Economics: Study Skills

Study skills encompasses the academic and professional skills which enable you to succeed at university.

Study skills includes reading, note-taking, critical thinking, planning, writing, referencing, presentation, revision and examination skills. For economics students, they might also include mathematics and statistics.

This guide highlights a range of study skills courses, events and books available to economics students on transition to university, for assessments and examinations, and for dissertations and theses.

Library Online Courses

The library has a range of self-study courses to support study skills from library inductions for new students, literature searching, academic writing, plagiarism and referencing, to mindfulness and meditation.

Get Started:
Library Induction

Finding Information:
Research for Assignments

Understanding Information:
In Academia and Beyond

Introduction to
Academic Writing

Presenting and Visualising Information

Mindful Library:
Mindfulness for Students

Information Skills for Economists

Information Skills for Economists is the University of Warwick Library's self-study Moodle course.

It introduces students to different types of academic information, and shows you how to find, use and reference them using a range of library and economics databases.

Economic Data Workshops

As part of the EC331: Research in Applied Economics module, the librarian ran a series of workshops: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics and Company and Financial data. Video recordings are available below [10 minutes].