Handbook for Personal Tutors

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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Requirements
• 3. Meeting your Tutees
• 4. Confidentiality, Recording and References
• 5. Setting Boundaries and when to refer on
• 6. Skills of an Effective Personal Tutor
• 7. Common Issues for Tutees
• 8. Effective Advice on Study Skills
  • 8.1. Academic writing
  • 8.2 Reading and Understanding Texts
  • 8.3 Referencing and Plagiarism
  • 8.4 Research, Library and Computer Skills
  • 8.5 Time/Workload Management
  • 8.6 Presentation Skills
  • 8.7 Exams and Revision
  • 8.8 Learning from Feedback
  • 8.9 Using the Keele Learning Environment (KLE)
  • 8.10 Where to refer
• 9. Pastoral Support
• 10. Course and Module Information
• 11. Support for Personal Tutors

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• 8. Effective Advice on Study Skills

8. Effective advice on study skills

The distinction between the kind of subject-specific advice and support provided by module tutors at programme level on the one hand, and general guidance on academic issues provided by personal tutors on the other, may often be blurred in practice when a student approaches you for help with study skills. However, it is important that students understand this distinction. The role of the personal tutor is not to help with problems on individual modules, but rather to deal with any general academic issues.

This section of the handbook discusses some common academic issues that arise:

8.1. Academic writing

8.2 Reading and understanding texts

8.3. Referencing and plagiarism

8.4 Research, library and computer skills

8.5 Time/workload managment

8.6 Presentation skills

8.7. Exams and revision

8.8. Learning from feedback

8.9 Using the KLE

8.10 Where to refer

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