Specialist Academic Support

MIE students registered with the Disability Service can meet with Dr. Alison Doyle a member of the TCD Disability Services for specialist academic support on a one-to-one basis. The academic supports include but are not limited to:

  • Creating bespoke study and exam timetables
  • Teaching specific skills (essay structure, revision techniques, referencing, thesis)
  • Strategies for reading academic journals and texts
  • Using online technology to improve writing
  • Organising Blackboard calendars and managing assignment deadlines
  • Transition support for students with Asperger’s Syndrome

Referral for this support is via your Disability Officer.

We are constantly reviewing what the internet for the very best available resources, saving you valuable study time.  Below are some of the 'Best of the Web' academic support that you might find helpful

Cite this for me

Automatically create website citations in the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles at the click of a button.  Click here.

A visual guide to essay writing

If you’re a visual thinker, you can get quite frustrated in an educational system that marks not your understanding as such, but your ability to express it in a linear chain of reasoning with all the links spelt out. To make this linear way of thinking easier to grasp please view the online guide to writing an essay as a visual learner by clicking this link.

Open University

Free iTunes podcasts from the Open University to download 'Start Writing Essays': Start writing essays podcast

The Academic Phrase bank

The general resource is for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some phrases for use in essays. The phrases can be used simply to assist you in thinking about your writing, or they can be used in your own work where this is appropriate: www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk

The Assignment Calculator

This great free tool allows faculty and students to set agreed timelines and set clear date goals for the completion of projects or group work - click here to access this resource

Maths Helproom schedule for 2022/23

The Maths Helproom runs Monday to Friday between 1 pm and 2 pm in the New Seminar Room (at the School of Maths). Students looking for help with Maths may attend the help room every day.

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