Developing essential study skills - Ms Elaine Payne

This guide to study skills is essential reading for students going to university for the first time. Whether it is read before or alongside a study skills module, this text will enable students to gain the necessary skills and confidence to really make the most of time at university. The aim is to equip students with the key skills to enable success in the highly competitive era of mass higher education, and to cope with the increasing trend toward independent study and lifelong learning. It has been designed to help develop the skills necessary for working life as we move into the new millennium. Since this is primarily a self-study text, an active learning approach has been adopted.FeaturesAn abundance of activities appear throughout each chapter encouraging the students to actively build up their skills as they progress through the book.Written in a lively style likely to appeal to an undergraduate audience.Concepts are clearly expressed and illustrated with diagrams throughout.This book is ideal both as a core text for use on business or study skills courses at undergraduate level and as a primer before starting university.The authors:Elaine Payne and Lesley Whittaker, both of