Learning Resources

The Learning Centre has developed online and print based learning resources to help students with a range of academic skills. The following resources are available:

Online Resources

• The Clearer Writing site is an on-line interactive course to improve the clarity of your writing, with a particular focus on well-structured and coherent paragraphs.

Links to Other Sites

• Annotated links to Australian or overseas websites which not only inform, but try to instruct or teach academic writing skills. These sites can help you develop different aspects of the academic writing skills you need as a University of Sydney student.
• The Write Site provides online support to help you develop your academic and professional writing skills. There are modules on grammar, using sources and structuring assignments.

Essay Writing

• Guidelines for Referencing
• Analysing an Essay Question
• Analytical Writing
• Developing and Supporting an Argument
• Planning and Structuring an Essay

Help with Report Writing in the Sciences

• Report writing in biology
  http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/BiologyLiteracy
• Report writing in biochemistry
  http://www.mmb.usyd.edu.au/report/BCHM3
  http://www.mmb.usyd.edu.au/report/BCHM2
• Report writing in psychology
  http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/teach/studentresources/writingguides/writingguides.html

Study Skills

• Understanding Yourself
• Being a More Effective Learner
• Using Planners and Plans

Resources for Postgraduate Research Students Students

• Writing a Thesis Proposal

This document provides models and guidelines for writing a thesis proposal with particular emphasis on the introductory stage and the expression of aims, research questions or hypotheses.