How to Study: A Short Introduction (SAGE Study Skills Series) - Softcover

Turner, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761968083 ISBN 13: 9780761968085

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

`This book is a must-read for all students trying to grapple their way through and somehow ′finish college′′ - Sharada Prahladrao, The Decan Herald  

Any student can improve their learning in higher education if they want to, and the aim of this guide is to help you along this route, not by claiming there is only one right way to do things but by building awareness of different approaches, attitudes, and strategies. Key to this is the notion of active learning which is highlighted throughout the book with the acronym ASCERTAIN whose individual letters signal a range of different strategies and attitudes relevant in different contexts.

Throughout, there is an awareness that among the different cultures students participate in, academic culture has its own set of values which academic staff tend to take for granted, but which students may need to have a greater awareness of, and build into your thinking and working.


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About this title

About the Author

Joan Turner is a senior lecturer and Head of the Language Studies Centre at Goldsmiths. She has a broad professional interest in language teaching and learning pedagogies, across the institutional contexts in which they are situated. Her specific research interests are in language and culture in higher education and she has published on intercultural communication, academic literacy, English for Academic Purposes, and conceptual metaphors underpinning rationality in the western academic tradition. Her latest book (under review for Multilingual Matters) is entitled: Languaging in the Academy.

From the Back Cover

Any student can improve their learning in higher education if they want to, and the aim of this guide is to help them along this route, not by claiming there is only one right way to do things but by building awareness of different approaches, attitudes, and strategies. Key to this is the notion of active learning which is highlighted throughout the book with the acronym ASCERTAIN whose individual letters signal a range of different strategies and attitudes relevant in different contexts.Throughout, there is an awareness that among the different cultures students participate in, academic culture has its own set of values which academic staff tend to take for granted, but which students may need to have a greater awareness of, and build into their thinking and working.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761968083
• ISBN 13: 9780761968085
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162