Now that you’re all settled into your new course or are back, ready for the first semester, we thought it’d be a good idea to highlight some of the great resources that you have access to!

With the excitement of the new semester starting, it is useful to take a step back and consider the support that is available for when assignments begin. A good place to start is thinking about how to present your ideas and make sure that you are explaining your arguments in a balanced and critical way.

That is where the Academic Phrasebook can help you to become a better critical writer. It has information about how to be critical, to compare and contrast arguments and how to give examples to reinforce and validate your claims in an essay.

There is also a section on how to ensure that you are referencing and using your sources correctly, making sure that you are not only avoiding plagiarism, but also making the most of your additional wider reading.