The Bite-Sized Library Workshops are designed, developed, and offered by the librarians and campus partners in Terms 1 and 2 (respectively in Aug-Sep and Jan-Feb). They are introductory, out-of-classroom learning opportunities for you to learn more about research skills, working with data, database searching, writing persuasively and presenting confidently, citation management and metrics, holistic development tips and many other topics.
Look out for our email announcements and sign up for your “bites”!
As part of your graduate learning outcomes, you are required to be an independent, self-directed learner to be able to undertake academic research. You will learn how to locate your course readings and have research and critical thinking skills beyond Wikipedia and Google especially in the digital world where fake news prevails. SMU Libraries designed and developed interactive online learning activities on essential topics and skills that every student needs to be successful.
All Year 1 students can access these learning activities through eLearn course LIB001 – Library Research Skills. This is one of the highly recommended programmes in the SMU Holistic Student Development Framework. The eLearn system tracks your learning progress and upon completion, it will appear in your Co-Curricular Transcript. The INSIGHT system also tracks your graduate learning outcome attainment levels and provides you a personalised learning outcome dashboard. Contact us if you have any questions!
Digital Literacy: What you need to know
SMU’s Digital Learning Strategy highlights the need for students to have digital skills and it underscored in the SMU Holistic Student Development Framework. One of the key dimensions in the framework is Academic and Learning Success that focuses on support for students to develop academic and study skills. Responding to this, SMU Libraries developed an elearn course entitled, Digital Literacy: What you need to know to help students transition to digital learning in universities.
Avoiding Plagiarism through the APA Style
Students may unknowingly plagiarise if they are not familiar with the correct way of citing and referencing. This module helps you develop the necessary academic awareness to know about plagiarism and the skills to avoid it by using citation and reference techniques.
The Research Process
This module will guide you through the different stages of the research process. By the end of it, you will be able to apply these concepts to your assignments and undertake academic research systematically, especially in a digital world with information overload and misinformation.
The Research Guides is a knowledge portal of key resources tied to various disciplines and modules at SMU. Curated by the librarians, these guides help you with self-directed learning throughout your school years. Here are a few of our top picks:
By subject
By topic
Go to the Research Guides portal to explore more!