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Tips for academic speaking: sign posting
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Tips for academic speaking: sign posting

Level up your speaking game with this tip!
Presentations: With or without a script?
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Presentations: With or without a script?

While it is helpful to know what you want to say, a full script can be limiting and impede on your ability to communicate effectively. Watch the full video for more information on alternatives to writing a full script.
Improving pronunciation: Tongue Twisters
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Improving pronunciation: Tongue Twisters

English has a lot of similar sounds that can leave you feeling tongue-tied! Try some of these tongue twisters to help distinguish different sounds!
Pronunciation: Voiced vs Unvoiced Sounds
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Pronunciation: Voiced vs Unvoiced Sounds

Watch along to learn a trick to help you practice voiced and unvoiced sounds like f and v.
Utilizing Flashcard Apps
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Utilizing Flashcard Apps

While there are many different ways to learn new vocabulary and help with your pronunciation, flashcard apps can be a helpful tool if you stick with them consistently!
STAR Technique
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STAR Technique

Interviews are always challenging, but the STAR technique can help make it easier when responding to behavior-based questions!
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Using AI in your writing process: Checking reliability
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Using AI in your writing process: Checking reliability

GenAI can be a useful tool to aid your writing process, but you can't always take what it says at face value! Always fact check it with your own readings.
Using AI in your writing process: Guiding & prompting
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Using AI in your writing process: Guiding & prompting

While GenAI can be beneficial, your prompting determines how useful it will be. Here are some tips to help you prompt AI better.
Using AI in your writing process: Source selection
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Using AI in your writing process: Source selection

GenAI can be used well before you actually start writing - to aid in your source selection process! There are tools that can help you find and summarise sources. But remember, GenAI can't replace your own close reading of sources... it can just help to streamline the process before you start!
Using AI in your writing process: Source comparison
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Using AI in your writing process: Source comparison

If used in the right ways, AI tools can help you to draw similarities between papers. However, it is important to be specific with your prompts and remember that AI tools are only there to assist you! Good writers will spend time engaging with the readings themselves.
How to Get the Most from Your Writing Consultation
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How to Get the Most from Your Writing Consultation

Are you clueless on how to prepare for a consultation? No worries, check out this video to see what you can do in advance in order to get the most from your 1:1 session with a Writing Centre consultant. Storyboarding: Hin Ki Cheung, Wincy Yim, Maryke de Wet Acting: Maryke de Wet, Hin Ki Cheung, Wincy Yim Filming: Wincy Yim, Hin Ki Cheung, Maryke de Wet Editing: Maryke de Wet Licenses: Mixkit Stock Music Free License Mixkit Sound Effects Free License mixkit.co Book CSS workshops and consultations here: https://www.caescss.hku.hk/   Follow us on:   https://www.facebook.com/CAESCSS  https://www.instagram.com/caescss/
Consultations at Different Stages of the Writing Process
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Consultations at Different Stages of the Writing Process

Writers will get the most from 1:1 support by seeing a consultant earlier in the writing process. Consider seeing a consultant before writing, or before your writing is finalized in order to get a critical reader’s perspective on your work in progress. Creators: HKU CAES Writing Centre Peer Consultants Athena Man and Wincy Yim Book CSS workshops and consultations here: https://www.caescss.hku.hk/ Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/CAESCSS https://www.instagram.com/caescss/
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