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The Library: PR & Journalism

Top tips from your Academic Librarian

  • Book an appointment with your Academic Librarians who can help you find resources including journal articles, statistics and more.
  • Use the Skills for Learning website for step-by-step guidance on how to plan and manage your workload, and how to structure your dissertation.
  • Search Discover for books on how to write your dissertation.
  • Look at the Discover FAQs to get the most out of using this resource.
  • You may also wish to explore our page on Dissertations and the Skills for Learning pages on Finding Information and Literature Reviews.

Help with writing

Skills for Learning offers support on a variety of academic writing skills: report writing, writing skills for international students, literature reviews and time management advice.  See the Skills for Learning website for step by step guidance on how to plan and manage your workload, and how to structure your dissertation, and see workshops, bookable via MyHub, on topics such as:

  • Reports and dissertations
  • Word for dissertations and reports
  • Statistics - analysing your data

Collections of dissertations and theses

Within Leeds Beckett

You can search the University repository for past Leeds Beckett research and the Thesis and Research Data Repository (Figshare) contains online postgraduate research theses/dissertations from Leeds Beckett students.

The Library also has some hard copies of old dissertations and theses. You can consult these to see how previous students conducted and presented their work.

Search on Discover for dissertations and theses held in the Library:

Skills for Learning workshops and events are mixture of live sessions and on demand recordings.