If your lecturers are unavailable, you can always come and see me in my office.

I'm available on Wednesday and Thursday mornings and on Friday afternoons. Q37

Outside these hours, perhaps you could ring the secretary and make an appointment.

Now you'll note that all of the subjects which you undertake in the first year are composed of lectures and tutorials.

A lecture is about an hour long and a tutorial usually runs for about two hours.

A lecture is rather like what I am doing now where one person will talk to all of you together on a subject.

We do ask you to try to attend the lectures.

A tutorial is perhaps where most of the learning occurs at a university.

You will be divided into groups of between 12 and 15 students and each week one of you will have to present a piece of work to the group as a whole and then the group will discuss what you've said.

It's this discussion, this exchange of ideas, which Q38 really constitutes the basis of university learning, in my view.

Listening to lectures in many ways is just giving you information that you could access for yourself in 112 the library but the discussion at the tutorial is very important.

This doesn't mean that you shouldn't go to the lectures though!

Other factors to be particularly concerned about are the structure of essays and delivery of written material and in particular I would like to mention the question of plagiarism.

Plagiarism is taking other people's work without acknowledging it, that is, without saying where it comes from.

Of course all essays are based on research done by other people but you must remember to attribute the work to the Q39 original writer.

And while it's a good idea to work with other people don't hand in work which is exactly the same as your friend's work because we will notice!

If you don't acknowledge the source of your information then you run the risk of Q40 failing the subject or in very serious cases you might be denied entry to the university.

Last but not least, stay in touch with us. If things are getting you down, don't Q41 tests go and hide.

Come and talk to us about it. That's what we are here for.

Right, global thank you very much for coming along today.