The student skills guide pdf

Finally, it helps you to develop the skills you will need to stay organised and motivated throughout your student career, from avoiding procrastination through to understanding self-motivation. No student, or potential student, can afford to be without it!

A common complaint among many students is that they have never been taught how to study. They do not know how to read critically, or write an essay or report. Nobody has ever explained how to revise, or provided advice about passing exams. From helping you to understand how you learn, through reading, writing assignments, doing basic research, revising and taking exams, our eBook covers all the essential study skills in a straightforward and practical way.

Aimed principally at those starting to study independently, it will nonetheless also be useful to school students and more experienced learners who want to refresh their skills, as well as teachers and tutors looking for material to help their students. A dissertation or thesis may well be the longest single piece of work that you have ever been asked to do. It may also form a substantial part of the overall mark for your degree, and is therefore both vitally important and very challenging.

This eBook takes you through the process of writing your dissertation, from the earliest stages to submission. It starts with your research proposal, an early check that you know what you are doing, and then takes you through each stage—literature review, deciding on your methods, writing up your results, and drawing conclusions.

It also provides a useful guide to referencing. This book is designed to make the process smoother, easier and therefore less stressful.

No student needing to write a dissertation can afford to be without it! Many undergraduate, and most postgraduate, courses require students to undertake a substantial piece of research—and many students find it hard to know where to start. This eBook provides a step-by-step guide to research methods. It focuses particularly on methods used in social sciences, humanities and healthcare research, and does not cover laboratory research, although some of the principles may be helpful to any researcher.

From selecting and understanding the philosophy underpinning your research, through research design, into choosing your method and carrying out your research, then analysing your findings, it is an essential companion for any new researcher. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.

JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it. Download PDF Viewer. Author s Specht, Doug. Show full item record. Abstract "All the tips, ideas and advice given to, and requested by, MA students in Media and Communications, are brought together in an easy-to-use accessible guide to help students study most effectively.

Based upon many years of teaching study skills and hundreds of lecture slides and handouts this introduction covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards media and communications studies. As well as the mechanics of writing and presentations, the book also shows how students can work on and engage with the critical and contemplative elements of their degrees whilst retaining motivation and refining timekeeping skills.

Urbina, I. The effects of student participation in the cultural Spanish translation of the Student Success Skills program on high school student achievement. Doctoral dissertation. Retrieved from ProQuest. Webb, L. Results of a randomized controlled trial of Student Success Skills.

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The SSS model also features a parent education component.