Effective Study Skills
By Geraldine Price & Pat Maier
September 2007
Pearson Longman
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publication
ISBN: 9781405840736 
360 pages, Illustrated, 6 3/4 x 9 1/2"
$39.50 paper original
This is a high-quality, rigorous academic skills textbook providing essential
guidance to the core areas of practical, aspirational and transferable skills
needed by a student both to achieve success on any academic course and to secure
improved grades.
It will also develop key workplace skills that will enable them to achieve
success in their onward career.
Contents
How to use this book
Learning in HE
This book will help you :
1 … Manage Yourself
1.1 Managing Stress
1.2 Managing your Time
2 … Improve Your Work
2.1 Note-making techniques
2.2 How to get the most out of lectures
2.3 Working in a Real Team
2.4 Presenting your work
2.5 Excelling in Exams
3 …Optimize Your Reading
3.1 Skills for efficient reading
3.2 Finding your way around text
3.3 Critical Reading
3.4 Managing your reading
4 …Develop Your Writing
4.1 Taking control of the writing process
4.2 Understanding Academic Integrity: plagiarism
4.3 Making the most of tutors’ feed-back
Features
- Provides practical advice on the key skills required by students throughout university
- Develops valued transferable skills that will benefit students as they pursue a chosen career path
- Guidance is delivered in a fresh, contemporary style to reinforce how important and competitive these skills are
- Emphasizes how this book is devoted to developing the aspirational nature of core skills as opposed to an aid for remedial help
- Structured around the student life cycle ensuring its use throughout a student’s time at college and beyond
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