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The Effective Learning Service (ELS) offers guidance and support to all students who wish to develop their academic writing and study skills. Our aim is to help you become as self-reliant as possible as you progress through your degree programmes here at QMU.

ONLINE APPOINTMENTS

Following the recent changes regarding lectures and exams at QMU, we will attend to the majority of ELS and ELSinternational appointments by communicating guidance and advice on your assignments via e-mail. If you have any follow up questions on the advice given, then just contact us by email. If you have an appointment please try to send your work to us (along with the assignment brief if possible) at least 24 hours in advance of your appointment time. If you wish to make an appointment with us, please use this link.

We will look at your work within the time slot that you booked on Student Central. Please do not send any work to us if you do not have an appointment.

A few on-campus appointments will be available. To book a one-to-one on-campus appointment, please email us. 

There will be no more workshops or drop-in sessions on campus until further notice. 

DROP-IN SESSIONS 

There will be regular drop-in sessions made available on Collaborate. Details of these will be posted on Student Central, with a link to the session. You can come along to one of these if you have a quick question for which you don't think you need a full appointment. 

STUDY SKILLS WORKSHOPS

Regular study skills workshops on a wide range of topics will be run throughout the academic year. The workshops below are small, informal, and aimed at undergraduate students, although postgraduates can join too if there is space available. This semester these workshops will be delivered online via Collaborate.

A full programme of workshops will be published soon, but our first workshops are aimed at helping you Make the Most of University Learning this Semester. To find out more about these and to book a place, go to Student Central

ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS CLASSES 

We will also run a course of academic writing classes for undergraduate students whose first language is not English. 

These classes will cover topics such as:

• how to structure an essay
• how to write more ‘academically’ in English
• how to refer to sources

Due to COVID19 these classes will held online.

There will be one class a week for the ten weeks beginning September 21. There will be two time slots available: on Tuesday afternoons from 2.15 to 3.45, and on Friday mornings from 10.15 to 11.45. There will be time set aside after these classes for students to ask the tutor any questions they may have.  

If you want to find out more details, please email: ELSinternational@qmu.ac.uk

If you wish to book a place please log on to: Student Central

RESIT PROGRAMME

Every summer we also run a Resit Programme to help students to get through their resits successfully and to develop their academic skills and confidence for the following year. It is designed for undergraduate students, resitting modules as a second diet, but students sitting assessments as a first diet in August can also apply. This programme runs for two weeks in July. 

For more details and information on how to apply, please see here: Resit Programme