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Develop academic and communication skills to help you learn more effectively.

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Skills Guides

Forthcoming skills workshops

Event

Monday 17 November 2025 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Academic Style: What It Is and How to Achieve It

Monday 17 November 2025 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

There is a style of writing which makes a text sound academic, and in this session you will learn what the elements of this style are, so you can begin to use them in your own academic writing. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Event

Monday 17 November 2025 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Creating Interactive Graphs in RStudio

Monday 17 November 2025 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This session will cover how to make interactive graphs in RStudio. You will learn how to go beyond simple bar or scatter graphs, and make them more interesting, such as animating a graph, building 3D graphs, and creating a moving gif of your graph. Suitable for people who have used RStudio previously and would like to create interactive graphs from their data in the future.

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Event

Tuesday 18 November 2025 3.30pm - 5pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Critical Thinking: What It Is and How to Do It

Tuesday 18 November 2025 3.30pm - 5pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Students are often told that they need to think critically. In this session, you will learn how you think critically all the time and how to apply this to thinking critically in your studies. There will be clear examples of critical thinking and we will show you how you can do this in a number of academic contexts. Please find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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