This engaging, student-friendly book debunks major myths about studying and provides practical tips for how students can learn to study smarter, not harder.
These days college is not a luxury but a necessity. With four (or more) long years of college life ahead of them, it's essential that students have some help to make the most of their time. This book explains how, featuring peers who talk directly and personally to students.
For college students with ADHD/LD and high school students getting ready to apply, this Survival Guide contains everything you need to know to for your bright future.
An updated edition of a college survival primer by two college professors shares essential advice and strategies on topics ranging from stress management and test preparation to staying motivated and balancing academics with a social life.
In this book we discuss time management techniques, identify the ineffective study strategies students often use, and more.
This book has strategies and tips that every online professor wants students to know before they sign up for an online class.
The OER provides an entry point for future students and the public, based on the evaluation of annotations and notes.
This book teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.
Effective time management is one of today's most overlooked--yet essential --keys to career growth in business and management. Time Management provides hands-on techniques and tools for making every minute count as it dispels myths that can actually cost instead of save valuable time.
Discover the internationally acclaimed time management system that's gone viral on TikTok and has already changed millions of lives! Francesco Cirillo developed his famed system for improving productivity as a college student thirty years ago.
Improve your working practices With the help of clear diagrams, checklists and models, this pocket guide will enable you to: transform your methods of working prioritise your tasks.
This book encapsulates how to establish clear long-term goals and link your daily action planning to their achievement. It provides you with the tools, techniques and framework for continuing personal development.
An indispensable reference for Postgraduates, providing up to date guidance in all subject areas Methods for Postgraduates brings together guidance for postgraduate students on how to organize, plan and do research from an interdisciplinary perspective
Both of these works reflect authors who are teaching historians, while Presnell comes at her subject from the standpoint of a practicing librarian-she is information services librarian and history, American studies, military science, and women's studies bibliographer at the Miami University of Ohio-who blends her knowledge of how students usually approach historical research with a concomitant understanding of how historical sources should be pursued and described.
A foundational guide to practice-related research in the arts. This book offers definitions and a brief background to practice-based research in the arts, contextualization of practice-based methods, a step-by-step approach to designing research projects, chapter summaries, examples of practice-related research, exercises for progressing methods design and evaluating research approach, and lists for further reading. This textbook can serve as the foundation for a wider, online "living" textbook for practice-related research in the arts.
The book will be useful to higher education administrators and institutional research officers looking for information on how to partner with libraries to increase the effectiveness of collaborative research.
This guide is designed to support health and social care researchers and practitioners to integrate qualitative research into the evidence base of health and social care research. Qualitative research designs are diverse and each design has a different focus that will inform the approach undertaken and the results that are generated.
By clearly communicating the basic principles of academic honesty and exploring these principles in action, Doing Honest Work in College promotes genuine learning and academic success. This must-have reference empowers faculty and students to address questions about academic honesty before problems arise. It will be the book students turn to for advice from their first class to their final exam.
This piece was originally developed as a classroom tool and can be used by professors teaching qualitative research in conjunction with academic readings about qualitative interviewing.
What good goals look like -- Start early and keep it up: setting goals for all students -- Build the habit -- Showcase success through balanced assessment -- Create personal relevance.
An evidence-based, practical guide to reflection on the most important goals in life, this book provides a unique framework and thought-provoking exercises to modify personal and professional goals to increase happiness.
This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the Reflective Goal Setting model, its theoretical framework and origins, and its practical applications for personal development, improved coping and reduced stress, academic growth and leadership.
"Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life delves deeply into effective goal setting practices.