Reading and note taking
Develop your academic reading skills and improve the notes you make while reading and during lectures.
Online advice and tutorials
- How to make notes and read effectively: Plan your reading, read effectively, take notes, and make the most of your lectures and seminars.
- Studying with Event Capture: How you can make the most of these Event Capture recordings - adopting them as useful tools in your studies.
- Audio-recording lectures and seminars: Enhance your note taking.
- How to use e-books: Our guide to accessing, downloading and reading e-books.
- Studying with e-books: Our guide to making use of e-books for your studies.
- How to make notes and read effectively reading list: Suggested further reading on how to take notes, including mind-mapping and guidance for students with dyslexia.
Study skills workshops
From making notes to structuring your writing, we offer a number of study skills events to students which take place across all UWE Bristol campuses.
Study skills workshopsHow to record lectures and seminars
A guide to using audio recordings to enhance note taking in lectures, seminars, and other study sessions.
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Library study skills support
There are a number of workshops and other study support available from the library to help you develop your study skills.
Critical thinking and writing
Support to help you think critically about information, question assumptions and evaluate evidence.
Writing
Support to help you improve your essays, reports, projects and dissertations.
English language
Find out about English language and grammar support for students at UWE Bristol.