ASO Fact Sheets
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- Study Skills
- Referencing
- Writing Essays, Reviews and Reports
- Writing Different Paragraph Types
- Writing Sentences
The ASO has developed a series of fact sheets that answer the questions most frequently asked by students. You'll find them handy to keep on file so that you can refer to them when writing assignments or preparing for exams.
Study Skills
- Critical Thinking (40k)
- Dealing with Exams (40k)
- Note-making (160k)
- Preparing for Exams (40k)
- Support for higher degree research students (160k)
- Time management (36k)
Referencing
- Appendices (68k)
- Author-date Referencing Examples (96k)
- Avoiding Plagiarism (44k)
- Electronic Referencing Examples (124k)
- Footnoting (104k)
- Using quotes (author-date system) (32k)
- Using quotes (footnoting system) (48k)
- Writing an annotated bibliography (32k)
Writing Essays, Reviews and Reports
- Analysing the question (30k)
- Formatting an essay (84k)
- Paragraph (44k)
- Paraphrasing and summarising (28k)
- Revising and editing an essay (28k)
- Writing an abstract (40k)
- Writing an essay (32k)
- Writing a formal report (40k)
- Writing: hints on style for scientific and technical writing (28k)
- Writing a literature review (32k)
- Writing a scientific report (32k)
Writing Different Paragraph Types
- Argument (44k)
- Classification (44k)
- Comparison and/or contrast (48k)
- Definition (44k)
- Description (40k)
- Explanation (40k)
- Illustration (40k)
- Recount (44k)
Writing Sentences
- Grammar: common terms (40K)
- Grammar: parallel structure (36K)
- Grammar: subject-verb agreement (44K)
- Grammar: using pronouns (44k)
- Numbers in academic writing (44K)
- Punctuation: semicolons and parentheses (40k)
- Punctuation with apostrophes (36k)
- Punctuation with commas (36k)
- Run-on sentences (40k)
- Sentences (40k)
- Sentences: active/passive voice and nominalisation (36k)
- Sentence endings (32k)
- Sentence fragments (36k)
- Shortened forms of words (36k)
- Spelling problem words (36k)
- Spelling rules (44k)
- Using articles (36k)
- Using however (36k)
- Using hyphens (36k)
- Using non-discriminatory language (36k)
- Using relative clauses (36k)
- Using sentence connectors (36k)