The Study Skills Guide: Essential Strategies for Smart Students (Elite Students Series) - Softcover

Connelly, Jacqueline; Forsyth, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749461268 ISBN 13: 9780749461263

Publisher: Kogan page, 2010

Synopsis

<p><b><i>The Study Skills Guide </i></b>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.<br><br>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.</p>

About this title

About the Authors

<b>Jacqueline Connelly</b> has a wealth of experience of universities, including holding senior managerial posts at both Lancaster and Kent Universities.

<b>Patrick Forsyth</b> runs Touchstone Training &amp; 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: <b><i>How to Motivate People</i>, <i>Successful Time Management</i></b>, <i><b>How to Write Reports and Proposals</b></i>, <i><b>Tough Tactics for Tough Times</b></i>, <i><b>Effective Business Writing</b></i> and <i><b>The PowerPoint Detox</b></i> (all published by Kogan Page). He writes regularly for a number of business journals and for <i>Writing Magazine</i>, and devises and writes training materials.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan page
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749461268
• ISBN 13: 9780749461263
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184