The Skills for Learning Podcast series explores a variety of study skills topics such as essay writing, plagiarism and statistics.

Episode details & downloads

• Time Management - Student Comments

  10th March 2010

  Duration: 7 minutes

  Do you manage your time effectively? Listen to Leeds Met students talking about their time management problems and the different ways in which they cope.

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• Analysing research data - Part 1

  3rd February 2010

  Duration: 7 minutes

  Are you collecting data for a research project? Do you know the difference between metric data and ordinal data? Find out more by listening to Academic Skills Tutor, John Taylor, in conversation with two students who need help with understanding the different types of quantitative data.

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• Essay Writing - Originality and Essay Style

  7th January 2010

  Duration: 7 minutes

  Academic Skills Tutors, Michael Shields and Max McMurdo, discuss how important originality is and the use of the first person in essay writing with recent graduate Sarah Hotchkin.

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• Avoiding Plagiarism

  3rd December 2009

  Duration: 6 minutes

  How exactly would you define plagiarism? Learning advisers from Skills for Learning, Karen Croft and Maria Kulas, talk to a student about what is meant by the term plagiarism and how to avoid committing plagiarism in your own work.

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• Essay Writing - Starting Your Essay

  5th November 2009

  Duration: 8 minutes

  Academic Skills Tutors Michael Shields and Max McMurdo talk about essays with recent graduate Sarah Hotchkin, covering issues such as interpreting essay questions, reading lists and literature searches.

  Download 'Essay Writing - Starting Your Essay' as an MP3 file (right click & 'Save Target As…') - 6MB