Reading and note taking
Develop your academic reading skills and improve the notes you make while reading and during lectures.
Online advice and tutorials
- How to make notes and read effectively: Plan your reading, read effectively, take notes, and make the most of your lectures and seminars.
- Reading effectively: Decide which material you need to read and in how much detail; absorb information more efficiently and effectively (source: Skills for Study website).
- Making notes while reading: Making effective notes while reading is a crucial academic skill (source: Skills for Study website).
- Making notes during lectures: How to prepare for lectures, listen, understand, and use your own notes and your lecturers' prepared notes (source: Skills for Study website).
- Studying with Event Capture: How you can make the most of these Event Capture recordings - adopting them as useful tools in your studies.
- Audio-recording lectures and seminars: Enhance your note taking.
- How to use e-books: Our guide to accessing, downloading and reading e-books.
- Studying with e-books: Our guide to making use of e-books for your studies.
- Take notes from your reading and lectures: Suggested further reading on how to take notes, including mind mapping and guidance for students with dyslexia.
How to record lectures and seminars
A guide to using audio recordings to enhance note taking in lectures, seminars, and other study sessions.
Record lectures and seminars
Library study skills support
There are a number of ways you can get support from the library, such as talking to us at helpdesks, using our online chat service, booking 1:1s or attending workshops.
Library study skills support
