No. 2 (2010)

Papers

• The role and efficacy of generic learning and study support: what is the experience and perspective of academic staff?

  Richard Bailey

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• A comparison of staff perceptions and student experiences of issues associated with university

  Steve Briggs, Norma Pritchett

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• 'Very urgent, very difficult and quite possible': changing students' attitudes to notemaking by encouraging user generated content

  Tom Burns, Sandra Frances Sinfield, Debbie Holley, Kate Hoskins

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• From Deficiency to Development: the evolution of academic skills provision at one UK university

  Pat Hill, Amanda Tinker, Stephen Catterall

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• A little and often: unanticipated outcomes from an ePortfolio evaluation impacting on early identification of risk and non submission of work

  Megan Lawton, Emma Purnell

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• The fragmented route to a whole institution approach to integrating learning development. Reporting on a work in progress

  Janette Myers, Frances Gibson

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• More than just having the right headings: Supporting students' report writing

  Michelle Reid

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• Scholarship in Mathematics Support Services

  Peter Samuels, Chetna Patel

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• Creating learning communities: three social software tools

  Amanda Tinker, Gillian Byrne, Christine Cattermole

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• Maximising student learning through minimising information search time; the role of satisficing and skimming.

  Susan Wilkinson

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Case Studies

• That's writing talk: An insight into the Academic Writing Readers Group

  Rebecca Bell

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• Embedding report writing workshops into an undergraduate Environmental Science module through a subject specialist and learning developer partnership

  Robert Martin Blake, Jacqueline Pates

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• Using Turnitin as a formative writing tool.

  Judy Cohen

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• Referencing@Portsmouth: a web-based, interactive referencing tool

  Roisin Gwyer, Linda Jones, James Stewart Matthews, Anne Worden

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Opinion Pieces

• A tandem journey through the labyrinth

  Marcia B Baxter Magolda

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• Neither teacher-centred nor student-centred: threshold concepts and research partnerships

  Glynis Cousin

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• Reasons to be cheerful?

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