INTERMEDIATE GENERIC SKILLS
All Intermediate (Second Year) students in the School of Biological Sciences should have a copy of the School of Biological Sciences Intermediate Skills Manual. You can download the manual as a pdf (below) or buy a copy ($6) from the University Copy Centre - order on-line at http://www.usyd.edu.au/ups/. You will need to have registered your University of Sydney extro account and use your extro login and password to order on-line. (You can charge the cost of notes to your extro account.)

The sites linked to this page follow on from particular sections in the Intermediate Skills Manual.

Quick Find: General | Communication Skills | Statistics | Links to statistics sites |
Computing Skills | Internet | Viruses and hoaxes

General
University of Sydney Generic Skills statement
School of Biological Sciences Intermediate Skills Manual

Communication Skills
Scientific Writing Notes
(pdf file - requires Acrobat Reader)
Answers to Scientific Writing Questions
Grammatical Tip of the Week

Preparing a Scientific Poster
Oral Presentation Skills
Oxford English Dictionary
(requires Unikey login)

Computing Skills
MSWord - A quick guide to basic functions
MSWord - Hints on formatting documents
MSExcel - A quick guide to basic functions
MSExcel - Statistical Functions

Statistics
Calculations - measures of central tendency & variability (mean, variance, standard deviation)
MSExcel - Statistical Functions (histogram, t test, correlation, scatterplot, chi-square)

Internet
Conditions of Use and Code of Conduct
All students must read these documents and agree to abide by the conditions before they use campus computing services. 
Chain Letters
Why you should refrain from sending these.

Computer viruses

NETIQUETTE

Rules of common courtesy on the internet.

Links to virus and hoax information
Viruses
Symantec Anti-Virus Site
IBM's virus information site

Hoaxes
Security Hysteria

Links to useful statistics sites
Explanation of the theory behind statistical hypothesis testing
Electronic textbook on introductory statistics
Elementary concepts in statistics


This page maintained by Elizabeth May
Last updated
September 9, 2009
Email:
lizmay@bio.usyd.edu.au