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Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University

Fourth Edition
by Tom Burns and Sandra Sinfield

Student Resources

  • Study Skills
  1. Introduction
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
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  2. How to Learn; How to Study
    • Journal articles
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  3. Make University Positive
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
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  4. How to Survive Academic Reading
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
    • Web links
  5. How to Make the Best Notes
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
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  6. How to be Creative and Visual in Your Learning
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
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  7. How to be Analytical and Critical
    • Journal articles
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  8. How to be Reflective
    • Journal articles
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  9. How To Get on in Groups
    • Journal articles
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  10. How to Harness a Digital You
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
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  11. How to Make Sense of Your Course
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
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  12. Probably the Most Important Thing on Writing You’ll Ever Read
    • Journal articles
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  13. The Ten Step Approach to Better Assignments
    • Journal articles
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  14. How to Reference and Avoid Plagiarism
    • Journal articles
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  15. How to Write Great Essays
    • Journal articles
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  16. How to Produce Excellent Reports
    • Journal articles
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  17. How to Deliver Excellent Presentations
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
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  18. How to Run Your Own Seminars and Workshops
    • Journal articles
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  19. How to Write a Brilliant Dissertation
    • Journal articles
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  20. How to Revise for and Pass Exams
    • Journal articles
    • Web activities
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  21. PDP and HEAR: Knowing Who You Are, Becoming Who You Want to Be
    • Journal articles
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  22. How to Move On… and Get That Job
    • Journal articles
    • Web links

Journal articles

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  • Intimidation in Small Learning Groups: The Roles of Social-comparison Concern, Comfort, and Individual Characteristics in Student Academic Outcomes, Marina Micari and Denise Drane, Active Learning in Higher Education, November 2011; vol. 12, 3: pp. 175–187
     
  • Tête à tête: Reading Groups and Peer Learning, Sara-Jane Finlay and Guy Faulkner, Active Learning in Higher Education, March 2005; vol. 6, 1: pp. 32–45
     
  • University Sstudents' Attitudes about Learning in Small Groups after Frequent Participation, Cinnamon Hillyard, Diane Gillespie, and Peter Littigm, Active Learning in Higher Education, March 2010; vol. 11, 1: pp. 9–20
     
  • Group Discussion and the Importance of a Shared Perspective: Learning from Collaborative Research, Roy Corden, Qualitative Research, December 2001; vol. 1, 3: pp. 347–367
     
  • Students’ Experiences of Active Engagement through Cooperative Learning Activities in Lectures, Michael Cavanagh, Active Learning in Higher Education, March 2011; vol. 12, 1: pp. 23–33 

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