Reveals the study skills that students need to know in order to be successful, whether the goal is landing a top scholarship or excelling in school. This title includes information on how to create an effective work environment, stand out in class, use the library, conduct research online, and more.
Provides an added focus on the three-step path to study success - to be a successful student, you need to build a strong study skills foundation and then gain, retain, and explain information. This book teaches study techniques such as visual thinking, active listening, concentration, note taking, and test taking.
Skills for Law Students is an innovative online resource covering all the skills that law students need to understand and develop during the course of a law degree. It includes clear, practical advice on how to develop key skills as well as over 170 interactive activities to test progress and to help put the theory into practice.
This practical self-help guide for students facing the often daunting experience of going to university aims to help them meet the challenges of new subjects, reading lists, large classes and methods of teaching and assessment unlike those at school.
Following-on from The Study Skills Handbook, this book enables students to think about personal, academic and career goals and to plan a path to success. Rich in activities that develop valuable career skills, this edition has a new chapter on Understanding your Personal Performance, and updated information on job applications.
Blended and online learning is widespread, with students from both campus based and distance universities and colleges facing the prospect of online study either for part or a whole of their course of study. This book provides a practical introduction for students who are contemplating or undertaking online study.
Testy on test day? Don't stress! This title offers step-by-step strategies you can use in any testing situation. It unlocks every student's successful side with preparation strategies such as reading for maximum retention, researching the teacher's testing history and preferences, and using those inevitable 'jitters' to psych yourself up.
Offers a sequence of specific prompts that teach students across the curriculum how the process of analysis and synthesis is a vehicle for original and well-developed ideas. This book treats writing as a tool of thought - a means of undertaking sustained acts of inquiry and reflection.
From selecting a topic and conducting research to developing an outline, writing drafts, proofreading, and more, this title takes you step-by-step through the creation of a successful research paper. It is suitable for those hoping to excel in school, on essay tests, and in life.
Whether taking courses for the first time or returning to formal learning, this book can ease the transition to college and university learning, polish studying and learning skills, improve essay-writing skills, increase learning efficiency and productivity, and reduce wasted time and effort.
Skills in learning and studying are vital to ensure success in higher education study. Along with directions on traditional learning skills, this title offers guidance for students on learning in a blended environment; the increased use of personal and professional development planning, continuing professional development and work-based learning.
Including new material on blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios, the second edition reflects the increasing number of e-learning courses. This practical, flexible text helps students enhance and develop their existing skills whether they are a distance learner, or at an institution which has e-learning integrated into their programmes.
This book will help work-based students to successfully navigate academia. It is a hands-on guide for learners, helping them to get the most out of their university experience. Real-life case studies and useful activities are embedded throughout, illuminating the routes to university qualifications based on workplace activity.
Using exercises, examples, and writing applications, this title focuses on sentence writing, with attention to matters such as grammar, rhetoric, sentence variety, sentence combining, diction, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. It provides instruction with student examples on the process of writing paragraphs and essays.
This concise, handy guide demystifies academic writing, providing students with real insight into writing well at university. Direct and practical advice allows students to gain the confidence, knowledge and tools to hit the ground running from their first year of study. Well-presented, featuring lively illustrations.
Concise and well-presented, this guide will be invaluable to any Ph.D. student seeking to successfully complete their thesis. Based on students' direct experiences, topics include developing your argument, planning your time, editing, what examiners are looking for, talking about your research, and the viva.
Skills for finding information are essential for academic study and beyond. This illustrated guide provides practical advice on how to source and use the right resources. It includes guidance on how to carry out a literature review as well as the skills needed for finding and evaluating information.
A grammar and usage handbook that works for both beginning and continuing media writers, provides explanations and examples, as well as answers to grammar or usage questions. It includes 'from writer to writer' perspective that engages students and guides them through the writing process.
This bookprovides students with accessible and easy-to-follow strategies for tackling the major types of documents - from writing reports to job applications.Interactive exercises are included to provide engaging scenarios for writing practice. The new edition has been fully revised to include the latest workplace and technology trends.
The Bedford Handbook provides clear explanations of proper English grammar, composition, citation, and textual analysis. The eighth edition combines classic Hacker usability with a next-generation focus on academic writing and research and new navigation that helps students pull together advice and models for each assignment.
The second edition of this best-selling book is as lively and accessible as the first edition. Advice, support and both active and reflective tasks take the students through the stages of research as well as encouraging them to consider social and cultural issues, such as working with their supervisor and other researchers.
A systematic guide to successfully producing written work for business and management degrees. It addresses the common pitfalls of essay assignments, as well as providing students with a step-by-step programme to approach essay questions, both in coursework and exam contexts.
This resource aims to help the reader create an effective revision programme for his or her students. It is organized into a series of workshops based on recent research into the brain and how it works, giving students insight into how learning occurs and introducing them to revision techniques.
Introduces the concepts and principles of collaborative learning and then goes on to present specific techniques and exercises organized according to learning objectives. This book explains how to form groups, assign roles, build team spirit, deal with problems, and promote and assess participation.
Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn. This book aims to make a contribution to the creation of such a professional knowledge base for teachers.
A guide that shows students how to utilize the internet and internet technology. It covers such areas as: web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, Podcasts and RSS) that students may encounter at university, good web practice (netiquette, tagging, and online writing) and using external resources (citeulike, Google scholar and delicious).
In Teaching for Critical Thinking, Stephen Brookfield builds on his last three decades of experience running workshops and teaching courses on critical thinking to explore how student learn to think this way, and what teachers can do to help students develop this capacity.
Essay writing at university is an essential skill but for many students this is an area where they lack confidence. This guide takes students through the process from what they can do before they start to using feedback constructively for their next essay.
A compact book offering students specific, succinct guidance to the core process and major hurdles involved in undertaking a PhD. As well as offering practical advice, such as how to shape initial ideas, the book also encourages students to find and value their own pathways and approaches within academia.
The Exam Skills Handbook provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It provides practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies.
Provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It gives practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies. This fully updated, two-colour edition includes two brand new chapters.
Part of the "100% Success Series", this title addresses the practical student tasks such as note-taking and reading strategies, while encouraging students to develop skills like self-reflection, lifelong learning, financial management, and balancing life responsibilities with school.
You2Uni is the ideal book for young people thinking about going to university, and for teachers and careers advisors who want to encourage and support entry into higher education. It helps readers to make informed decisions about what is right for them, improve their academic skills, and develop skills for independent everyday life.
Offers coverage ranging from how a teacher might package and market themselves through the entire application and interview process. This title contains specific advice on how to prepare cover letters, resumes, and interview portfolios. It also explains the various interview formats and how to best attack each one.
Aims to unite the fragmented study skills/work skills/personal development skills market by focusing on the skills that students need to make them prepared for the world of work. This book features chapters which take students through the core personal, interpersonal, written, verbal, and technical skills that HE courses and employers look for.
Briefer, more affordable, and easier to use than the MLA's own handbook, this popular booklet features current MLA guidelines, a new section on evaluating online sources, and an up-to-date APA appendix. The guide also provides numerous examples, a sample research paper, and helpful hints on such topics as avoiding plagiarism and taking notes.
Based on the experience of students worldwide, this book offers practical advice to research students struggling with the complexities of structuring their arts, humanities or social science thesis. Real-life case studies vividly introduce a number of alternative approaches, providing students with new ideas for structuring their work.
Students need to think critically about what they read or hear. This guide shows students what being 'critical' in their work means, and how to bring that 'critical' dimension into all the work they do. It addresses the need and the skills of being critical in relation to reading and writing. It is suitable for students at various levels.
Provides students with essential skills needed for writing in college and beyond, including critical thinking and reading, as well as writing for academic and workplace audiences. This title features an important restructuring of content that allows students to proceed quickly to writing projects and to incorporating research into their writing.
This is the first book to deal with the specific challenges faced by final year students. They must cope with revision for final exams as well as completing coursework and sometimes working on extended dissertations or projects. At the same time they need to be taking strategic decisions about their future careers.
Brings the rhetorical situation to life by translating rhetorical theory into easy-to-follow (and easy-to-teach) techniques that help sharpen students' ability to observe what words, assertions, or opinions might work best with a particular audience in a specific situation.
A collection of rhetorically organized essays and articles that pertain to topics as varied as the environment, culture, social issues, the media, and business. It appeals to students of various backgrounds and interests and emphasizes critical thinking, and careful analysis. It contains over seventy readings.
Based on the premise that timed writing is a skill that anyone can learn, this handbook breaks down the essay-writing process into an easily mastered regimen that includes brainstorming, writing an outline, and time-management strategies. It provides an overview of grammar and vocabulary, and handy writing shortcuts.
Exams frighten almost everyone. Fear of failure can make students struggle with coursework, revision and exams. Allaying the anxieties that cause people to procrastinate, go blank, or underperform, this book helps you to understand your fears; stop panicking and start enjoying your work; and develop a balanced mental approach to your exams.
Presents readers guidance on dissertation, from ways to improve one's writing, to identifying one's learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks. This title offers advice on the dissertation process, such as: selecting a suitable topic; conducting a literature review; managing data overload; and, building an argument.
A lively and original perspective on gaining an outstanding degree from a recent first-class graduate. Combines personal experience, scientific research and motivational anecdotes from students to create a comprehensive guide to academic success, with strategies to immediately boost grades and improve confidence.
Covers the FDA regulations on electronic signatures and records. This book deals with topics such as: history of Part 11; regulations of Part 11; and, implementation of Part 11. It is intended for both pharmaceutical/medical device manufacturing and clinical research personnel in FDA-regulated industries.
Written by the makers of the real tests, this title presents the review of various materials on the selected Praxis exam and a practice test. It covers three categories of assessments which correspond to the three milestones in teacher development - academic skills assessment, subject assessment, and classroom performance assessment.
Highlights key skills and strategies required to successfully read college-level materials. This title describes elements that often appear in textbooks, such as definitions, visual aids, and charts. It examines how to deal with distractions, manage time, take notes, and read critically.
Provides sample exams designed to match the real ACT exam in degree of difficulty, as well as classroom-tested tips and strategies for mastering various question types. This title features: an 8-page Welcome section on 'How to Use This Book', 'ACT Study Plan', 'Getting the Most from the Online Tests', and more; and 8-week ACT Training Schedule.
Guides student writers in developing their understanding of the rhetorical situation. This grammar-first handbook provides comprehensive coverage of grammar, style, punctuation, mechanics, writing, and research - all presented in the context of rhetorical concerns, including the writer, reader, message, context, and purpose.
Combines a process-oriented approach to argumentative writing with essays and visuals. This title includes the readings that explore different perspectives on relevant topics such as the obesity epidemic, student loan debt, and racism, covering the issues students grapple with in their lives as citizens, consumers, and family members.
Helps certify your knowledge of HIPAA privacy. This book provides you with documentation of HIPAA mandated training, and helps prepare for administering a HIPAA program. It contains 13 HIPAA courses including: HIPAA Privacy Compliance Planning; HIPAA 1 Overview; HIPAA 2 Business Associates and Covered Entities; and, HIPAA 4 Data Security.
Provides career-oriented students with guidance on writing, research, grammar, style, usage and the importance of writing in their success. This book also provides a profile of the role writing plays in a variety of professions - a chef, an accountant, an industrial designer, a nurse, a paralegal, a police officer, and more.
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is a paper-based test that consists of four modules - Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. This title provides intensive instruction and practice for every question type you may encounter on this important exam, and four complete sample tests with explanations.
Gives you an introduction to computer systems validation. This book contains information about regulations, the personnel responsible for computer validation, how to accomplish validation, examples of regulatory problems, and so on. It is intended for the medical device, food, and cosmetic industries.
Want to turn failure into success? Attending school, but not liking it? Studying hard, yet scoring low? And reading lessons and still confused? This book helps conquers the anxiety of parents, the helplessness of teachers and the frustration of students.
Every year the skill levels needed to achieve success in both work and school become higher and higher as competition grows ever more fierce. This guide helps you to master the seven elements of study skills, making it possible for readers to tap into their hidden potential and increase their learning power.
Helps certify your knowledge of OSHA compliance management while teaching you how to run an OSHA program and prevent injuries. This book includes courses such as: Workplace Violence; Bloodborne Pathogens; Repetitive Strain Injury; Hazard Communications; Control of Hazardous Energy; Medical Recordkeeping; and, Surviving OSHA Inspections.
With tips on punctuation, style, grammar and essay structure, this handy guide provides succinct and practical guidance on students' most common areas of concern in their written work. Each tip is supplemented by authentic examples of student writing; suggested re-writes; and appropriate self-help exercises.
Tells the author's story about how he overcame poverty and parental abuse, and progressed from doing badly in primary school to topping his class in postgraduate studies. This book includes stories about "famous failures" - people who succeeded in life despite having little or no formal education, such as Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln.
Showing students that the act of writing is connected to their daily lives, this title emphasizes invention to help students rediscover concepts, uncover meaning, and rethink the world around them. It offers students and teachers pedagogy for making meaning and generating writing, at the intersection of academic and nonacademic life.
Much work-based training is a waste of time because the majority of people are neither emotionally ready to learn nor inclined to apply their learning to the way they behave. This book offers a new model of learning - READY, GO, STEADY - which could revolutionize the way one learns and performs.
A practical, useful guide for all students in further or higher education. Topics covered include speaking effectively in seminars and tutorials, delivering formal presentations and succeeding at a job interviews. Regular checklists and the friendly, down to earth style make this an ideal reference tool.
Written by the makers of the real tests, this title presents a review of the material on the selected Praxis exam and a practice test. It covers the three categories of assessments which correspond to the three milestones in teacher development - academic skills assessment, subject assessment, and classroom performance assessment.
The Study Skills Handbook is the only study skills book to cover all the core skills. This No.1 bestseller introduces students to the skills they need to succeed in HE in a user-friendly, interactive format. The 3rd edition has new chapters on e-learning and numeracy.
This guide provides students with practical advice and ideas to help them work effectively with other people and get the most out of their group project. It takes the reader from forming a group, working together on a project, dealing with conflict, using online resources through to delivering a group assessment.
Suitable for students and educators of literary fiction, this guide provides sections that include: Literary Interpretation; Writing Style and Structure; Themes and Focus Points; Characaterisation; Historical Information; Novel Summary; Author Information; Images, Symbols and Metaphors; and, Important"es.
Concerned with learning how to learn, this text includes the following topics: remembering people's names; improving memory; improving spelling; reading faster; improving comprehension; learning foreign languages quickly; and writing more creatively and fluently.
Helps you to succeed in ACT exam with comprehensive learning and practice tests. This title analyzes your test readiness and areas for further study with chapter tests. It includes test-taking strategies, Study Tips, and Exam Alerts. It also discusses various subject areas covered by the ACT, along with practice questions.
Moves students through the steps that constitute successful writing from finding appropriate topics and writing clear thesis statements to arranging ideas and developing initial drafts. This book provides several sample student papers in various disciplines, along with instruction for successfully completing similar assignments.
Successful study skills, employability skills and career development. This helps student to develop their transferable skills as part of their studies. It has lots of exercises and ideas to help students become better at planning their skills and career development. It is part of the personal development planning (PDP) that leads to success.
Focuses on helping you become actively engaged in your own learning. This text incorporates active learning strategies to help you succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing you to practice it, and asking you to do self-assessments to gain feedback on your own success.
Based on a 'whole language approach', this text recognizes that students learn best by doing, and writers learn best when inspired by compelling reasons to write, aided by strong examples, and reinforced by immediate personal rewards. It leads students step by step through the writing process, from pre-writing to polishing the final draft.
Provides guidance to the core areas of practical, aspirational and transferable skills needed by a student to achieve success on an academic course and to secure improved grades. This work also develops key workplace skills that can enable them to achieve success in their onward career.
This guide aims to provide techniques that aid medical students in their understanding, analysis and recollection of study material. Topics discussed include taking notes, time management, problem-solving, stress management, organization, working in study groups and preparing for exams.
A practical guide to effective revision and success in exams, taking the reader through a fourteen-day programme which ensures maximum results in the time available. With illustrations to enhance the text, it shows the reader how to tackle common revision and exam challenges through exercises, checklists and worked examples.
Offers students with techniques for making the most of their contact time whilst at university, as well as advice on how to do well with coursework, projects, presentations, vivas, exams and in a variety of other academic situations. This book also explores issues outside of academic study such as stress, lifestyle and extra-curricular activities.
Focuses on improving reading skills at the 'micro-level' and moving on to the 'macro-level.' This title uses a carefully designed sequence of explanations and exercises that allows students to approach critical reading as a natural extension of essential comprehension skills, rather than a discrete set of new strategies.
A handbook that covers the essentials of the writing process - taking students through the research process to the mechanics of writing and using punctuation to the evaluation and documentation of both print and electronic source materials. It teaches you how to find, analyze, and cite visual arguments and to create multimedia arguments.
Helps you in improving the effectiveness of your studying. This book shows how to make a study schedule, how to design an effective study space, how to read for comprehension, how to get organized, how to find your learning style, how to listen better in class, how to use reference sources, and how to boost your concentration.
Suitable for students who need to develop the study skills required to successfully complete their college education, this guide helps students learn how to prepare for class, develop textbook reading strategies, use effective note-taking techniques, strengthen their test-taking skills, and carry their skills forward.
Dissertations aren't walls to scale or battles to fight; they are destinations along the path to a professional career. This guide helps doctoral students develop and write their dissertations, using travel as a metaphor. It includes many examples from throughout the dissertation process, such as creating the dissertation proposal and coding data.
Guides the students through various steps of the writing process, giving them what they need to know for a specific writing task. This title incorporates the writing process, grammar, and professional writing models into the discussion of the methods of development.
A guide to the theoretical and practical aspects of the process of doing an undergraduate dissertation, equipping the reader with the skills necessary to plan, conduct and write up a research project successfully. It contains information and guidance on crucial issues such as ethics, research governance and appraising the quality of the evidence.
Offers students with coverage of rhetorical concerns, the writing and research process, writing and researching with computers, and other topics essential for twenty-first-century student writers. This text helps students develop the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills they need to become successful communicators in college and beyond.
Reflection is a technique for aiding and reinforcing learning, used in education and professional development. This volume offers practitioners and students guidance that cuts across theoretical approaches, enabling them to understand and use reflection to enhance learning in practice.
Students need to learn to manage their time, organise their studies, understand, learn, and convey a lot of information - and they need to learn to do it quickly. This title helps you discover how to excel at: speed-reading and essay-writing; improving your memory, critical thinking and analysis; and, using the internet to supplement study.
This bestselling planner is the complete self-management tool for students. It contains everything students need to organize their information and time effectively, including study skills advice, diary pages, personal finance guidance, timetables, useful contacts and websites, spelling rules, notes pages, bookmark, and plastic pocket.
Presents necessary, useful skills and strategies for successful workplace writing. This text maintains a practical approach, an abundance of realistic situations and problems, real-world examples, and detailed guidelines for drafting, editing, and producing professional documents and graphics.
Organized around common rhetorical situations that occur all around us, this title shows you that argument is a living process rather than a form to be modeled. Focusing on invention, it helps you learn to recognize the rhetorical elements of any argumentative situation and apply the tools of argument effectively in your own writing.
Helps students transition from writing 'the research paper' to doing research writing, from reporting information to working with ideas. This handbook helps students learn the research and writing skills needed for research projects and also enables them to apply and transfer these skills to their own disciplines.
This practical and easy-to-use guide allows students to master the essentials of critical thinking in just one hour. With advice, useful checklists and exercises to help students develop and apply core critical thinking skills. From constructing sound arguments to evaluating evidence and critical analysis.
Gives you the tools and techniques you need to work a bit of creative magic into various aspects of your studying. This book shows you: what the whole creativity business is about why you need to bother with it; methods to stimulate your brain into action; and how to come up with a mass of ideas at a moment's notice.
This practical and jargon-free guide shows students how to easily master essential study skills in just one hour. With advice, useful checklists and exercises covering every key area, from developing crucial time management, easy note taking and critical thinking to essay writing good practice and exam know-how.
Cheryl Glenn's THE HARBRACE GUIDE TO WRITING, Second Edition, brings the rhetorical situation to life by translating rhetorical theory into easy-to-follow (and easy-to-teach) techniques that help sharpen students' ability to observe what words, assertions, or opinions might work best with a particular audience in a specific situation.