Product Description

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees will prepare and guide you through the broad range of study-related issues you can expect to encounter in a clear and accessible manner. By helping you to develop a broad range of study skills essential for success on any FD course, you’ll soon have the confidence to rise to any challenge thrown your way!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75158 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

From the Back Cover

Returning to study but unsure whether you’ve got the skills to cope?

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees will prepare and guide you through the broad range of study-related issues you can expect to encounter in a clear and accessible manner. By helping you to develop a broad range of study skills essential for success on any FD course, you’ll soon have the confidence to rise to any challenge thrown your way! Key features include:

• data collection and presentation
• how to take good notes and read effectively
• developing oral presentation skills and effective writing techniques
• how to produce bibliographies, quotations and citations
• maintaining a work-life balance
• producing a professional development portfolio
• progressing to an honors degree and producing a winning CV.

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees is designed for mature students and those returning to an academic environment after a long absence, but it will also be useful to a wide range of motivated foundation degree students aiming to improve their confidence and study technique.

About the Author
Dr Dorothy Bedford is the Programme Convenor for Roehampton University's Professional Development Programme which includes an extensive range of short courses. Dorothy works on specific project management for RU alongside lecturing Dr Elizabeth Wilson is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development. Dr Wilson has led on Roehampton University's development of Foundation Degrees and teaches on these degrees and other short course programmes for education.

Customer Reviews

Both useful and encouraging
This handbook is written in the down-to-earth style that most of us speak in. It's also set out attractively, with subheadings, text in boxes or sections highlighted to break up the content. I found this style kept my interest and actually made it an enjoyable read.

I was reassured by the 'Managing your morale' section...which lists some of the common causes for low morale that students (especially mature students) can experience. From your printer letting you down to a family member or friend needing you when you have work to finish. I'm not the only one then!!
This is then counterbalanced with a list of situations that can improve your morale.
The book includes tips on essay writing, an explanation of 'key procedure-related words' and what is expected of you when these terms are used. Clear advice and examples of how to insert quotations and citations into your work and reference them correctly.

Overall a very useful book to own.

invaluable prep for foundation degree
this book is full of useful info and tips to help a novice like me prep for a foundation degree i have found it both interesting and understandable.