Academic Skills and Support

Academic and study skill support are available in the form of online resources, workshops and consultations. All information is available in Your Academic Skills Toolkit:

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Your Academic Skills Toolkit is a Canvas Site located on your study dashboard. It provides you with a range of online resources to enhance your academic skills. Topics include:
  • Getting started for new students
  • Academic expectations and tips for success
  • Time management and organisation
  • Effective reading strategies
  • Time saving note-taking strategies
  • Assessment task deconstruction
  • Academic genre structures such as essays, literature reviews, reflective writing, case reports, annotated bibliographies, conference and class presentations
  • Research resources
  • Sorting and structuring information
  • Academic writing and language
  • APA7 citing, referencing and formatting
  • Refining and completing assessment tasks
  • Using Turnitin software to your advantage 
  • Serenity Suite resources for self-care and overcoming study roadblocks.
Academic Skills Workshops are held throughout Semesters 1 & 2 in both online and face to face modes. These include general skill topics open to all students, and workshops for specific units. Workshop resources and videos are available on the Your Academic Skill Toolkit site. Topics typically include:
  • Academic expectations and tips for success
  • Getting organised: Time management study strategies
  • Efficient reading strategies for journal articles
  • APA7: Citing & referencing with academic integrity
  • Honours thesis: Demonstrating the assessment requirements
  • Honours thesis: APA7 thesis formatting
  • Writing for psychology
  • Oral presentations
  • Conference presentations
  • Annotated bibliographies
  • Counselling and psychotherapy: Writing placement case reports
Individual Consultations are available to provide academic and study skill assistance for anyone wishing to improve their skills, and grades. Consultations with the Student Learning Support Advisor are provided online or on campus, Mondays to Fridays for one-hour sessions. You can book online via the link below:

For queries, please contact the Student Learning Support Advisor, Dr Fiona Patterson at fiona.patterson@cairnmillar.edu.au