Varsity College Teachers

First rule of successful learning: ATTEND your lectures. Develop the skills of listening, effective note-taking, collaborating and actively participating in lectures. But that is not enough. Deep learning takes place outside the lecture room. The skills of research reading, synthesis and summarising, are critical to your future success.

Assignment Preparation
Assignments are an important part of your student experience: they are formative in that they require you to critically engage with the key concepts in your field, but they also enable you to accumulate continuous assessment marks towards your final mark for a subject.

The key here is to be PREPARED. Advance work on an assignment will set you apart from the rest, and hopefully lead you towards a distinction. How do you start? Without careful deconstruction of an assignment task beforehand, you can be left somewhat confused. Talk to an ADC or lecturer to clarify what is needed of you; they will show you how to brainstorm and plan your assignment responses. Later, get them to give you feedback on your drafts before submission.

Referencing and Plagiarism
We use the Harvard method of referencing at Varsity College. Failure to accurately acknowledge the sources you use in your assignments could leave you facing a charge of plagiarism and possible disciplinary action. But it is not as difficult as it seems. Your ADCs will provide training workshops and individual tuition on Harvard Method referencing. Make sure you take the opportunity to learn the correct referencing techniques.