Student Experience Project
Stepping up to Honours
An interactive skills building lecture for all 3rd and 4th year students
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as a ‘major shift in gear’ and Stepping up to
Honours will provide you with practical tools and tips that you can use to take a proactive
approach to the new challenges that Honours will bring.
Based on research that asked new first year
students what they wanted to
Based on student feedback on stepping up to 3rd and 4th year, this lecture will offer
know, this lecture will offer a variety of skill building activities for new
Honours level academic skill building activities in the following key areas:
undergraduate students and answer the following questions:
 Planning and managing longer essays, larger assignments and research projects
 Performing extended literature searches and compiling longer literature
reviews
-how does
university work and how can I achieve success in this new
 Enhancing your capacity for analytical, critical and creative thinking
environment?
 Taking a more in depth approach to your subject
- I've
told
to own
critically
evaluate
 been
Finding
your
academic
voicesomething, how do I do that properly?
 Bringing new levels of sophistication to your own work
-What is academic writing?
The session will also offer you the opportunity to have your own questions answered.
-Do I have to reference everything?
Where?
: David
Towerdone?
Faculty Room North
-How
will
I get Hume
everything
When? : do
Wednesday
17th
September 1330-1500
-Where
I go if I am
stuck?
Book your place now on MyEd
The
session will also offer you the opportunity to have your own questions
https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk/
answered.
Log on with your Ease Password
Event listed under Event Booking tab
Or email
Abby.Shovlin@ed.ac.uk
Where?
: David
Hume Lecture Theatre B
When? : Wednesday 24th September 1330: 1500