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Tertiary Learning Strategies
UndergraduateUSA-SSK102025
Commit to following the academic writing process. Cover everything from managing information to submitting your essay. Enhance your formal writing skills. Reference texts to support your arguments. Pick up techniques for compiling a bibliography.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 25 May 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025,
- 2 June 2025,
- 1 Sept 2025,
- 1 Dec 2025
- Price from
- $998
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Tertiary Learning Strategies
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- plan and manage their study
- read and comprehend texts appropriate to undergraduate study
- access and use effectively, a range of resources related to their study
- recognise and apply academic conventions required for written assignments.
- Organisation of materials and time
- Writing
- Managing information
- Referencing
Get a great start to your study. In this subject you are presented with knowledge and generic skills relevant to studying at a tertiary level. The subject leads you through a staged process from submission of a brief non-academic writing task, through to completion of a researched and referenced academic essay. Along the way, you learn how to develop your formal writing skills, read and interpret academic texts and use library and internet resources to research and support academic arguments. You also learn ways to organise your time and resources, approaches to assignment writing, how to relate reference material to assigned writing, protocols of in-text referencing (Harvard/Author-Date) and techniques for compiling a bibliography. At the completion of this subject, you should be able to plan and manage your study, read and comprehend texts appropriate to undergraduate study, access and use a range of resources and recognise and apply academic conventions required for written assignments.
- Annotated Bibliography (2000 words) (40%)
- Reflective essay (800 words) (20%)
- Essay (1500 words) (40%)
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Entry requirements
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Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MUR-SSK12 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Students must be aged 17 or older by the time teaching commences for their course of study, in accordance with UniSA’s Selection and entry to programs policy. Knowledge of Microsoft Office Word
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Student feedback
19 student respondents between 21 May 2024 - 19 Feb 2025.
84%of students felt the study load was manageable
89%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
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