The document provides tips and guidance for students starting at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). It recommends using tutors' recommendations on Canvas or the LJMU library to find quality sources to read. A video demonstrates how to effectively read sources by considering what the author is saying and how it compares to other writers. Students are advised to break down assignment questions, check word meanings, and review learning objectives to understand what is required. More time should be spent reading, taking notes, and planning than writing. Notes do not need to be neat but should be useful. When writing, paragraphs should follow a WEED structure of stating the topic, explaining it, providing evidence, and relating it back to the questions.

1. Getting
Started at
LJMU
Welcome from the Academic
Achievement Team

4. Remember you
have more time
than you think
and can work
anywhere!

6. But to find the best things to
read and listen to use your
tutor's recommendations on
Canvas or the LJMU library.

8. Have a look at this video to get some
more ideas about academic sources.

9. How to read your sources.
• What are they telling me?
• How does this compare to what other
writers are telling me?
• What do I think of it?

10. Zoom in

11. Zoom Out

12. This prepares
you for your
assignments....

13. Things to know about assignments
Break down the question
Check what the words mean
Look at your learning objectives on Canvas to see what your tutors want from you
Spend longer reading, note making and planning than writing it
Want to know more about how to do this? Click this link to enrol on the Canvas Module.

14. So, what next.....
• Answer these questions by making notes
• Three things to know......

15. Purpose
Keep asking yourself this
question -
Why are you making
these notes?
For a class or an
assignment?

16. Want some
more
ideas.......
Remember your notes do not need to look so pretty
they just need to be useful.

17. Using your
notes to write:
things to think
about
Do not read, write, and think all at the
same
No I or my
No short forms – don't/can't/isn't
Try to use the specialist language from
your subject
Write in paragraphs

18. So paragraphs: WEED Structure
• What the paragraph is about
• Explain what you are writing about
• Evidence from your reading is needed
• Do something with the information - think back to your reading questions

20. What next