Useful Material for All Students

General Stuff

Student Email - information about how to access your student email account.

Study skills and information

General

DMU Library self study guides - a range of leaflets from writing essays to researching on the internet

Focus On series - more study skills advice from DMU key skills unit

University Assessment Criteria - This is also printed at the back of the booklet Undergraduate Modular Scheme Handbook and Regulations.  

Finding out

Online Internet Tutorials - This link takes you to the DMU Library skills page.

Psychology Gateway to the Internet - A useful site for starting subject searches.

Using Journals and looking for articles - This page gives links to lists of journals that are in the library, lists of online journals, and journal search engines and information on how to use them.

Writing

How to get Good Marks / Poor marks in Psychology Essays - Some advice written by John Lambie

Referencing Conventions - This page gives an explanation of the departmental referencing policy, how to reference books, journal and internet sources and also contains a link to a useful referencing Internet site.

Presenting

How to get Good Marks / Poor marks in Psychology presentations - Some advice written by Tim Grant

Sitting exams

DMU ExamNet - Past exam papers can be down loaded