Library wins Enterprise Award!

The Library has won a Coventry University Team Award – Enterprise in Action for their project Ethnicity and Study Skills: active intervention in the Library setting.

The project involved employing current students as Roving Study Support Assistants during the first few weeks of the academic year to provide peer support to new students in the Library. The aim was to help new students settle into life here at the University.

The photo below shows the project team and the RSSAs:

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CAW drop-in sessions!

The Centre for Academic Writing (CAW) are launching new-style drop-in sessions for CU students during the week commencing 8 February 2010. These sessions will take place in the Study Skills Drop-in on the ground floor of the Lanchester Library on the following days and times:

Tuesday – 2-4pm – CU Harvard Reference Style advice
Wednesday – 2-4pm – Academic Style advice
Thursday – 2-4pm – CU Harvard Reference Style advice

The CU Harvard Reference Style Drop-In sessions will address students’ queries about the use of in-text citations, the List of References and any other aspect of the CU Harvard Referencing Style, as well as queries about the different strategies one can use to integrate sources into an academic argument. Students are encouraged to come to the session with a specific question relating to one of their own writing assignments.

The Academic Style Drop-In sessions will address common student writing difficulties including the use of I (first person), run-on sentences, informal language, structuring paragraphs and writing a thesis statement. Students may bring specific questions on Academic Style, but should not expect to discuss their own writing assignments with the tutor.

Please note: The drop-ins will not be individualised tutoring sessions and students may come and go at any point during the two-hour sessions.

Writing your third-year dissertation? The Centre for Academic Writing can help!

Come along to one of CAW's third-year dissertation support groups on the following Wednesdays from 4pm-6pm for advice on structure, academic writing style, constructing an argument, referencing your work and more!

The workshops will take place in CAW's computer lab in the Frederick Lanchester Annexe on the following Wednesdays:

27th January 2010
10th February 2010
17th February 2010
24th February 2010
17th March 2010
24th March 2010

Be sure to bring along a copy of your department's dissertation guidelines and any work you have done so far. An Academic Writing Tutor will be on hand while you work on your dissertation in the computer lab.

Spaces are limited so book your place now!

Visit the CAW Reception in the Frederick Lanchester Annexe

Call 024 7688 7902

Email: writing.caw@coventry.ac.uk