How to succeed in your social science degree / Hilary Arksey and David Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arksey, Hilary.

Series:

Sage study skills

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain.

Social sciences.

College student orientation--Great Britain.

College student orientation.

Universities and colleges--Great Britain.

Universities and colleges.

Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher).

Great Britain.

Success.

Physical Description:

ix, 243 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Los Angeles : SAGE, 2007.

Summary:

This book takes a clear-eyed approach to the challenges of university life, offers realistic advice and demonstrates how to acquire transferable skills with a view to future employability. All of the basics are here: how to maximize your academic performance, how to develop powers of expression, how to analyze data, what to do and what to avoid when writing a dissertation, what to do to make sure that university life brings the best employment prospects, how to acquire the skills and performance that tutors value, how to know what employers want. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style by experienced teachers, this book offers students the perfect one-stop guide to making their university study experience count.

Contents:

Part 1 University Life and Employability 9

1 Starting Off 11

2 How Students See It 35

3 What Do Tutors Want? 55

4 What Do Employers Want? 81

Part 2 Maximizing Your Performance 99

5 Writing Skills 101

6 Verbal Skills 134

7 Starting Your Dissertation 150

8 Collecting the Data 165

9 Data Analysis and Writing Up a Dissertation 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412902250

1412902258

1412902266

9781412902267

OCLC:

77257437