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How to be a student : 100 great ideas and practical habits for students everywhere / Sarah Moore and Maura Murphy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005.Description: 160 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0335216528(pbk)
Subject(s): Review: "Drawing from the real experiences of students, this book presents ideas and suggestions that you can use to enhance your time at university and to improve the quality of your learning life."--BOOK JACKET.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This exciting guide is perfect for all students, especially those new to Higher and Further Education.

How to be a student helps tackle the challenges and opportunities associated with life at university and college. 100 actionable ideas, strategies and tactics help you to make the most of your time, including: -Turning up to your lectures and what to do while you're there

-Knowing what plagiarism is and learning to develop belief in your own voice

-Making presentations with confidence and style

-Being more creative

-Spotting signs that you need to take a break

-Dealing with boredom

-Preventing small obstacles from becoming big problems

-Not letting money issues get in the way

-Remembering (people thought that) Einstein was a slow learner

-Treating your CV as a working document

And much more!

Drawing from the real experiences of students, this book presents ideas and suggestions that you can use to enhance your time at university and to improve the quality of your learning life.

"Drawing from the real experiences of students, this book presents ideas and suggestions that you can use to enhance your time at university and to improve the quality of your learning life."--BOOK JACKET.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • A. Insights and ideas for when you first arrive
  • 1 Remembering that humans are designed to learn
  • 2 Not letting money issues get in the way
  • 3 Being strict about part-time work
  • 4 Developing study rituals
  • 5 Having a calendar and an appointments diary
  • 6 Preparing to be disillusioned
  • 7 Turning up to your lectures
  • 8 Getting your learning abilities checked
  • 9 Getting help when you need it
  • 10 Preventing small obstacles from becoming big problems
  • 11 Being the first to admit when you don't understand
  • 12 Decorating your study space
  • 13 Buying a dictionary and a thesaurus
  • 14 Organising your study materials and learning resources
  • 15 Regular study snacks are better than occasional study binges
  • 16 Understanding boredom
  • 17 Developing your own personal coding system
  • 18 Phoning home
  • 19 Talking to others about your study tasks
  • 20 Setting better study goals
  • 21 Always having someone know where you are
  • 22 Having a social life that supports your learning
  • 23 Accepting that bureaucracy is just part of life
  • 24 Getting regular exercise
  • 25 Eating wisely
  • 26 Drinking
  • 27 Sleeping enough (but not too much)
  • 28 Breathing properly
  • 29 Posture and positioning
  • 30 Love, friendship and sexB. Developing your skills and self awareness as a higher education student
  • 31 Understanding the downside of being connected and availble
  • 32 Finding a zone between resignation and anger when you're staring problems in the face
  • 33 Not treating learning as a competition
  • 34 Recording your study habits
  • 35 Remembering that lecturers and tutors are human too
  • 36 Recognizing that information is not knowledge
  • 37 Realizing that students are not customers
  • 38 Spotting the signs that you need to take a break
  • 39 Watching out for study drift
  • 40 Knowing whether you're a natural introvert or a natural extravert and asjusting your study strategies accordingly
  • 41 Understanding and controlling knee-jerk reactions to stress
  • 42 Keeping a learning diary
  • 43 Knowing about clashes in habits, cultures and ways of doing things
  • 44 How you feel impacts on how your learn
  • 45 Remembering that people thought Einstein was a slow learner
  • 46 Benefiting from the fact that students are different from one anotherC. Gaining momentum: building confidence and motivation
  • 47 Just doing it
  • 48 Focusing on what you can do now
  • 49 Recognising that deadlines don't have to ruin your life
  • 50 Interrogating your lecturer and tutors
  • 51 Getting to know your librarians and lurking in the library
  • 52 Not being too hard on yourself
  • 53 Not being too easy on yourself
  • 54 Being brave
  • 55 Using all of your brain
  • 56 Being more creative
  • 57 Playing
  • 58 Rewarding and celebrating when things go right
  • 59 Understanding different kinds of reaction to feedback
  • 60 Getting negative feedback
  • 61 Getting positive feedback
  • 62 Choosing the feedback you want
  • 63 Making presentations
  • 64 Not comparing yourself to others
  • 65 Checking rumours before acting on them
  • 66 Playing to your strengths
  • 67 Hoping and persisting
  • 68 Controlling worry
  • 69 Realising that you'll never be able to keep everyone happyD: Being the best you can be: persistence and enhancement strategies
  • 70 Knowing that it's impossible to be perfect but it's always possible to improve
  • 71 Paying attention to grammar and punctuation
  • 72 Keeping track of your information sources
  • 73 Knowing what plagiarism is
  • 74 Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler
  • 75 Learning the beauty of summaries
  • 76 Having some time every day when you're doing nothing at all
  • 77 Organising study retreats
  • 78 Using listening skills to help you learn better
  • 79 Not jumping to conclusions
  • 80 Reading
  • 81 Recognising the importance of memorizing
  • 82 Learning to use memory techni

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