. We offer a range of resources to supplement your studies, including:
Reading
- Academic argument
- Digital reading
- Reading for academic purposes
Writing
- Grammar
- Lab report writing for the biosciences
- Note-taking
- Process writing
- Quoting, paraphrasing and summarising
- Structuring academic essays
- Writing in the disciplines (example questions and answers)
Speaking, listening and presentations
- Effective presentations
- Speaking skills
Mathematics, statistics and coding
- Algebra
- Basic statistics
- Numeracy and arithmetic
- Python basics for beginners
- Scientific method
Research and referencing
- Academic integrity
- Literature search
- Referencing guidance
Study skills
- Academic resilience
- Critical thinking
- Digital skills at Essex
- Independent learning
- Finding support at Essex
- Library basics
- Preparing for your exams
- Problem solving
- Revision skills
- Time management
- Working in groups and teams
Embedded teaching
Skills for Success works closely with your department to embed academic skills support within degree programmes. This means that we are a direct part of your studies where it is most useful to you. For more details of how this is relevant to you, please contact skills@essex.ac.uk.
We value your thoughts
We are constantly enhancing and evolving this useful resource. We would love to hear your thoughts on how we can improve our Moodle pages further. We welcome your ideas on not only which additional content you would like to see, but also how we can enhance its delivery to improve the learning experience.
Do get in touch with us:
- to provide feedback on topics / content suggestions for Skills@Essex
- to feedback on any of the content on Skills@Essex
- if you have any questions or technical issues
