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Learning to learn

Secrets of postgraduate study success

You have enrolled in a postgraduate degree by coursework. What are the academic expectations?

As with any university study, the focus is on taking a scholarly approach to learning. An introduction to postgraduate learning on the Study skills website may help demystify some of those expectations and provides links to a range of resources.

Expectations and resources

In a postgraduate degree you are expected to …

Expectation Resources
present informed opinion not just facts

* Critical analysis
* Using the ideas and words of others in your writing

use relevant up-to-date sources

* Library services to support research
* Smart web searching and evaluating resources
* Learn to use the catalogue and databases

read widely and efficiently

* Effective reading
* Library services to support research
* Information literacy
* Databases by subject
* Deakin University Library

acknowledge your sources

* Avoiding plagiarism
* Guide to assignment writing and referencing (383KB)

use the correct referencing system

* How to reference internet sources
* Referencing using the author-date (Harvard) system
* Referencing using the documentary-note (Oxford) system
* Referencing using the APA (American Psychological Association) system
* Referencing using law style

write in an academic manner

* Using the ideas and words of others in your writing
* Editing

Further information

 

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17th March 2011