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Assignment Planning

*      Not sure when to start writing your assignment? Try the online Assignment Calculator. It will provide you with a personalised timetable for writing your assignment.
Remember to enter dates as MM-DD-YYYY

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Additional online courses

*      Improve your study skills with these free to use online courses. This superb resource for learners is provided free of charge by the Open University. The Learning space is at http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

*      Essay and report writing skills : 15 hours : Link

*      Reading and note taking : 12 hours : Link

*      Accessing, finding and reviewing information : 15 hours : Link

*      What is good writing? : 12 hours : Link

*      Learning how to learn : 6 hours : Link

*      Managing relationships : 4 hours : Link

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Using the library systems

*      Video guide to using MetaLib Link

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Critical analysis

*      Ever seen the comment ‘be more critical’ or, ’more analysis needed’ on your work, but do not know what your tutor actually means by it? Download this audio file, to find out how you can improve your critical analysis and thinking in your written work, and why it is just so important. Original source is here

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Search Engines

*      Intute -  free online service providing you with a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research

*      Google Scholar – an improvement on Google

*      Google – I couldn’t leave it out!

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Critical Incident Technique

*      http://apa.org/psycinfo/special/cit-intro.pdf

*      http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/criticalincidents.htm

*      http://wvvw.tiu.edu/psychology/Twelker/critical_incident_technique.htm

*      http://www.ucc.ie/hfrg/emmus/methods/cit.html

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Research Methods for Business Students

*      Saunders, M “Research Methods for Business Students” ISBN-10: 1405840099 [link]

*      Basic Business Research Methods

*      Internet for Social Research Methods  free, interactive tutorial to improve your Internet research skills

*      Web Center for Social Research Methods [link]

*      an invaluable tutorial and lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods

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