Rather than using a singular source for your research, try and use different research to support your ideas.

move away from websites and use academic journals and books.

Outside of your lectures, you will be expected to engage in further research to support the assignments. You may use the library services to help you with this.

Your course uses Harvard referencing. The study coaches have created a guide to help with referencing, it will have all of the layouts for particular references for books, journals, websites, legal publications, etc.

Using your Derby University email, you have access to a website named 'citethemright', this is a great website to search for particular layouts for your referencing source.

You will come across this term in HE a lot.

Critical thinking involves questioning what you read in order to interpret, challenge, and develop existing arguments and ideas (Hooks, 2010).

Ensure you take advantage of all the resources available to you: library services, HE360 Hub, Academic Coaches.

Increasing numbers of students find transition to higher education difficult

(Thompson, Pawson, Evans, 2021).

Changes and challenges for students are depicted in Table 1 (Cheng, et al., 2023).