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Success at Master's Level

Improve your postgraduate academic skills, with tips on critical reading, clearer arguments, addressing complexity, and writing with authority.
Two students at graduation

Guide outline

  • Expectations at master's level
  • Critical reading approaches
  • Strategies for clearer arguments
  • Bring complexity into your writing
  • Techniques for adding authority
  • Research, reports and reflection
  • Test your understanding
  • Summary


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Adsetts Library
Collegiate Library


Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus, Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB