Welcome to DISSC Live!
DISSC LIVE! is a study skills website. It's an online version of DISSC, the Drop-In Student Skills Centre at Teesside University.
What kind of student uses DISSC?
Well, every kind, pretty much. First-year students who are learning study skills use DISSC; students who want help with third-year dissertations and projects use DISSC; postgraduate students use DISSC; part-time and outreach students and students from all the Schools in the University. Whatever stage you've reached in your studies, we hope that you'll be able to find something useful here, to help you with your work as a student.
What's in the site?
There are sections on different aspects of academic writing from
spelling and apostrophes, to writing well-constructed paragraphs, and how to connect
your ideas and arguments together.
There is a section on writing essays: how to get started,
and how to get the most out of your reading and research. We've also included samples of real students' essays, with comments,
so you can see how essays get good marks, and also see some things to
avoid.
The site includes advice about plagiarism and references.
There is information about exams and how to prepare for
them.
Throughout DISSC Live there are self-assessment tests, for example in
apostrophes, spelling, writing style and plagiarism. There's a lot in
the site. We hope that you find something to interest you
here. And we hope you'll enjoy it too - we've tried to make Study Skills
as interesting as we can.
DISSC Query?
If you are a student of
Teesside University and would like to discuss your study skills questions with
an adviser, contact DISSC by telephoning (01642) 342709
to make an appointment, or drop in to DISSC on the ground floor of the
Library. Please note that we can't discuss your study skills by email.