Applying for PhDs - Some advice for Masters students

Detailed notes to support Masters students in applications to undertake PhD work. There are specific sections relating to NERC funding as well as UK, EU and non-EU citizens.

New Brand PowerPoint template - good practice advice

This short video introduces the new teaching templates and provides advice about good slide design

INFO2009 CW2 2012-13 Briefing, advice and organisation

Notes on group organisation process and planning

COMP1205 Preparing Presentations Informal Advice

How to create a PDF from Prezi

Academic integrity at the University of Southampton

This is a two part audio podcast designed to provide advice and guidance for students at the University of Southampton. Transcripts for each part of the podcast are also provided.

Participating in a Conference

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. In this presentation we look at the different ways that you can participate in an academic conference: Paper, poster and demo, and give some advice on each.

What Employers Want

collection of resources to help students understand what employers want links to a GRA document "Graduate Careers of the 21st Century"

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.

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.

Getting your point across: an academic guide to giving presentations

This guide gives advice on how to plan, deliver and reflect upon an academic presentation.

Supporting Writing

advice and links related to writing for engineers

Blackboard Good Practice Guide

This short (4 sides of A4) document provides advice to tutors about essential and recomended practices, organisational principles, blended learning, accessibility and copyright.

Creative Commons Quiz/Lecture notes/Lecture slides(group 22)

The resource set of info2009 coursework 2 is produced by group22. it contains: 1. poster 2. internet link of a set of multiple questions 3. a pdf file of a set of multiple questions 4. reference list 5. lecture slides 6. lecture notes ps: Edward Payne (ejp1x07@ecs.soton.ac.uk) has not contributed to any part of the activities.

The legal aspects of lecture capture

This short 7-minute video outlines the main legal issues around lecture capture: copyright, student rights and lecturer rights. It includes detailed advice about the types of material that you should not record, as well as showing how to check whether material can be used.