During university, we most likely need to submit an essay assignment. Particularly, if you are pursuing your degree from the UK, we hope to not only write it correctly but also critically. Reading a lot of references and coming up with your own argument will definitely get you higher marks.
Given the fact that it has been 12 years since the last time I was in touch with the academic realm, it was really challenging for me to get back and work on my paper from scratch. Nevertheless, thanks to the variety of courses that were provided on the University of Library's web page, I could catch up and get through terms 1 and 2 without problems. It offers a set of academic skill courses, such as how to read efficiently, speak clearly, present confidently, and write critically. Other than that, I came across several tools that have proven to be useful during my study. In this blog, I will share them briefly with you
1. Grammarly
Grammarly helps a lot to refine our writing, both grammatically and in coherence so it can be understood easily. I've been using Grammarly for three years now, since I was preparing my scholarship essay.
I have been using two versions of EndNote: EndNote desktop and EndNote Web. Sign in with your email, and you can use both versions to ensure that you can work on any device you find, as long as you synchronize them. Generally, a reference manager helps us save our references and instantly cite them in our work. Moreover, it can be handy when doing a systematic literature review, when we usually need to find duplicates among a massive number of references.
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) software used primarily in research to help analyze non-numerical or unstructured data, like Interview transcripts, Open-ended survey responses, Focus group discussions, Social media content, Articles, PDFs, and field notes. It can be helpful to find similarity within our data source to be further analyzed
This website allows you to read anything you upload to it. It is almost like ChatGPT, except it only reads according to your source. Sometimes, when I find myself struggling with a complicated journal or book, I cross-check my understanding by asking about my doubts in it.
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Duplichecker Paraphrasing our research is as essential as acknowledging the author of our references. To avoid being accused of plagiarism, it is suggested that you check your work by employing Dupli Checker. Unlike Turnitin, in Dupli Checker, we don't need to upload our work that is prone to be detected as plagiarism by our lecturer. You just need to copy and paste part of your work on this website as a random check.
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Research Rabbit This AI website can identify your references' references. By examining the resources, you can connect each research, author, and topic to help you build your argument. Manually doing this process would be a tedious task in a limited amount of time.
I found this website during one of the trainings I attended at the University of Liverpool. Even though it is originally from Manchester University, we can get inspiration for words that we might want to use in our essays. This website categorizes words based on the purpose of your paragraph, so you can always find some ideas there.
8. Microsoft Office
You might already know about Microsoft Office features such as Word, Excel, OneDrive, Teams, etc. But if you are like me, as an international student, you will find that the review toolbars help refine your assignment. For example, the thesaurus icon can instantly offer the synonims of our highlighted word. The translate icon can also verify whether you are writing the exact meaning.
That is my eight most frequent use apps and website during university. I suggest you explore it further as you embark your academic journey. Thanks for reading.
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