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Continuing your studies in third year here at Abertay? Wondering how to approach studying for your degree? Want to gain confidence in what you'll need before starting your course?
Then take the FREE Abertay College Transition (ACT) programme.
The online ACT programme is designed to help new third year students like you to settle into university life.
Identify the differences between college and university.
Understand what to expect when studying here.
Build up your academic skills.
Connect to Abertay support services and opportunities.
Nothing! It's completely free.
Once you've registered for university, you'll automatically get access to the ACT programme and you can use it whenever you like. It is delivered online via MyLearningSpace, Abertay’s online learning environment. While it is designed to help you get started, it will remain as a resource for you during your whole time here.
The ACT programme is organised in three sections. You can explore the sections in your own time and in any order. Programme materials will also direct you to extra online resources to support your studies, and connect you to student support services and opportunities to get involved with university life.
You'll learn how to navigate your way around the most useful Abertay systems before analysing your own digital capabilities to create a digital development plan. Then you focus on the importance of 'good academic practice' and how to engage in it. Finally, you will look at some of the academic support tools designed to help you with your coursework, and the different support teams here at Abertay.
You'll develop the important skills that you need before you start to write. The unit begins with a quick 101 on how to manage your time carefully so that you can keep up-to-date with your study workload. Then you'll cover understanding and planning your assignment and identifying trustworthy resources, before using a range of tools to search for information that you can evaluate and use to take notes. After that you'll learn about thinking critically and analysing information and ideas before synthesising your responses logically to help your reader.
This unit focuses on what you need to write assignments. To write effectively, you need to build good paragraphs and construct convincing arguments. You also need to write cohesively and coherently, keeping your reader in mind, and clearly link sections and paragraphs while being concise and precise.
Other skills include: how to integrate information from sources into your writing and cite or reference correctly, how to use writing technology tools, and how to write about data. Finally, you will also need to be able to proofread and edit your work carefully before you submit it.