Online Resources
Monash Learning Links – A list of useful resources for study:
Monash Handbook for Doctoral Degrees
http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/research/doctoral/index.html
Monash Postgraduate Association – seminars and social events, resources and advice
http://mpa.monash.edu.au/new-to-monash/international.html
Language and Learning Online - resources for writing, reading and note taking, grammar, spoken presentations
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/
‘QuickRef’ Study Skills Handouts
Quick help
Learning Support for HDR Students (especially in qualitative research): Set up for Success; Design your Project; Build Thinking and Writing Skills; Develop Oral communication skills; Write the Thesis
Learning Support for HDR Students
For some types of writing in medicine
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/medicine/index.xml
Information seeking skills and tools
Library online tutorials
The 7 principal citation styles
Citing and referencing: how to acknowledge your sources
For practising English in your spare time
Vacation English
Other Useful Sites
Resources for research writing
https://academicskills.anu.edu.au/online-resources
Using Powerpoint
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/ppoint.html
Designing scientific posters
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
Discussion skills
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/disc.html
Spoken academic English
http://micase.elicorpora.info/esl-self-study-activities
Some ways of taking notes
http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=3924
How to use lecturer feedback on your written work
http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&level4=3961
Theses online
Theses Online
http://adt.caul.edu.au/
Google theses
http://proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/google.shtml
ProQuest dissertations and theses
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/databases/2040742.html
How to Write a PhD Thesis (Physics)
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html#start
Some general thesis-writing advice
http://www.learnerassociates.net/dissthes/
First thoughts to finished writing
http://www.uq.edu.au/student-services/linkto/phdwriting/
Quick guide for the beginning science PhD student
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html#start
Thesis-writing in the social sciences
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/supportunits/pgresources.html
Annotated bibliography
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/annotated_bib.html
Writing a literature review
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/litrev.html
Writing a research proposal
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/thesis.html
Revision of scientific report writing
http://www.usyd.edu.au/learningcentre/wrise/
Curtin Lib referencing (all styles)
http://library.curtin.edu.au/research_and_information_skills/referencing/index.html
APA
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/ref_apa.html
Harvard
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/ref.html
Plagiarism : Problems and solutions
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism/how.html
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QuotingSources.html
Useful academic expressions
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/introductions.htm
Using ‘reporting verbs' and transition words in your writing
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/Resources/la/QuickClicks%20Repository/LC_worksheet_linking%20words.pdf
More on reporting verbs
http://www.acu.edu.au/student_resources/student_support/academic_skills/referencing/reporting_verbs/
http://www.gcal.ac.uk/student/coursework/writing/reporting.html
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/learning_english/activities/aez/resources/reporting_verbs/sample1/
A quick tour of Aussie culture:
http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/socialrules.htm
Comprehensive guide to comma use:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/
Grammar
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/601/01/
Check how to use a words/s with the Virtual Language Centre concordancer
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/598/1
Using dependent and independent clauses
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/598/1
Grammar quizzes
http://a4esl.org/a/g.html
Common errors in English (for the pedants)
http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/
Listening to Australian English
http://australianetwork.com/livingenglish/stories/le_ep01.htm
Listening to the Australian accent
http://clas.mq.edu.au/voices/australian-accent
http://clas.mq.edu.au/australian-voices/audio-illustrations
http://clas.mq.edu.au/australian-voices/australian-accent
Australian slang and regionalisms
www.abc.net.au/wordmap/default.htm
www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/res/aus_words/aewords/index.php
Academic Writing and Grammar
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/fragments.html
Clinical interactions
http://online.ames.edu.au/coursedemo/EHP-D-DEMO/index.html
See demo models in:
http://www.aachonline.org/?page=doccom
http://clas.mq.edu.au/australian-voices/audio-illustrations
http://clas.mq.edu.au/australian-voices/australian-accent
IELTS Preparation
http://www.testpreppractice.net/IELTS/Free-Online-IELTS-Practice-Tests.aspx
An Australian one:
http://international.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/IELTS01.htm
Test-taking hints
http://www.askynz.com/ielts/preparation.htm
Check out the sites at the bottom of this page:
http://www.speakoz.com/english-directory/ieltspreparation.html
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