Synopsis
Transferable Academic Skills Kit TASK is a flexible learning resource that has been carefully designed to develop the key transferable skills that promote students' success in university and college study. Whether you are a student or a teacher, the TASK series provides a tried and tested teaching and learning tool suitable for a broad range of academic disciplines. A series of supported exercises relates theory to practice and provides students with the tools to develop a framework of skills that can then be used in a wide range of contexts both inside and outside the academic world. TASK can be followed as a complete course or individual modules can be selected to address specific needs. Created by members of the academic staff of the International Foundation Programme at the University of Reading, TASK forms a part of the university's skills provision for home and international students at all levels. Key Features - Explains why other sources of information strengthen essays - Familiarizes students with the range of information available - Explores the use and importance of a bibliography - Familiarizes students with the APA referencing system - Teaches students what plagiarism is - Enables students to identify relevant information in their research notes Also available as a boxed set of all twelve modules. Contents: Unit 1: Why research? Unit 2: The research process Unit 3: Writing a bibliography Unit 4: Referring to other sources in your essay Unit 5: Plagiarism Unit 6: Using supporting arguments
About the Author
Anthony Manning is Director of the Centre for English and World Languages at the University of Kent. Anthony has authored or co-authored nine course books in the TASK (Transferable Academic Skills Kit) series. He has also written English for Language and Linguistics as part of the ESAP series; a graded reader for Oxford University Press; articles for EL Gazette and is the Editorial Chair for InForm, a new journal for IFP professionals. Before joining the University of Reading, Anthony taught in France, Germany, China and Japan. He was also a lecturer at a Japanese College situated within the University of Durham, and at an International College in Reading. In his spare time Anthony is studying for a Doctorate in Applied Linguistics with a focus on language testing. He has delivered seminar papers at IATEFL, BALEAP and HEA conferences on the subject of English for academic purposes and academic skills development at foundation level. In addition to language testing, Anthony's other research interests include English for specific purposes and English as a global language. Andrew O'Cain currently teaches Sociology and Study Skills on the Access to Higher Education course at Gloucestershire College. He also tutors for the Open University on the course Power, Dissent, Equality Understanding Contemporary Politics . His previous role was with the University of Reading, where he taught Academic Skills, Politics and Sociology on the International Foundation Programme. He has also lectured on undergraduate courses in Sociology at the University of Reading and in Political Theory, Globalization, Democracy and European Politics at Oxford Brookes University. His research interests are centred on post-modern political theory and practice. He has contributed to two of the volumes in the TASK (Transferable Academic Skills Kit) series: Team-working and Research and Referencing. Jane Brooks wrote the TASK (Transferable Academic Skills Kit) Teacher s Book and has contributed to a number of other modules in the series. She has been working in ELT since 1983. After teaching ESOL for a brief time, she moved into English for Academic Purposes, and has taught this in the UK and Caribbean for the last 23 years. She has also taught linguistics and francophone literature. At present, she is based at the University of Sussex, where she works mostly on pre-sessional courses. She is also researching plagiarism amongst international university students in UK universities
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