Study Skills for Foundation Degrees
eBook - ePub

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

  1. 188 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

About this book

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees offers a step-by-step guide to the skills needed to successfully complete a Foundation Degree. Filled with activities and useful tips, it will help students to move from nervous novice to confident expert and provide them with the necessary tools to accomplish this. By reading this book, students will be able to learn new skills and enhance existing ones.

This third edition has been fully updated and features new chapters on e-learning and dissertations as well as expanded sections on ethics, feedback and referencing. Each chapter includes practical guidance as well as student perspectives that will help students through their course of study. It includes advice on how to support learning, boost motivation and enhance time management, and covers all the essential skills required for successful study, including:

  • Effective reading and note-taking strategies
  • Developing oral skills in a wide range of presentation settings, including what makes a good presentation and how each stage of the process can be prepared for
  • Carrying out well-planned, methodologically sound and well-written research
  • Preparing for examinations and other forms of assessment
  • Producing a professional development portfolio or winning CV

Highly accessible, this new edition is an essential resource for all Foundation Degree students who want to get the most out of their course, mature students or anyone with limited or no experience of academic study.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. About the authors
  9. 1 Preparing for foundation degree study
  10. 2 Learning as an adult
  11. 3 Effective reading and note-taking strategies
  12. 4 Developing your oral presentation skills
  13. 5 Data collection and presentation
  14. 6 Effective academic writing techniques - essays
  15. 7 Effective academic writing techniques - other types of assignments
  16. 8 Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
  17. 9 Using technology to enhance your learning
  18. 10 How to manage your time, handle stress and cope with exams
  19. 11 Reflective practice and continuing professional development
  20. 12 Progressing to an honours degree and producing a winning CV
  21. Bibliography
  22. Websites
  23. Glossary
  24. Index