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It's very important for students to use these services of the ASU right from the start.
We offer students help with any academic weakness that they might spot themselves, perhaps its
essay writing, report writing or presentation skills, or just trying to understand what
we need here, such as our particular academic styles or that we need to have Harvard Referencing.
To help these new students, what we got is a whole series of workshops and in fact they
are shown on the skills passport that we give to all students.
I really didn't know there was any support available on like helping you with writing
structure and things like that and I think that would be the main thing that would come
really handy and hopefully that could have got me some better grades in some semesters that I did
So you are given all these stuff and you given all these to do lists or whatever or all these
resources and you can either take advantage of them or ignore them. If you take advantage of them
then its actually makes your life easier to get better grades.
It doesn't matter if they have any trouble or not, its about visiting ASU frequently
because every time we learn something new, and they are really helpful. You don't necessary
have to come over here right at the moment when you are stuck.
To you actually need the Harvard References, you don't see the point of it and then its sometimes
a little bit too late. So I think if you can just get into good practice and good patterns
of what you do right from the start, thus subsequently it is so much easier.
Also this issue of time management is important and we do stress this at the ASU and we run
workshops on it and help students with this issue. Not only so that they can cope with
the work, so that the work is delivered on time, is done on time, they don't feel things
are getting on top of them, but also importantly because it then allows students enough time
to take advantage of the other opportunities that the University presents. University is
not just about doing essays, its not just about working towards a degree. University
is about learning your subject certainly but its also learning more about yourself.