Sub sections:
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
- Dealing with exams
- Note-making
- Preparing for exams
- Support for higher degree research students
- Time management
Referencing (updated 19/2/13)
- APA: Referencing style examples
- APA: Internet referencing
- APA: In-text references
- APA: Quoting authors
- APA: The reference list
- AGLC3: Examples
- AGPS: Examples
- MLA: Examples
- Chicago (Author-Date): Examples
- Chicago (Footnoting): Examples
- Vancouver: Examples
- Footnoting (History): Examples
- Footnoting: Quoting authors
Writing essays, reviews and reports
- Analysing the question
- Appendices
- Formatting your essay
- Paragraphs: Academic writing (updated 11/3/11)
- Paragraphs: Connecting your ideas
- Paraphrasing and summarising (updated 11/3/11)
- Revising and editing an essay
- Writing a formal report
- Writing a literature review
- Writing a scientific report
- Writing an abstract
- Writing an annotated bibliography
- Writing an essay
- Writing: hints on style for scientific and technical writing
Writing correctly
- Grammar: Common terms
- Grammar: Parallel structure
- Grammar: Subject-verb agreement
- Grammar: Using articles (updated 11/3/11)
- Grammar: Using pronouns
- Grammar: Verb tenses (updated 11/3/11)
- Language usage: Non-discriminatory language (updated 24/3/12)
- Language usage: Shortened forms of words
- Numbers in academic writing (updated 2/8/11)
- Punctuating with apostrophes
- Punctuating with capital letters
- Punctuating with commas
- Punctuating with hyphens
- Punctuating with semicolons and colons (updated 8/3/11)
- Sentences: active/passive voice and nominalisation
- Sentence combining: coordination
- Sentence combining: subordination
- Sentence problems
- Sentence types
- Spelling problem words
- Spelling rules
Writing different paragraph types
- Argument
- Classification
- Comparison and/or contrast
- Definition
- Description
- Explanation
- Illustration
- Recount
Mathematics
- Introduction
- Arithmetic
- Algebra
- Fractions
- Indices
- Linear equations
- Graphs of straight lines
- Quadratic equations
- Graphs of quadratic equations (parabola)
- Inequalities
- Geometry
- Logarithms
- Trigonometry
- Matrices
- Calculus
- Set theory
- Probability
- Statistics
- Test all topics
- Mathamatical symbols
- Statistical symbols