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Making the Grade: A Guide to Successful Communication and Study
A comprehensive source of information on study and communication skills for tertiary-level students. Chapters outline the whys and hows of essays, research and laboratory reports, reviews, summaries, and more.
254 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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November 1, 2020
‘This book is a practical guide for students, full of the essential communication and study skills that will help them ‘make the grade’. Covering all the skills that will be used across a degree, the book begins with listening skills, efficient time management and working effectively with a team and takes students right through their course to the best tips for taking exams.
In between, it investigates and explains all formats in which lecturers usually ask students to convey their ideas, including essays, reports, annotated bibliographies, reviews, oral presentations, posters, and figures and tables. It also offers assistance revision, referencing and using the library effectively.
Students can read the book from front to back, look up particular topics as they need to, or use just one section they find useful. Each chapter is self-contained and deals with a different aspect of the skills necessary for both successful university learning and communication, assisting students to navigate the culture, language and conventions of successful study at university.’
This book is awesome.
I had to read this book as part of my required reading at University, and I am very glad that I did. I found it really useful and actually quite interesting.
This book covers so many different facets of university work while giving you tips and ways in which you can better understand and manage your time at university.
I really like the way each section in broken down and that there are diagrams explaining or and showing the reader how things are suppose to be done at university.
One of the best aspects in my opinion is all of the timetables and marking criteria sheets. Not only have I now started using some of the timetables in my own study, but seeing the marking criteria laid out helped me see what was expected of me, in both my course work and assessments, in a clear and concise way.
Making The Grade by Iain Hay is a must have for all university students or soon to be university students.
Geramie Kate Barker
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In between, it investigates and explains all formats in which lecturers usually ask students to convey their ideas, including essays, reports, annotated bibliographies, reviews, oral presentations, posters, and figures and tables. It also offers assistance revision, referencing and using the library effectively.
Students can read the book from front to back, look up particular topics as they need to, or use just one section they find useful. Each chapter is self-contained and deals with a different aspect of the skills necessary for both successful university learning and communication, assisting students to navigate the culture, language and conventions of successful study at university.’
This book is awesome.
I had to read this book as part of my required reading at University, and I am very glad that I did. I found it really useful and actually quite interesting.
This book covers so many different facets of university work while giving you tips and ways in which you can better understand and manage your time at university.
I really like the way each section in broken down and that there are diagrams explaining or and showing the reader how things are suppose to be done at university.
One of the best aspects in my opinion is all of the timetables and marking criteria sheets. Not only have I now started using some of the timetables in my own study, but seeing the marking criteria laid out helped me see what was expected of me, in both my course work and assessments, in a clear and concise way.
Making The Grade by Iain Hay is a must have for all university students or soon to be university students.
Geramie Kate Barker
gemsbooknook.wordpress.com
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