Developing Your Academic Skills
Good for you, for clicking this link. Everyone, from first-year students up to professors, can improve their academic skills: it's always a good idea to keep learning how to learn!
Guidelines for academic referencing in the anthropology style are here.
Links to York Resources may be found here.
Concerned about connecting your degree to life after university? A book by York profs for students: "Flourishing at University and Beyond" www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=4997
Online Study Skills Advice
Learning Skills at York: www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/index.htm
York Counselling and Development Centre: www.yorku.ca/cdc/general.htm
Note-taking alternatives:
Mind-mapping: www.maps.jcu.edu.au/netshare/learn/mindmap/index.html, www.mind-map.com/mindmaps_howto.htm
Cornell System: www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/cornell.html
Memory: http://www.memory-key.com/
Advanced reading strategies:
SQ4R: www.scs.tamu.edu/selfhelp/elibrary/sq4r.asp
Help with Writing
York Centre for Academic Writing www.arts.yorku.ca/caw/students.html,
English as a Second Language Open Learning Centre www.yorku.ca/eslolc
Online Writing Advice
Purdue's Online Writing Lab is an excellent resource. These handouts are particularly recommended:
Researching and Documenting Sources
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style includes excellent writing advice.
McMaster's Centre for Student Development has some useful material here: http://csd.mcmaster.ca/css/booklets.html
Michael Harvey's Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/
Recommended Books
Some general advice on meeting the challenges of higher education – e.g., time management, learning strategies, advanced reading skills – may be found in many books, such as these sources:
Joan Fleet, Fiona Goodchild, and Richard Zajchowski. 1999. Learning for success: effective strategies for students, 3rd edition. Toronto: Harcourt. ISBN: 0774736593
Kenneth A. Kiewra, Nelson F. DuBois. 1998. Learning to learn: making the transition from student to lifelong learner. Toronto: Allyn and Bacon. ISBN: 0205263194