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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Stefan, and Nicola, and Maths and Statistics Adviser, Mikayla, chat about writing a dissertation. They share strategies to get writing, discuss the importance of criticality and how to ensure you're being critical throughout, and share their editing processes. 

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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Lisa, Stefan, and Emma chat about introductions and conclusions. We discuss what makes a good introduction and conclusion, how they differ in assignments and bigger projects such as dissertations, and share our strategies for writing them. 
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Maths and Statistics Advisers, Mikayla, Shirley, and Matt, discuss quantitative research methods. They chat about the importance of planning your research, how visualising your data early on in your analysis will help you to spot patterns and potential issues, and how not finding patterns in the data might be more interesting than finding a pattern. 
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Anthony and Stefan, discuss qualitative research methods. They provide an introduction to qualitative research, outline why they would choose to do it, and briefly discuss the different instruments which can be used. 
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Stefan, and Sharon chat about assignment structure. We discuss the importance of planning, how to develop an argument, and share our strategies for structuring assignments. 
You might also find it useful to listen to our episode on Approaching an Assignment. 
University of Chester students please note: this episode was recorded before the university changed 'learning outcomes' to 'competencies' on assessment briefs so when we refer to learning outcomes we are referring to competencies.
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