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English Language & Academic Skills (ELAS / IFCELS)

Reading and Note-Taking

Reading and Note-Taking

Monash Essay writing

This is a learning support website hosted by Monash University. This section focuses on helping you to select what to read for a particular assignment, to make useful notes from your reading, and to read more selectively and effectively. It contains a lot of examples and the advice is easy to follow. 

Preparing for Success: Reading for your course 

This website was designed to prepare international students for academic study in the UK. It contains a variety of user-friendly, short activities designed to help you with different aspects of student life in the UK, but also activities to help you to study more effectively. This section contains two activities: How to manage reading lists, and Reading efficiently.

Preparing for Success: Using what you read in your academic writing

This website was designed to prepare international students for academic study in the UK. It contains a variety of user-friendly, short activities designed to help you with different aspects of student life in the UK, but also activities to help you to study more effectively. This section contains two activities: Understanding what referencing involves and Identifying examples of paraphrase, quotation and plagiarism.