Doing Essays and Assignments: Essential Tips for Students
Autor Pete Greasleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 aug 2016
Are you struggling to make the jump from a second to a first?
Doing Essays and Assignments gives you an insider’s view on what tutors and professors really want when they assign essays and projects, and reveals how you can raise your game and achieve the best grades.
Drawing on a survey of lecturers, and examples of real student work, this handy guide provides practical advice to help you not only understand what is expected of you, but also get ideas on how to deliver what your tutor is looking for. Providing a behind-the-scenes look at marking, find out how you can successfully craft the perfect written assignment, and discover tips and techniques on:
- Planning and deadlines, helping you manage your workload effectively
- Gaining higher marks through critically formed arguments
- Communicating clearly with the correct language, grammar, and expression
- Avoiding common marking pitfalls such as referencing and plagiarism.
SAGE Study Skills are essential study guides for students of all levels. From how to write great essays and succeeding at university, to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research, SAGE Study Skills help you get the best from your time at university. Visit the SAGE Study Skills hub for tips, resources and videos on study success!
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781473912076
ISBN-10: 1473912075
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 170 x 242 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1473912075
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 170 x 242 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
This book is a no-nonsense, unique proposition for students who want to take an extra effort to improve their grades. It clearly demonstrates how to impress markers by demonstrating some crucial university-level skills, or what essay-writing has to do with eating an elephant. If you are a student or a parent of a student, this book is a small investment which can bring tangible results!'
This book offers students an accessible, witty but insightful look at key assessment skills. The new edition addresses how to succeed at various assessment types including the thorny issue of group work! A worthwhile addition for all new students embarking on higher education.
This book offers students an accessible, witty but insightful look at key assessment skills. The new edition addresses how to succeed at various assessment types including the thorny issue of group work! A worthwhile addition for all new students embarking on higher education.
Cuprins
An insight into the marking process
How to impress and how to distress markers
Before you start, some rules of the game
Getting started . . . and getting finished
Reading and researching the literature
Introductions, conclusions, and structure
What was the question again?
Critical analysis, perspective and argument
The greatest source of 'marker distress': language, grammar and expression
Referencing - an academic fetish for the anally retentive?
Plagiarism
How not to present graphs and charts
Presenting your assignment: first impressions count
Feedback and feed-forward
Writing research/project reports
Doing a Systematic Literature Review
Presentation: A fate worse than death?
Group project work (or 'hell is other people')
How to impress and how to distress markers
Before you start, some rules of the game
Getting started . . . and getting finished
Reading and researching the literature
Introductions, conclusions, and structure
What was the question again?
Critical analysis, perspective and argument
The greatest source of 'marker distress': language, grammar and expression
Referencing - an academic fetish for the anally retentive?
Plagiarism
How not to present graphs and charts
Presenting your assignment: first impressions count
Feedback and feed-forward
Writing research/project reports
Doing a Systematic Literature Review
Presentation: A fate worse than death?
Group project work (or 'hell is other people')
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Descriere
An insider’s guide to what university tutors really want from an essay or assignment, this witty guide gives you practical tips and techniques on how to craft the perfect assignment and achieve the best grades.