Reading and note-taking
Birkbeck guides
- Interactive online tutorials: Reading skills, Note taking, Your reading list
- Advice on effective note-taking: Birkbeck guide
- Coping with long reading lists: Birkbeck guide
- Reading academic text
- Strategies for critical reading
Online resources
- Critical Reading Techniques comprehensive page on reading, annotating and reviewing text
- How to read at University research level: Birkbeck interactive online lesson (9 minutes, with audio)
- Introduction to Effective Reading – Mindquest (includes audio)
- Note-taking guide from Exeter University
- Notetaking Systems: page from California State Polytechnic illustrating the various systems of note taking
- Reading: free online course from Open University OpenLearn
- Reading and note-taking: free online course from Open University OpenLearn
- Reading in the Sciences from University of Texas
- Reading Skills for Academic Study: University of Hertfordshire
- Reading Strategies – Skills 4 Study: Palgrave Macmillan and Stella Cottrell
- Reading Textbooks: Dartmouth College Academic Skills Centre
