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Other universities have advice for postgraduates, e.g. how to submit a conference paper

We will be looking at what content we can add for postgraduates for the 25-26 academic year, working with the Graduate School.

More examples of acceptable and unacceptable paraphrasing would be useful

We can look at this as part of our annual review and consider whether we can create content for the 25-26 academic year.

It is too text-heavy and not very visual 

We have already transferred a lot of the content into infographics and we will continue with this work.  We will also continue to investigate other modes of conveying information such as videos and tutorials

Move towards some more subject/department specific resources especially for sciences.   Perhaps in the Writing for assignments tab there could be separate folders for generic writing skills, those for the humanities and sciences.   This might make it easier for students from different faculties to identify the best support.

This is a great suggestion and we will look at providing more resources for science students.   However we are unable to provide subject specific resources at the moment.

add in some information on how to use some of the newer online reference management tools e.g.  MyBib and Scribbr.  Lots of students are now using these but still misformatting their references, because they don't think about the settings. 

This is a really useful suggestion and we are working on producing some guidance which should appear soon in the Librarians' Blog. 

Having a look at some of the infographics to do with essay writing, I think some of them are a bit text heavy or could have a more visually appealing layout.  But the content itself is really good.

Glad you enjoyed the content.  It’s a difficult balancing act to provide enough content and make it visually appealing and not too text-heavy.  We’ll review our infographics over the summer. 

More options around dissertation skills and statistical analysis and research skills.   Particularly for postgraduate students.  

Thank you, we will include this in our review of PG Information

More resources for neurodivergent study skills.

We would like to develop this aspect of our provision and we’ll speak to our colleagues in Student Services about providing resources in this area.  

Some of the information about the Language Skills Support is incorrect. 

We’ve amended some of the Information and raised with our colleagues so it should be correct now  

It's dated in look and feel.  There's lots of online learning software that could be used to make it more attractive and easier to use. 

We are looking at different ways of conveying information that may be easier for our students.  We’ll continue to review how we present information. 

I propose short video essays as an alternative/addition (to text-heavy content) 

Thanks for this suggestion.  We’ll look at how we can adapt some of our content to video over the Summer.