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The development of the critical skills will be based on exercises designed around weekly readings of appropriate journal articles or similar, these to be decided. • Finding information (from printed materials and texts, academic databases, digital/electronic sources). • Recording information through use of a range of media (e.g., visual, audio). • Presenting and using different representations (e.g., text, diagrams, tables, charts, images, posters). • Planning and writing academic essays. • Academic writing skills, styles and conventions. • Understanding plagiarism. • Self-assessment and reflection. • Critical thinking (forming an argument, examining evidence, judgement and reasoning, drawing conclusions). • Creative thinking (solving problems, generating ideas, discussing solutions and possible outcomes, approaching tasks from different perspectives/ viewpoints). • Organisation and time management (making plans, allocating tasks/ roles, designing schedules). • Memory and approaches to learning. • Working in groups. • Preparing for assessments. • Making oral presentations and public speaking. • Awareness of supports and initiatives for students at Maynooth University.
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