Sheffield Hallam University aims to provide an excellent educational experience to all its students. As an institution, we enable our students to

• get involved in  University life and opportunities to influence University’s offer to them
• develop a sense of belonging to university community and feel their contributions are valued and celebrated
• get information about services and opportunities which are inclusive and accessible

There are a whole host of online resources that you can access as a student studying at one of our partnership institutions. For more information, find your institution on our library gateway list and see how we can help to support you.

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.