Improving your study skills at Essex

Study skills resources on the University of Essex website:

Key skills support at Essex:
- The Essex Skills Award - a skills development programme aimed at first year undergraduate students.
- Key Skills Online - step-by-step advice on how to improve any of the key skills.
HelpDisk! 2.4: an online essay-writing tutorial (campus only).
Basic IT Skills: online tutorials covering Word, e-mail, the web, Excel, PowerPoint and bibliographic searching.
All new students in the schools of Humanities and Comparative Studies and Social Sciences receive Notes on Essay Writing, published by the Undergraduate Schools Office.
The Library keeps a collection of books on study skills in the short loan collection.
Plagiarism - an online guide.
The Student Support Office offers additional support for students with disabilities.
Study skills workshops from the Student Support Office.