Bücher der Reihe Sage Study Skills Series

A guide to help undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences master different critique methods.

The complete guide to doing a literature search and review also contains a wealth of features to calm students overwhelmed at the prospect of doing their dissertation or thesis

The book describes the skills needed for success in moving from being a student to becoming an academic or professional social scientist.

An invaluable companion for students studying or about to study criminology. Maintaining its clear style and comprehensive coverage of core skills, the book includes a much needed new chapter on plagiarism, and has been updated with additional information on e-resources and the varying educational levels within a degree.

This book brings a wide range of themes under one cover: the supervision process, writing, the viva, the examination of written and oral 'performance' and the aftermath, including publishing.

This book is a user-friendly, accessible study skills guide designed to support the course materials, subject content and approaches students will encounter.

By concentrating on the nature of terminology used in research, this book helps students better understand, and learn how to use, the specialist vocabulary of educational and social science research.

This book will help social science students with successful completion of their dissertation. A truly practical, step-by-step guide which will take students through the whole process from start to finish.

This book will help students where English is their additional language develop all the necessary study skills needed to achieve success at university

Nicholas Walliman's writing style is well loved and widely read. In this book the authors practically guide health and social care students through the process of doing a dissertation and how to achieve success with such a project.

Provides students with all the skills required for academic study at undergraduate degree level, and then shows them how to develop, transfer and apply these skills to multiple contexts within clinical practice.

Helps you develop the skills and techniques you need for studying throughout your nursing training. This book supports you to face everyday challenges like essay writing, doing assignments, and taking exams, with confidence.

Arranged in easily followed sections enlivened with checklists, style variations, examples and reflection points, this book has relevance to the social sciences, arts, humanities, natural and applied sciences and law. It is suitable for new and experienced researchers alike.

Addresses each phase of a research project in the simultaneous order in which researchers often undertake them. From how to write great essays and succeeding at university, to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research, this book helps you get the best from your time at university.

Offers you with the basic skills required to enter those first lectures, tutorials, lab-sessions and assessments with confidence. This book offers: advice; portfolio sections at the end of chapter; an emphasis on helping you to get started and build up your confidence; and, integration of theory (in small doses) with practice.

Provides an introduction to the research process and the thinking and learning skills needed to successfully complete postgraduate research. This book offers: guidance on the best way to approach research; a focus on finding research topics and developing them in to dissertations; and essential help in forging critical reading skills.

Any student can improve their learning in higher education if they want to. This guide is to help you along this route, not by claiming there is only one right way to do things but by building awareness of different approaches, attitudes, and strategies.

`An essential easy-to-use guide to geography... unique in providing not only advice but also activity based guidance to both potential and current geography undergraduates... an all encompassing text which offers a fresh and original outlook on geography at degree level' Lorraine Craig, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)

This is a book for tutors, lecturers and teachers in further and higher education, who need to teach their students how to study, learn and communicate effectively.

A practical and comprehensive guide to researching, preparing and writing a dissertation at Masters level.

Offers guidance and discussion on all aspects of successful doctoral work. This book includes advice on every stage in the process of completing a doctorate, from helping you to engage in critical reflection to better understand your own research biases, to useful guidelines on preparing for, and surviving, the viva.

Whether embarking on a pre-degree foundation course or a postgraduate programme, this book will help students manage all the challenging aspects of studying through the medium of another language, in a new and different environment.

the definitive guide to successfully publishing social science research, securing a job, gaining tenure, surviving research assessment exercises, and obtaining promotion.

An essential source of support and guidance for undergraduate students doing work placements or summer internships as part of their degree course

Helping you to meet a range of study skills, this book tells you how to get the most from your lectures, exam preparation and project development, right through to contemplating and investigating future career options.

In combining a critical, philosophical approach with an expertly selected body of practical examples, the Second Edition of Chris Hart's landmark text provides both the intellectual understanding and the technical skills required to produce sophisticated, robust literature reviews of the very highest standard.