Study Skills 2.0
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It covers every aspect of study skills – reading, writing, research, revision, exams, and even presentations. It can be used for self-instruction, for reference, or as a HELP program whilst using a word-processor. Instant access to guidance notes with extensive hypertext links. Suitable for all students in further and higher education. Latest version allows you to customise screen fonts and background colour.
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Sample pages Exam techniques – Analysing questions – Net searching
Full contents
A brief review – A good essay – Abbreviations – Analysing questions
Apostrophes – Bibliographies – Brackets – Brainstorming – Capitals
Categorising – Clear thinking – Colons – Commas – Common problems
Concentration – Concept trees – Confidence – Conclusions – Creating
structure – Disks – Drafts – Editing – Efficient reading – Electronic sources
Emphasis – End of term exam – Endnotes – Essay examinations – Essay
length – Exam papers – Examination by thesis – Examination essays
Examination techniques – Examinations – False arguments – Finding time
Fonts – Footnotes – Full stops – Generating ideas – Getting started
Grammar – Grammar checkers – Harvard referencing – Headings – How
to take notes – Hyphens – Indentation – Instruction terms – Introductions
Key terms – Lectures – Library skills – Making time – Materials – Memory
Mock examinations – Net searching – Notes from books – Notes from
lectures – OHP slides – Open book examinations – Oral examinations
Overcoming nervousness – Page layout – Paper – Paragraphs – Planning
essays – Presentations – Previewing – Punctuation – Quotations – Reading
Reading materials – Reading on screen – Reading skills – References
Relevance – Research – Research projects – Revision – Revision conditions
Revision materials – Revision planning – Revision techniques – Revision
topics – Semicolons – Seminars – Sentences – Short question exams
Some myths dispelled – Spacing – Specimen exam papers – Spelling-checkers
SQ3R – Storage – Stress management – Structure – Study conditions
Successful presentations – Summarising – Take-home papers – Taking notes
Task-based examinations -Tidy pages – Time management – Titles – Tutorials
Types of book – Types of presentation – Types of reading – Underlining
Using time – What examiners want – What to avoid – Word-processors
Writer’s block – Writing strategies
Details
Price – £9.45 [$15.00 - €10.00 equivalent]
Windows / Mac / Linux – 2.0 MB space – 4MB RAM minimum
Version 2.0 issued October 2008 – ISBN
