Summary of course taken

I am in my final year of a four year audiology degree and I would like to work in an NHS audiology department when I qualify in July.

Description of strategies used.

Throughout the last four years I have had to write abstracts and executive summaries for essays. To do this I use the AutoSummarise tool. AutoSummarise automatically highlights a percentage of the essay or document you wish to summarise, picking out the key points. I could then pick out the bits that I wanted.

Microsoft word automatically sets the default language as English U.S. The spelling and grammar checkers then check the American spelling. I change the default language to English U.K.

When I write an essay I often incorrectly type certain words, for example I will type ADN instead of AND. I use Auto correct to automatically correct the common errors I make.

I use Google scholar to search for papers and references. It has several search strings such as date of publication, author and paper title, which means if you don’t have all of the information about a paper you can still search for it. Google scholar also allows you to have a look at the paper or book you searched for. Sometimes it is just the abstract, but other times there will be an E-book.

In Office 2007 there is a new way to create references. You create a list of all the papers that you are going to talk about in the essay, and then link the references to individual sentences. The computer then automatically creates and updates a reference list at the bottom of you document in your chosen referencing style.

At times I have listened to recordings of lectures, which I found quiet useful, as it explains a graph or image in a document or PowerPoint that I had forgotten about.

I often highlight and colour code sections of a paper or book that I am reading. When writing an essay I can then quickly pick out the highlighted points. It also makes referencing much easier, as I can easily find where I got the information from.