Resources for CDU students
Succeeding at university depends to a very large extent on your ability to satisfy the assessment requirements of your course. These requirements generally involve having to write essays or reports in response to assignment questions or to sit for exams (where you also often have to write essays). For this reason, the content in this website is focused mainly on the academic literacy abilities - the reading and writing skills - that students need in order to satisfy course assessment requirements.
Essay writing
- Overiew
- CDU higher education assessment grades (Have a realistic expectation about the sort of grades you are likely to receive for your assignments.)
Referencing
Referencing is not difficult but it does require attention to detail in order to get it right. Find out more >>
Developing your academic vocabulary
- The Academic Word List (Coxhead, 2000)
- AWL practice exercises:
Exams (preparation and performance)
Exam preparation links
- www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/study/exam/1.xml
- www.courseworks.unimelb.edu.au/researchandwriting/exampreparation.php
- www.services.unimelb.edu.au/llsu/resources/exams.html
- www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/1_StudySkills/04examrevision.htm
- www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/lls/download/Exam%20Preparation.pdf
- www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/exam.html
- www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/esex.html
- www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/exkey.html
- www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/pdf/multiex.pdf [multiple choice exams]
- www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/obe.html [open book and take home exams]
- www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/obe1.html [open book and take home exams]

