The study skills handbook
Stella Cottrell
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | ix, 446 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | Sixth edition
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| Opplysninger | Introducing The Study Skills Handbook -- Is this book for you? -- How to use The Study Skills Handbook -- Icons used in the book -- Where to begin -- Seven approaches to learning -- A new beginning ... -- Companion site for The Study Skills Handbook -- A. Self-efficacy: managing your success as a student -- 1. Success as a student: take charge of your success -- Introduction -- Make the experience work for you -- Clarity of purpose: your vision of success -- Success as a student: where am I now? -- Success as a student: what lecturers say -- What to expect in Higher Education: teaching -- How is higher-level study different? -- Understanding higher-level study -- Independent study: benefits, challenges, risks -- What is expected from you? -- What kind of study skills do you need? -- Self-efficacy skills: managing yourself for study -- Academic skills -- People skills and task-management skills -- Developing your skills -- Study skills: priorities (stages 1 and 2) -- Study skills action plan -- Review -- 2. Gaining the most from your course: Engage. Enjoy. Excel -- Introduction -- Ten golden rules -- Effective use of tutorials/supervision -- Be well informed: find out -- Engage with technology-enhanced learning -- Gain from scheduled learning: purpose and value -- 'Flip your learning': preparing in advance -- Engaging in taught sessions -- Practicals, studio and lab work -- Distance and block learning -- Self-evaluation: Making good use of taught sessions -- Engage fully with your course outside class time -- Use recorded lectures effectively -- Checklist: Managing independent and online study -- Making sense of difficult material -- Make course material your own -- Get under the skin of your subject disciplines -- Review -- 3. Employability and preparing for your future -- Introduction -- Planning towards your future -- Your personal development so far -- Developing work and career readiness -- Recognizing your skills and qualities -- Your personal skills profile -- Skills audit: current skills and qualities -- Preparing for work with employers -- Articulate your abilities to employers -- Translate academic skills into employment skills -- Building your CV while a student -- Recording your achievements -- Taking further qualifications and training -- Enterprise and selfemployment -- Review -- 4. Successful study: Boost your brain build study stamina personalize study strategy -- Introduction -- Am I intelligent enough? -- What is 'learning'? -- Six conditions for learning -- 'My brain won't work!': boost your brain power -- Build your study stamina and improve concentration -- Optimal learning -- What kind of learner am I? Learning SHAPES -- Identify your personal learning formula -- Your learning preferences -- Develop your personal learning strategy -- Personalize learning -- using technologies -- Study strategy -- individual or social?. - This is the ultimate guide to study skills, written by million copy bestselling author Stella Cottrell. Her tried and tested approach, based on over 20 years' experience of working with students, has helped over a million students to achieve their potential. When it comes to studying, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. This engaging and accessible guide shows students how to tailor their learning to their individual needs in order to boost their grades, build their confidence and increase their employability. Fully revised for the sixth edition, it contains everything students need to succeed. This is an invaluable resource for undergraduate students of all disciplines, and is also ideal for postgraduates, mature students and international students. It prepares students for what to expect before, during and after their studies at university. New content in this edition helps students make the most of online learning, with a new self-evaluation page and more on working collaboratively online. This edition includes support tailored for students on hybrid, asynchronous or distance learning courses as well as more material on building study stamina and improving concentration.
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| ISBN | 978135021288. - 9781350421271. - 9781350421295
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