ASO fact sheets
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: In-text references (49k)
- Author-date: Referencing examples (64k)
- Author-date: The reference list (52k)
- Author-date: Quoting authors (32k)
- Electronic Referencing Examples (52k)
- Avoiding plagiarism (44k)
- Footnoting (104k)
- 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 correctly
- Grammar: common terms (40K)
- Grammar: parallel structure (36K)
- Grammar: subject-verb agreement (44K)
- Grammar: using pronouns (44K)
- Grammar: verb tenses (45K)
- Numbers in academic writing (44K)
- Punctuating with apostrophes (36k)
- Punctuating with capital letters (41K)
- Punctuating with commas (36k)
- Punctuating with semicolons and colons (40k)
- Sentences: active/passive voice and nominalisation (36k)
- Sentence endings (32k)
- Sentence problems (49k)
- Sentence types (40k)
- 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)
Writing different paragraph types
- Argument (44k)
- Classification (44k)
- Comparison and/or contrast (48k)
- Definition (44k)
- Description (40k)
- Explanation (40k)
- Illustration (40k)
- Recount (44k)
Mathematics
- A brief introduction to set theory (216K)
- Commonly used metric system units and symbols (156K)
- Formulae for surface area and volume (168K)
- Ratios (148K)
- Scientific notation (152K)
- Significant figures (140K)