Academic Skills PAL
Library Study Skills workshop
Key Information:
- Date and time
- Tue 19 March 2024
10:00 - 11:00 - Location
- Online: Online MS Teams
- Contact
- pal@uwe.ac.uk
- Cost
- Free
- Attendance
- Booking required
Description
Be reading smart! How? By picking up top tips on how to improve your reading strategies to improve your marks and make reading easier to manage. Join PAL Leaders, Finn and Jess for this interactive and supportive session, and connect with other students too.
During this student-led session, you will have the opportunity to:
- Discuss challenges you have with reading for university work
- Reflect on the importance of reading for your assignments
- Learn more about reading lists and how to get the most out of them
- Try out some reading strategies like skimming, scanning, topic sentences and navigating journal articles.
Location
This is an online event: Online MS Teams
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