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Academic study skills

This website website helps you in developing your study skills so that your studies at the university go as smoothly as possible. Regardless of your field, you need, among other things, technology-mediated collaboration skills, the ability to read and produce academic texts, feedback interaction skills and multilingual communication skills.

Academic writing

Support and tips for different stages of academic writing process.

Anxiety and uncertainty in communication situations

Support and tools to deal with interaction situations that cause anxiety and uncertainty and involve multiple languages.

Feedback skills

Feedback helps you to develop and appreciate your own skills.

Identifying and articulating competence

Studying is easier when you know and can identify what you are good at and how to make the most of your competence in your study life.

Information seeking and research data management

Information seeking and research data management for students

Language learning

Beliefs about language learning and tips for studying.

Listening skills

Are you hearing or listening?

Multilingual communication skills

In almost every field, you need multilingual communication skills.

Presentation skills

Information on giving speeches and performance anxiety.

Reading academic texts

Tips and strategies to reading academic texts.

Scientific argumentation

Argumentation is part of academic speaking and writing.

Technology-mediated collaboration

The ability to communicate effectively using technology is a crucial skill in the professional world, and it is worth developing it already during your studies.

Time management

Studying at university involves a considerable amount of independent work, and as a student you are responsible for your own studies and their schedule.

Working in groups

How do you work in a group?

Further reading

Sources and further information on the Academic study skills website.
Study wellbeing courses
Academic culture at the University of Jyväskylä
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