A Wee Blether About...

A Wee Blether About...

by Academic Skills - UWS

Season 6

A Wee Blether About...Turnitin

In this episode, Linda, John, Carly and Mairi discuss Turnitin, which you will almost certainly use to submit assignments at UWS. They explain what a similarity report is and how best to interpret the results from that.

Another Wee Blether About...Group work at UWS

In this episode, Linda, John and Carly talk about how to make group work work!

A Wee Blether About...Good Study Habits

In this episode, Linda, Carly and Mairi share their tips for how to study more effectively.

A Wee Blether About...the Academic Skills Team

Time to re-introduce ourselves given that there have been a number of changes since we last did an introduction podcast two years ago, above all new members of staff! As ever Linda hosts and is joined by Mairi, John, Carly and Christa to introduce themselves and talk about what the service can offer you in 2024.

A Wee Blether About...Imposter Syndrome with Dr Chloe Maclean

A special guest joins us for this episode. Dr Chloe Maclean is a lecturer at UWS and has written about the concept of 'imposter syndrome' in higher education. She joins Linda, John and Carly to discuss what this means and how to change this way of thinking.

A Wee Blether About...OSCOLA Referencing

In this episode, Linda, Carly and John discuss OSCOLA, which is the referencing system that Law students at UWS use. Carly mentions the OSCOLA guide which can be found at www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola

Another Wee Blether About...Referencing at UWS

In this episode, Linda, John and Carly discuss the important matter of referencing (again!), looking particularly at how to use the book Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide.

A Wee Blether About...Describe, Analyse and Evaluate

In this episode, Linda, Carly and John respond to a listener's request for an explanation of how to tackle assignment briefs with the words describe, analyse and evaluate in them.

Season 5

A Wee Blether About...Student Services Special with the Careers Team

Our very good friends, the Careers Team join us to chat about their work at UWS. In this episode, Uuganaa joins Linda and Carly for this episode. To contact the Careers Team, please email careers@uws.ac.uk

A Wee Blether About...Student Services Special with the International Team

Sarah joins the team to tell us all about the work the international team do to support students at UWS

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