Essential Academic Skills

Glossary -- 9 Collaborative Learning: Working in Groups -- Collaborative group work -- Cooperative group work -- Formal and informal group work -- Benefits of group work -- Roles people play in groups -- How groups develop -- Managing group work challenges -- Managing micro processes -- Summary -- Glossary -- 10 Presentations -- The art of presentations -- The informative presentation -- Giving a team presentation -- Leading a discussion -- Summary -- Glossary -- 11 Examinations -- Why examinations? -- Learning throughout the course -- Focused learning for an examination: revision.

Essential Academic Skills encourages and supports students to develop their skills to become the best learners they can be. It takes a step-by-step approach to the essential skills required to complete a university degree and provides comprehensive learning support through examples and activities.

Guided Tour -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Thinking About Learning -- Ideas about the nature of learning -- Approaches to learning -- Summary -- Glossary -- 2 Academic Language Support -- The distinctiveness of academic language -- Creating coherence -- Summary -- Glossary -- 3 Listening and Participating -- Listening -- Listening well -- Listening in different contexts -- Summary -- Glossary -- 4 Reading in an Academic Context -- Skills in finding sources -- Reading well -- Summary -- Glossary -- 5 Basic Academic Writing Skills -- Writing objectively.

Incorporating claims from the literature -- Writing citations -- Writing reference lists -- Constructing a paragraph around claims from the literature -- Summary -- Glossary -- 6 Further Academic Skills: Working on an Assignment -- Responding to the assignment task -- Organising ideas and information -- Planning -- Writing drafts -- Summary -- Glossary -- 7 Essays and Reflective Writing -- Essays -- Reflective writing -- Summary -- Glossary -- 8 Doing Case Studies and Writing Reports -- Case studies -- Identifying the problems -- Making recommendations -- Writing up the case study -- Reports.

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