The Study Skills Guide: Essential Strategies for Smart Students
Author(s): Jacqueline Connelly (Author), Patrick Forsyth (Author)
Publisher: Kogan page
Publication Date: 3 Sept. 2010
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 184 pages
ISBN-10: 0749461268
ISBN-13: 9780749461263
Book Description
The Study Skills Guide covers the essential skills that lead to success at university. With advice on how to work efficiently and achieve great results, this comprehensive guide offers practical and proven ways to cope with the challenges you will face. Designed to help you achieve important goals, it offers vital advice on how to the get the best out of your study, including advice on revision and exam techniques; tips on note-taking and writing good essays and dissertations and guidance on how to impress with presentations.
With free online downloadable resource material, this essential guide provides a firm foundation to your time at university and a catalyst to success in everything from working with academic staff and getting the most from lectures, to writing good essays fast.
Editorial Reviews
From the Author
I have written many books on business skills, careers and more and always aim above all for practicality. With this one (with a co-author well versed in the ways of universities and students) the idea was to focus on the essentials – what a student really must do to maximise the chances of success – and do so in a straightforward way that emphasised what to do and how to go about it. Research showed that many students saw existing guides as verbose (and somewhat theoretical)- this is intended as the antidote to that: it succinctly covers the key issues and provides an invaluable guide for the smart student (someone wanting to do well, while enjoying the whole experience). Initial feedback is, I am pleased to say, excellent.
About the Author
Jacqueline Connelly has a wealth of experience of universities, including holding senior managerial posts at both Lancaster and Kent Universities.
Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy based in the UK and specialises in marketing, sales and communications skills. Writing is a significant part of his own work portfolio. He is the author of more than fifty successful business books (with translations into 23 languages). These include: How to Motivate People, Successful Time Management, How to Write Reports and Proposals, Tough Tactics for Tough Times, Effective Business Writing and The PowerPoint Detox (all published by Kogan Page). He writes regularly for a number of business journals and for Writing Magazine, and devises and writes training materials.
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