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Talis resource lists for Physiotherapy

A link to the resource lists for Physiotherapy

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Subjects: Information and Digital Literacies, Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Speech and Hearing Sciences

Study skills support

Effective Learning Service
The Effective Learning Service (ELS) offer guidance and support to all students who wish to develop their academic writing and study skills. Their aim is to help you become as self-reliant as possible as you progress through your degree programmes here at QMU.

Study Skills Workshops

Do you want to find out:

What ‘studying’ is all about?
Tips and strategies for independent learning?
Effective ways to plan, write and research?

Click below to view upcoming workshops run by the Effective Learning Service.

Studiosity
QMU has partnered with Studiosity, an external online service accessed via the Hub, to provide 24/7 constructive feedback on key elements of academic writing to all undergraduate and postgraduate students. This service is additional to the support offered by our Effective Learning Service.

Studiosity will review your draft work and give you quick feedback about how to improve your academic writing style.

Welcome

Welcome to your subject guide to link you to the books, journals, key databases, new research and other online resources for your subject field of Physiotherapy. If you're not sure where to start , let these pages be your inspiration.

This guide can also help you with conducting a literature review and completing other university assignments.
On this page, you can email and schedule an appointment, and access useful recordings and help guides as well as your Talis Reading List.

► Go to the Books tab to search the library catalogue and Discover.

►Go to the Journals tab to search for print and e-journals.

► Go to the databases tab for information on multidisciplinary and subject specific databases.

► Go to the referencing tab if you're not sure how to reference a source.

As the Liaison Librarian for Physiotherapy, I am invited onto your timetable to teach you how to navigate and use the print and online resources you will have access to here as a student at Queen Margaret University.

Please contact me in person, by phone or email if you have any queries.

Library Videos

ELS workshops

The Effective Learning Service (ELS) offer guidance and support to all students who wish to develop their academic writing and study skills. Their aim is to help you become as self-reliant as possible as you progress through your degree programmes here at QMU. Check out their workshop timetable below.

Guides

Literature search (beginners)
A video focussing on how to plan, and perform, a search using different resources and techniques.

Introduction to literature searching guide
Planning, conducting and evaluating a literature search
Form for Planning a Literature Search

A guide to help with the evaluation of health research
Evaulating sources
How to evaluate different kinds of sources you might use in your assignments.
Avoiding plagiarism
A video on good academic practice and how you can avoid plagiarism in your writing.

Library workshops

The library is running a series of workshops, scheduled throughout the year, on topics to help you with finding, accessing and using resources and tools for your work.

To find out what workshops are available, and to book a place, please visit our events booking page

Upcoming workshops

Help videos from ELS

The Effective Learning Service has put together a series of videos to help you develop key academic skills: