Welcome to Study Skills for Sixth Form

Games and activities

The path to study success...

This website will take you on a journey to help you become an independent researcher.

1. Using the libraryFind out how to use university libraries
2. Finding resourcesTop tips for searching and finding resources
3. Evaluating sourcesChoose your resources and evaluate your sources
4. PlagiarismHow to avoid breaching copyright. What is plagiarism?
5. ReferencingResources teaching you about referencing and citation
6. Have a go!All done? Take the research challenge

Digital Information Literacy

Study Skills for 6th Form was proudly awarded the Credo Digital Information Literacy Award at LILAC 2016.

Did you know?

Newcastle University has many educational resources for students to use at home. Our Open Access resources can be accessed via LibrarySearch. For help finding Open Access resources, please see this video. 

We also run interactive workshops on study skills covering the following:

• Tour of the library
• Research skills
• Plagiarism and referencing
• Finding resources

If you would like more information about the study skills workshops we run offer please contact lib-outreach@ncl.ac.uk.

Sixth form students are welcome to join our library and use reference facilities outside of our exam periods.