New Brand PowerPoint templates for teaching

The templates plus a couple of videos showing how to use them

CV Exemplar and Links

a pdf and word format document which level 1 students can use as an examplar or template for their CV. Also includes links to example CVs and sites which help of creating CVs

Including Figures in your Thesis

This 10-minute video shows you how you can include image files in your thesis. By using the University template and special styles, you will be able to automate their numbering and references to them in the text, as well as generate tables of figures.

Combining Thesis Chapters but restarting footnote numbering every chapter

This 3-minute video shows you how to combine chapters of your thesis but force footnotes to be numbered from 1 within each chapter.

Collection Engineering Foundation Year, Sustaining Success, Week 2

slidses, portfolio template, portfolio summary, example feedback, video link

The Spectrum of knowledge - starting off

A few files for background reading

Spectrum Posters

Please load your posters to this share!

Assembing Chapters into the Final Thesis

This 17 minute video provides a step-by-step guide to assembling the separate chapters of a thesis into a single document. It shows you how to ensure continuous page numbers and separate chapter headers, as well as auto-generating a table of contents and table of figures.

Using Tables of Contents in MS Word 2010

A Table of Contents can be automatically generated and refreshed in a Word document so long as you use Heading styles (see the Heading Styles video). This video shows how to use Tables of Contents in the University’s Thesis Template. For best viewing Download the video.

Using Tables of Figures in MS Word 2010

A Table of Figures, Tables or Equations can easily be created and refreshed in Word. This video shows how to add captions to your tables, figures or equations; and how to refresh the Table of Figures and Table of Tables in the University’s Thesis Template. For best viewing Download the video.

Using Footnotes and Endnotes in MS Word 2010

Word 2010 has features that make it easy to add footnotes to the bottom of pages and end notes to the end of a document or at the end of a section. See how to use these features with the University’s thesis template. For best viewing Download the video.

Using Tables of Contents in MS Word 2011

A Table of Contents can be automatically generated and refreshed in a Word document so long as you use Heading styles (see the Heading Styles video). This video shows how to use Tables of Contents in the University’s thesis template. For best viewing Download the video.

Using Captions, Tables of Tables and Tables of Figures in MS Word 2011

A Table of Figures, Tables or Equations can easily be created and refreshed in Word. See how to add Captions to your tables, figures or equations; and how to refresh the Table of Figures and Table of Tables in the University’s thesis template. For best viewing Download the video.

Modifying styles in MS Word 2011 for Apple computers

Applying Styles gives your document formatting consistency, but if you don't like how a Style looks then Modify the style to suit your need. Learn how to change font and paragraph attributes of Styles. For best viewing Download the video.

How to use styles when writing your thesis in MS Word 2011 (Mac) Manual

Writing your thesis will be made a whole lot easier if you learn to use styles. This document is written to show you how to create a consistent looking file with a table of contents. It makes considerable reference to the new University thesis template which can be downloaded from the same site as this manual.