Effective Study Skills

Description

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.

Contents

How to use this book

Learning in HE

This book will help you :

1 … Manage Yourself

1.1  Managing Stress

1.2  Managing your Time

2 … Improve Your Work

2.1  Note-making techniques

2.2  How to get the most out of lectures

2.3  Working in a Real Team

2.4  Presenting your work

2.5  Excelling in Exams

3 …Optimise Your Reading

3.1  Skills for efficient reading

3.2  Finding your way around text

3.3  Critical Reading

3.4  Managing your reading

4 …Develop Your Writing

4.1  Taking control of the writing process

4.2  Understanding Academic Integrity: plagiarism

4.3  Making the most of tutors’ feed-back

Features

• Provides practical advice on the key skills required by students throughout university
• Develops valued transferable skills that will benefit students as they pursue a chosen career path
• Guidance is delivered in a fresh, contemporary style to reinforce how important and competitive these skills are
• Emphasises how this book is devoted to developing the aspirational nature of core skills as opposed to an aid for remedial help
• Structured around the student life cycle ensuring its use throughout a student’s time at college and beyond
• Self-assessment exercises will increase engagement and further embed the skills