ISIS reading group

Reading group on diverse topics of interest for the Information: Signals, Images, Systems (ISIS) Research Group of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Reading and research skills

University of Southampton, Dyslexia Services have developed a range of academic study skills resources available to download. This resource supports reading and research skills.

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.

Reading Other File Formats.doc (A1)

Notes on how to get from Excel, Access and Textfiles into SPSS. Used in Research Skills for Biomedical Science

MSc Audiology library induction, 2010

Library induction given to the postgraduate audiology students in October 2010. Session covers an introduction to the Hartley library including Library of Congress classification, finding items from reading lists, print journals, e-journals, search strategies including boolean operators and truncation and using online databases, in particular Web of Science.

Smart Meetings - background reading

Background reading for coursework to prepare a technical report as part of the orientation phase. These items are business documents (i.e. grey literature) which might be read as a prelude or complement to finding information in peer reviewed academic publications. grey literature links and articles to be used in preparation of technical report. See also overview guidance document for this assignment http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/8017/

Green IT (includes High Powered Computing) - background reading

Background reading for coursework to prepare a technical report as part of the orientation phase. These items are business documents (i.e. grey literature) which might be read as a prelude or complement to finding information in peer reviewed academic publications. grey literature links and articles to be used in preparation of technical report. See also overview guidance document for this assignment http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/8017/

Technical Report Background Reading Guidance and Links

Handout which contains a set of links to a variety of background resources associated with the topics for a technical report coursework. Resources are clustered into three overview areas, but contain links which be used to address each of the six questions scenarios.

COMP1205 Writing summaries: reading list

small set of selected papers from which to choose two papers to read and summarise

Disciplinary Differences: directed reading 1

Two articles outlining some early work on interdisciplinarity. Interesting as much for the style of the papers and the contents. You can download copies of the papers from this share. You can also access the full text via TDNET through the university library web site. Instructions provided.