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University
education in plain English alphabetically indexed
Just browse the index by scrolling down - Or click on a letter:
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
Apperceptions
Appraise
Argue and Argument (in theory and essays)
a posteriori
(after) and
a priori
(before).
Attributes
Autonomous
autonomy, independent learning and self direction.
"Autonomous Learning - Be in Control"
Averages
Axioms
befriending
Beginners' guides to computing
Benchmarks
Bibliography
Body Language
Bookmarks
Brainstorming
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
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
Cosmology
Creative thinking
Critical
thinking
Criticise and
critical in essay writing
Creative writing contrasted
with explanatory
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
Editing
Emphasis
Empirical
Empirical research
Epistemology
Employment
skills - ideas from students
Enjoying
study
English language: See
ABC Language
Ethical guidelines for research
Feedback
Feedback and Action Learning
Giving Feedback
Receiving Feedback
Files
Fileconversion
File managers
Flow
Floppy disks
Focused
Fonts
Format
French weblinks
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
Harvard System
Health weblinks
History weblinks
Hypertext
HTML
Hypothesis
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
IT: Information Technology
Jargon, Technical words and
Gobbledegook
Keyboard
Kolb's learning cycle
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
Links on web pages (what they are)
Links from this site to the world-
wide-web
Logging on and off from a computer system
Marking your own
essays
meta-
analysis
Neologism
Netscape web
browser
Networks
computer networks
study networks
Note Making
Notes from books
Notes from lectures
Nouns
Numbers
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
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
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
"
Required,
recommended and
relevant sources
Resources
Resource Based Learning
Resource
Centres
Review
Roles:
Social Roles
Group Roles
Safety
Sample -
sampling
Sceptic
scepticism
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
specific as opposed to general
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
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
Understanding
URL or Uniform Resource Locator (web
address)
User friendly
Valid
Valid indicators
Variable
Verbs
Verification
Web. The World Wide Web
or WWW
web addresses
Web Working
WORDS
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zomthingfunny
your own
words
Referencing (citation)
My
referencing
suggestion for any part of the internet
version of the ABC Study Guide is a
bibliography
entry as follows (just write it down):
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Roberts, A. ABC - The ABC Study Guide. University
education in plain English alphabetically indexed.
<http://studymore.org.uk/glossary.htm>
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With references in the
text to
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(Roberts, A. ABC/concept indexed)
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for example
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(Roberts, A. ABC/essay length)
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