Academic Skills for Interdisciplinary Studies

✍ Scribed by Ger Post; Vincent Visser; Joris Buis; Vivien Collingwood

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 143
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Academic skills are the tools that enable you to gain, develop and critically discuss new knowledge during and after your Bachelor's and Master's programme. This handbook offers practical instructions, tips, and tricks that help undergraduate students to develop the skills needed for an interdisciplinary curriculum.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1. Studying
1. Studying
2. Reading academic literature
Part 2. Doing research
3. Exploring your research topic
4. Interviewing
5. Searching the literature
6. Organizing, analysing and processing your sources
7. Empirical research
Part 3. Sharing your research
8. Arguments
9. Writing
10. Citing sources
11. Presenting
Part 4. A critical attitude
12. Debate, discussion and critical dialogue
13. Reflection
Appendices
Appendix A. Fraud and plagiarism
Appendix B. Citation guidelines for bibliographies
Appendix C. Sample literature review