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University education in plain English alphabetically indexed
Just browse the index by scrolling down - Or click on a letter:

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abstract     Abstracts and Indexes     Academic Writing     Academic English     Acronym

Action Learning     Active Learning     Active learning and feedback

Action plan    

Addresses on the internet:     email addresses     web addresses

Adjectives and Adverbs     Algebra     Ambiguity     Analogy

Analysis analyse and analytic     Analysis in mathematics and statistics Analysing essay titles
Analysis as in Critical analysis (in essays, for example)

analytic a priori

Anxiety and enjoyment     ' Apostrophe

Apperceptions     Appraise     Argue and Argument (in theory and essays)

a posteriori (after) and a priori (before).

arithmetic index Arithmetic:     decimal system     fractions     multiplication     multiplication tables     numbers     percentages    

Attributes

Autonomous autonomy, independent learning and self direction.
"Autonomous Learning - Be in Control"

Averages     Axioms

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befriending     Beginners' guides to computing

Benchmarks     Bibliography     Body Language     Bookmarks

Brainstorming

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Career Development     Career tips from students
Catchup Mathematics     Census
Citation     Class
Classroom education, Distance and Open Learning and Flexible education.
Clear English     Clear thinking     Code     Combinations and Permutations

Community and academic community

Computing
computer index Computer     Computer Index     Computers' Dictionary
Computer Aids and Computer Assisted Learning
Computer Centres     Computer Commands     Computing weblinks
choose what to learn Beginners' guides to computing
click cheerful face to choose what to learn
absolute web beginners' guide
starts you right at the beginning
computer gremlins, bugs, crashes and illegal operations   See also viruses and virus scares

Concept and Conceive

concrete as opposed to abstract

Conclusion     Confidence - some student thoughts     Conjunction

Control your own study     Control Group

Copying on computers     Copying other people's work

core skills     core skills syllabus     core skills computer syllabus

Cosmology

Creative thinking     Critical thinking     Criticise and critical in essay writing

Creative writing contrasted with explanatory

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Data     Databases     Decimals and the Metric System     Deep learning

Deduction     default     define    derivative work     design     descriptive     Dialogue

Dissertation

Dictionaries     dictionary definitions     discursive

Disks for computers

Dogma     Drafting and redrafting     Dyslexia

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Editing

Electronic Education     Electronic Communication
Email (electronic mail)     email addresses     Electronic sources

Emphasis     Empirical     Empirical research     Epistemology

Employment skills - ideas from students     Enjoying study

English language: See ABC Language

ABC Essays     Essay Writing Strategy     Examples

Essay too long or too short     Referencing     books

Exams     books about exams     Exam tips from students

links to writing guides 
on other web sites

Ethical guidelines for research

evidence Evidence     Excel spreadsheet     Experiments

Explanation in essays     Explanation in science     Explans/ Explanandum

Evaluate

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to fairy land fairies, fairytales and fairyland

falsification

to fairy land

Feedback     Feedback and Action Learning
Giving Feedback     Receiving Feedback

Files     Fileconversion     File managers

Flow     Floppy disks

Focused     Fonts     Format     French weblinks

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Generalisations     general as opposed to specific
Generating ideas     Geometry     Geography weblinks     German weblinks

Grammar: The order of words (syntax). The shape of words (morphology). Punctuation. Vocabulary. Style. Usage.       Grammar-checkers       Grammar right or wrong?

Graphics     Graphs and other diagrams

gremlins, bugs, crashes and illegal operations   See also viruses and virus scares

Groups     Group Work     Seminars and Workshops     Self Help Groups
Networks     Group Aims     Shaping a Group: Size, membership and team building     Rules     Roles: Tasks and Personalities     Meetings: Agendas and Notes     Group Personality Caricatures     Group Problems     books about group work

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Harvard System     Health weblinks     History weblinks     Hypertext     HTML     Hypothesis

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I do not like torturing English. Do you?     ibid (torturing Latin!)

Ideas     Imagination     Impressions     Indexes

indicators - relate research ideas to the empirical world     Induction

Individual work - Keys to successful learning

Infer and inference

"intend to do" becomes does

Internet     Intranet     internet referencing

Interpret     Interpretation     Critical Interpretation

Interviews

in-text references

be specific - provide as
much content as possible Introduction to essays and other forms of academic writing

All the colours should be displayed in your introduction

Outline   Argument Statement   Summary  

IT: Information Technology

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Jargon, Technical words and Gobbledegook

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Keyboard

keys to learning Key words, key concepts, key skills etc     Keyword searches
Key word and number in Harvard system references
Keys to successful learning

Kolb's learning cycle

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ABC Language - words used to analyse language

Language Centres     Languages weblinks

Learning     learning cycle     Learning Resource Centres

Lectures (definitions)     Lectures - Listening to, taking notes

Length of essays

book lists Library     Library research
Literature Review (See also reviews)     Literature searches

Links on web pages (what they are)     Links from this site to the world- wide-web

links in a chain of thought     Logic

Logging on and off from a computer system

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Marking your own essays
Mathematics     Mathematical Models     Measurement
Mathematics index     Mathematics weblinks
maths index

meta- analysis

Metaphor     Metaphysics

methodology

Those misin ' bits should not bedevil your writing

Modular and Modules     Module resources

Motivation - An appeal for help

Multiplication     multiplication tables     Music weblinks


Move with the cut, copy
and paste sisters

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Neologism     Netscape web browser

Networks     computer networks         study networks

Note Making     Notes from books     Notes from lectures     Nouns

Numbers

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Offline and online     Ontology

operationalising concepts - linking ideas and observations     op.cit

Opitical Character Recognition (for reading books into a computer)

Originality     See also creative thinking

Outlines and plans of writing.

"Own words" means

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Paradigms and metatheories     Paragraphs     Paraphrasing     Participant Observation     Parts of dissertation or report     Parts of essay     Parts of speech

Passion     Passive learning     Password

Personal development     Peer Assisted Learning (PAL)     books about peer assisted learning

% Percentages %

phrases     pictures
Pilot Study
Plain English     Plagiarism     Plan of essay     Positivism
Prefix and Suffix     Précis writing and précising

Primary sources     Primary data     Primary analysis

Premises: See axioms, rationally and Proof

Prepositions     Probability     Procrastination

Programs and Programmes (what the different spelling means)
Programmes of learning     Computer Programs

Pronouns     Proof

Proof reading tips from students    See also checking an essay

Proposal: Research proposal or research outline     Proposition

Proposition     Punctuation     Psychology weblinks

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Qualitative - Quantitative

Question mark     Asking questions is part of active reading, but avoid question style when writing essays. Asking questions is an aspect of critical thinking

Questionnaires

Quotations 

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Rationalists     Rationally     Reason

Records     Reliable indicators

References          Reflection  

  Reading

writing a report Reports     Writing Reports     (also about Dissertations and Theses) Research

Required, recommended and relevant sources

Research     Empirical research     Advice on empirical research    
library research research before writing (library research)     research as advanced study Reports

Resources     Resource Based Learning     Resource Centres     Review

Roles:     Social Roles     Group Roles

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Safety     Sample - sampling     Sceptic     scepticism

Search a document     Search engines     list of search engines

Search the Internet     Keyword searches

Secondary sources     Secondary data     Secondary analysis     Secondary statistical analysis

Self assessment     Semantics and Semiotics
Sentences     Sequential

shape

Sharing:     Dialogue     Group Work     Group Problems     Giving and receiving gentle feedback

Signposting your writing     Simile:
Simple English

Skills     Social science history weblinks     software

Sources:     Primary and Secondary sources
Required, recommended and relevant sources


Store your files carefully
in a filing system you 
can find them in again -
and again - and again -
    specific as opposed to general

Spelling     Spell-checkers, spellers
Spelling tips from students     Spelling weblinks
spidergrams,
spidergraphs, mind maps.
make yours look
more like a spider?
Spreadsheets     Squares, Cubes and Roots

Statistics     Descriptive Statistics     Inferential Statistics     Statistical Data
Statistical Experiments     Populations     Samples     Statistical Significance
Statistics weblinks

statistics

Stress tips from students     See also Anxiety

Study skills     Study skills weblinks

Structure     Structure of writing     Structuring time

Student-centred learning     Student Tutoring

Style defined and style advised

Subjects     Summary     Superfluous words     Surface learning

Symbol     Synonym     Synthesis     synthetic a priori

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Tables     Times x Tables (multiplication)     Technical words

Verbs have tense, but need you be?

Test

Text     Textfile

Theory     Constraints of theory     testable scientific theories

Thesaurus     Thesis     Thinking ABC

Time Management     Time management tips from students

Throw away points - a weak way to end

Tips from students on:     career skills     mathematics     spelling     time management

Triangulation

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Understanding    

URL or Uniform Resource Locator (web address)

User friendly

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Valid     Valid indicators     Variable     Verbs     Verification

viruses on computers and virus scares   See also gremlins, bugs, crashes and illegal operations

Vocabulary advice - index - dictionaries

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Web. The World Wide Web or WWW     web addresses     Web Working

different meanings windows Microsoft
Windows    Wordprocessors    Writing

WORDS

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xtra    yuseof    zomthingfunny

your own words

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