Study Skills for International Students: A handbook for studying in the UK

✍ Scribed by Kathleen McMillan, Jonathan Weyers

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 513
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Study Skills for International Students provides support and guidance for international students of all disciplines seeking to familiarise themselves with and excel in higher education in the UK. From adjusting to a new social and academic culture to citing, referencing and avoiding plagiarism, this book will act as a quick-reference guide, containing the need-to-know information to help overseas students in all aspects of university life.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Study Skills for International Students
Contents
About the authors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Using this book
Toolkit A: Adapting to a new educational experience
Understanding the UK educational system
Preparing for university in the United Kingdom
Adjusting to another culture
Starting out
Campus orientation
Getting organised
Toolkit B: Managing yourself in the UK
Graduate skills and attributes
Time management
Budgeting and banking
Social life at university
Maintaining a good work–life balance
Toolkit C: Developing your learning skills for the UK context
Studying independently
Lectures
Listening skills
Note-taking in lectures
Co-operative learning
Participating in a team
Laboratory sessions and field visits
Tutorials
Thinking critically
The library as a resource
Analysing and evaluating information
Effective academic reading
Note-making from texts
Using technology for learning
Toolkit D: Improving your academic writing
English as an academic language
Tackling writing assignments
Academic writing format
Planning writing assignments
Citing and listing references
Plagiarism and copyright infringement
Reviewing, editing and proof-reading
Presentation of assignments
Toolkit E: Performing well in course assessments
Assessment at university
Multiple-choice and short-answer questions
Numerical questions
Essay-style assessments
Tutorial assessment
Assessments of practical and laboratory work
Choosing a dissertation or project topic
Planning a dissertation or project
Conducting research for a dissertation or project
Report writing
Literature surveys
Poster presentations
Spoken presentations
Exploiting feedback
Toolkit F: Succeeding in exams
Physical and mental preparation
Creating a revision timetable
Active learning
Memory tips and techniques
Focusing your revision
Study buddies
Exam strategies
Combating exam nerves
Improving your exam performance
Appendix: student resources
References and further reading
Glossary of key terms
Index