Turning Point ResponseWare student guide

The brief guide tells you how to use your smart phone, tablet or laptop to vote in a Turning Point quiz. (Updated for October 2014)

Posing the question: an academic guide to planning essays

This guide will give you advice on picking your subject, question and methodology for an extended essay. It will also give you hints and tips on how to research for and structure the essay.

Making the case: an academic guide to research

This guide gives advice on the best ways to find and select the most useful, reliable and relevant information to support and argument in your essay.

Navigating the page: an academic guide to effective reading

This guide introduces you to the various reading styles that will help you get through your research most effectively. It gives tips on how to skim read, and also how to read critically.

Hammering the prose: an academic guide to writing essays

This guide covers how to structure your essay and develop an argument. It also gives advice on suitable academic writing styles, and how to go about the all important editing of your work.

ResponseWare student guide 2016

This document describes how students can access polls using their own device (laptop, tablet or phone) using either a web browser or an iOS or Android app.

JISC TechDis Accessibility essentials guide: Making electronic documents more readable

The TechDis Accessibility Essentials Guide for Reading has been divided into the following three sections: Font colours and styles; Enlarging text and Navigating documents. These guides have been designed to give practical step-by-step information to enable anyone reading electronic material to amend its look and feel into a style which suits them, their audience or the context in which it is used.

Learn, discover, develop and create: University of Southampton guide to research

The University of Southampton guide to research has been composed by the University’s academic librarians and is a gateway to resources listed by academic subject.