Effective Study Skills: Essential skills for academic and career success

✍ Scribed by Geraldine Price

• Publisher: Longman
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a high-quality, rigorous academic skills textbook providing essential guidance to the core areas of practical, aspirational and transferable skills needed by a student both to achieve success on any academic course and to secure improved grades.

It will also develop key workplace skills that will enable them to achieve success in their onward career.

 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Effective study skills
Contents
Foreword
How to use this book
Learning in Higher Education
1 Manage yourself
Managing your stress
Managing your time
2 Improve your work
Making notes
How to get the most out of lectures
Working in a real team
Presenting your work
Excelling in exams
3 Optimise your reading
Reading efficiently
Finding your way around text
Reading critically
Managing your reading
4 Develop your writing
Taking control of the writing process
Understanding academic integrity: plagiarism
Making the most of your tutors’ feedback
Index