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Check Your Skills – help us to pilot test our new etutorial

You can check your literaturesearching skills to see if you need more help to find the right information effectively.

We have created a new etutorial and we’d like your feedback on it. This etutorial is aimed at new Keele students to help them assess their skills and give them an action plan to improve them.

Why don’t you have a go

  • Check your literature searching skills
  • Get an action plan to improve your skills
and let us know...
  • Complete the feedback form at the end of the tutorial
Screen-shot of the Check Your Skills etutorial

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