academic writing for students

Academic Writing YouTube playlist

QUT Business School Learning Advisor
Writing Introductions: understanding what it means to introduce
Approaching a Literature Review: Explain Your Reading in Relation to Your Research Project
Writing Reports with Recommendations
Reflection
Tips for Group Work
Tips for Writing a Literature Review
How to Read a Journal Article -- and how not to read what you don't need!
How to Approach an Annotated Bibliography

Writing Reports with Recommendations by Dr Carmen Keates

Carmen Keates: Writing Introductions: understanding what it means to introduce

How to read a journal article

Carmen Keates: How to Approach an Annotated Bibliography

iThenticate

There is Blackboard Community site on Plagiarism and thesis dissertations. Link to iThenticate: https://app.ithenticate.com/en_us/login

User name = your QUT student email address (for HDR students) or your QUT staff email address (for staff)

All higher degree research candidates will be confirmed as having access to iThenticate within a six to eight weeks of commencing their course at QUT. You will be sent a welcome email to your QUT student email address (from iThenticate) with details of your user name and temporary password.

All QUT supervisors registered as being accredited to supervise HDR candidates will have access to iThenticate. New staff will be granted access to the software after confirmation of their accreditation level. A welcome email will be sent to your QUT email address (from iThenticate) confirming your access and providing you with your user name and temporary password. Refer to your Faculty Administration Research Officers for further queries.

Click on the green "Forgot password" link if you forget or cannot access your password.

Never click on "Don't have an account? Sign up" as it invalidates your original login by creating another account and you will be asked to pay for additional iThenticate access. If you have clicked on the "Don't have an Account?" please contact your FRAO (noting reactivation of your account can take up to 10 working days).

Note that you should not contact iThenticate directly as your logon is under the QUT corporate account and consequently iThenticate cannot assist you. Your contact person for all iThenticate: Rebecca Lacey <rebecca.lacey@qut.edu.au>

Service notices

iThenticate are unable to provide QUT staff and HDR students with frequent updates on outages. Instead they have created a twitter account and a system status page to provide up to date notifications about service related issues:

System status page: http://www.ithenticate.com/status Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/iTHStatus

Referring students to SSG support

Staff can contact SSG through success.buslaw@qut.edu.au at any time

	Student to action/follow up	Central Success Coaches to action/follow up	SSG Bus/Law staff to action/follow up
When	Any time in semester	Early semester (setting up for success)	Time sensitive (assessment imminent + census etc.)
Best for	-students who would benefit from additional support -students who are likely to engage with support when/how it suits their needs	-students who may benefit from success coaching (study planning, goal setting, connecting to relevant resources & support) -students who have time to proactively plan for upcoming tasks	-at risk students -students unlikely to take action independently -students who have already had multiple points of contact
Process	Provide students links to support: Academic Help & Workshops Career advice, support & training Maths, science & IT support Business Law Student Learning Advisors	Complete Early alert form	Email: success.buslaw@qut.edu.au Add short description of identified need so appropriate team can action (Careers, Language & Learning or STEM)
Students can expect	-to find relevant support resources, activities and links based on their area of need	-contact from SSG Success Coach -option for further coaching or referral to SSG BusLaw team	-Contact from Bus/Law Educator (Careers, L&L or STEM) -1-1 appointment if required/accepted