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How to Study During a Sweltering Heatwave

Summer might be rounding out for 2020 but that doesn’t mean that the odd heatwave won’t come about. And with semester 1 coming up in just a week or so, here are a few ways to study successfully whilst staying cool no matter where you are...

Cultivating Creativity

by Mary Appleby Creativity is not something that usually comes to mind when you think of study or university. However, it can be the key to maintaining motivation and being successful in your studies. We all begin each session the same; setting...

Keep your brain ticking over summer

After a busy and tiresome year at uni, the thought of completing another session in summer school can be somewhat daunting. It’s important to remember you are not alone and simply think of completing a subject as one step closer to reaching your...

Trouble starting assignments? Here’s a helping hand

Whether you’re studying online or on campus, you need to stay on top of your assessments as they can easily sneak up on you. You may be up-to-date with discussion posts, homework tasks and your readings, but wait… you check your course...

The ultimate guide to referencing

To make it at university, we have to know how to reference correctly. Unnecessary marks can be lost because of simple referencing errors, so here is your ultimate guide to knowing what correct referencing is, when it should be used and how to do it...

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Five ways to reference like a pro

Don’t get to the stage where you want to pull your hair out the next time you need to reference an assignment. If you keep track of all your sources and get into a referencing flow, the whole process can be much easier. We caught up with CSU’s...

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Tips to get you through yet another year

by Amy Carlon For those students already stressing about session one (where did the holidays go?) and for the overly organised like myself, here are a few ways to organise your work load for uni. These are just a few things I do to make sure I’m...

Dear first-year self: referencing

As part two of this series, we will be considering the importance and value of mastering the art of referencing at an early stage in your tertiary studies. At the end of session three, I will be finished my master’s degree, and I’ll be...

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