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Welcome back to MathsStatsChats! In this video Laura and George briefly discuss the difference between reliability and validity in statistics.

Alice from the Academic Skills Service walks you through some tips and tricks for using digital notebooks to organise your research notes and essay/project planning. This includes options for structuring your digital notebooks, customization tools, and embedding to-do lists or mind maps. 0:10 - Creating a blank notebook and adding sections and pages. 0:40 - Organising material/notes by theme or...

Alice walks you through using two templates to record and process the feedback you receive on your academic writing. Here are the templates shown in the video: Excel writing feedback tracker: library.soton.ac.uk/ld.php?content_id=35433382 Word writing feedback tracker: library.soton.ac.uk/ld.php?content_id=35433385 For more detailed support interpreting your feedback and improving the writing e...

In this short video, Elliott provides an overview of what a conclusion should entail and how to structure one. This is an excerpt from a longer video called Writing Introductions and Conclusions: ua-cam.com/video/hS2RP_bUp34/v-deo.html.

This video answers those burning questions about the dissertation see the timestamps below to jump to the question you need answered! 4:30 - What's the point of a literature review? 9:07 - How do I structure my literature review? 16:25 - What if I don't have a gap? 21:59 - How many references should I use in my literature review? 28:36 - What do I do if there's limited relevant literature on my...

Learn some tips and tricks to keep yourself motivated as you work on your writing goals, including ways to celebrate or mark progress when tackling extended projects like dissertations or theses. This is the final video in the Southampton Academic Skills Service 'Writing Goals' playlist. Check out the other videos for strategies to build effective goals for academic writing.

If you've watched the other videos in this playlist, you now know how to set writing goals but how can you hold yourself accountable? Setting a goal is one thing, but sticking to it is quite another! Alice walks you through some strategies for improving your accountability to writing goals, from scheduling hacks to accountability buddies.

This is an excerpt from a longer video called, Writing the Dissertation: the Literature Review. In this short video, Elliott introduces an efficient way to synthesise and organise your research before you write.

In the first of our 'writing goals' series, Alice discusses the concept of setting mini-goals or incremental goals to help keep your writing on track. She identifies some of the main issues this can help with, whether falling into a 'perfectionistic spiral' or losing yourself in a sea of browser tabs.

Do you feel overwhelmed when you sit down to write? Are you struggling to make progress with your research or drafting? In this video, Alice breaks down three key building blocks that you can use to set effective daily writing goals. She will walk you through examples so you can see how these elements work together in practice. Here is an online Pomodoro timer that you can use to help with the ...

This video builds on '3 Keys to Effective Writing Goals.' Alice gives you some tips on how to begin introducing 'moves' or content elements to your daily writing goals, allowing you to get more out of your writing sessions and stay on track.

The SMART framework is often used to set objectives in professional environments, but did you know it can be applied to writing goals, too? Here, Alice explains how to make your writing goals more specific, motivating, attainable, relevant, and trackable.

Welcome back to MathsStatsChats! Today George and Laura discuss the Normal distribution, its features and what it can be used for.

Welcome back to MathsStatsChats! In this video, Laura and George discuss Hilbert's Hotel, which explores the concept of infinity.

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