1 What is a student?

2 Understanding the Question, including PICO and SPICE

3 Organising your Time

4 Gathering Information, includes research design and ethics

5 Finding Information: keywords and database searching

6 Evaluating Information, includes critical reviewing

7 Managing Information

8 Plagiarism

9 Harvard and APA referencing

10 Numerical, OSCOLA and Chicago referencing

11 Communicating Information, presentation and writing skills - Writing skills - Essay structure - Report structure - The dissertation - Reflective writing - Technical writing - Grammar tips - Writing a literature review - Signal words - Oral communication, posters and talks - Electronic communication - ePortfolios

12 Your digital footprint

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Unit 11: Writing skills - Signal words

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Continuation words

These words work as signals; this means that there are more ideas to come.  These words occur within sentences, not at the beginning.   

and	also	another
again	and finally	first of all
furthermore	in addition	more
moreover	next	one reason
other	secondly	similarly
too	with

 Change of direction words

These words mean: ‘Watch out—we are changing direction of the argument’. These words occur within sentences, not at the beginning.

although	but	conversely
despite	different from	even though
however	in contrast	instead of
the opposite	on  the contrary	on  the other hand
rather	still	yet
while	though

SMILE - Writing skills - Signal words by EBE Learning Development Centre, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.