Images can add to a presentation by helping to explain a point or making it more memorable. They also make your presentation ...

Bridging the gap between school, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels involves overcoming differences in teaching styles, ...

Ansgar is an Applied Microeconomist, who uses applied game theory, empirical Microeconomic methods and laboratory experiments ...

But the students came regularly and liked the commitment of meeting a writing group for 2 hours while some of their housemates were still in bed. People came from a number of different colleges and it ...

While walking through the library yesterday, I was fortunate enough to have been present to the annual last minute cram-a-thon: groups of students huddling around tables, frantically trying to absorb ...

With the best will in the world, there will be days or even weeks where you don’t meet the goals you set yourself. When this happens there is the temptation to give up entirely. Don’t. Just start ...

Here, the collocation watch/TV is much stronger than a variation on it, e.g. I saw the TV until 2:30am. While the example above is very basic, the premise applies to other vocabulary... Vocabulary ...

Malcom Gladwell wrote a book called Outliers and titled one of the chapters “The 10,000 Hour Rule”. He argued that people become experts in their field after 10,000 hours of practice. He noted many ...

You might have heard before the idea that the more you think a thought, the more deeply engrained it becomes in your mind. You could see these thoughts like pathways through a field of grass – the ...

The competition made us think about the idea of setting goals. We thought we’d share some of the tips and tricks we’ve learned along the way to help you set, and achieve your goals for this term. Goal ...

The reduction in words gained by eliminating the repetition is about 30%! If you struggle to fit everything into the word count, going through your essays looking for repetition and redundancy could ...

The introductions you write to your essays are the ‘first impressions’ your lecturer will have of your work. If they are well organised and clear it makes the right impression – i.e. that you have ...