Search strategies and organization tools: find and store information better Learn how to search using Boolean operators. Explore some great online archives and databases of research material. Try out some online organization tools, including Evernote.

Master note-taking

You’ll spend a great deal of time taking notes and just as long trying to reinterpret them! Learn how to make the most of this skill to improve your learning and save time on revision.

Academic integrity: plagiarism and referencing

Make sure you know how to avoid plagiarism and learn some helpful tips to speed up and refine your referencing.

Read well: write better

Learn how to read more in less time, and simultaneously improve your writing skills and essay structure.

Truth, post-truth and nothing like the truth

Develop your journalist skills and channel your inner detective by learning how to assess the credibility of information sources.

Essay-writing basics

Sharpen up your academic writing skills and learn how to write the essay your teachers want to read. Feel free to bring examples of marked work with written feedback so we can troubleshoot your own work.

Reflective writing

Learn how to write reflectively for work logs, blogs and portfolios.

We also offer 6^th form level practical workshops on how to find and critically assess quality research in Science, Medicine and Psychology.