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Score More: Essential Academic Skills for Tertiary Education, 1st Edition | AU/NZ

Paul Adams, Victoria Trembath

  • Copyright 2007
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Score More: Essential Academic Skills for Tertiary Education 1st Edition by Paul Adams/Victoria Trembath
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Overview

Why do some tertiary education students obtain better marks and grades than others? Score More provides many of the answers, enabling students to produce better assignments, gain higher marks, and ultimately complete their qualifications easier and faster.

Score More covers these five essential academic areas:

• Setting yourself up for success

• Finding, evaluating and recording information

• Academic writing

• Academic conventions

• Academic forms.

Score More is an essential text for tertiary education students. It is highly recommended for anyone who wants to know more about how to do well in their studies.

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Meet the Authors

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Paul Adams

Paul Adams is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education at the College of Education, Massey University. His research interests lie in policy studies, and he teaches professional studies papers in pre-service teacher education and in the BA, Bed and Med programmes. He is the co-editor (with Dr Roger Openshaw) of the education text Education and Society y in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Introduction to the Social and Political Contexts of Education (2000); co-editor (with Dr Heather Ryan) of Learning to Reading in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Collaboration between Early Childhood Teachers, Families and Schools (2002); and co-author (with Judy Hamer) of The New Zealand Early Childhood Literacy Handbook (2003). His qualifications are in the areas of sociology, special education, educational psychology and music.

Victoria Trembath

Victoria is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She works as a Learning Advisor for the Student Learning Centre and is based ar the Faculty of Education. She has recently completed a major research project: Finally it was all too much: Reasons for leaving initial teacher education, which found that students leave their studies because of the stress that arises from a combination of factors related to both the study of itself and their other life roles. Her broad research interest include the student experience of tertiary education (particularly teacher education), learning, the field of learning advising and research methodology.

Table of Contents

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Section One: Setting Yourself Up For Success
1. Becoming a life-long learner
2. Getting your life organised for study
3. Getting your assignment load under control
4. Learning effectively as an adult
5. Staying motivated throughout your studies
6. Staying healthy and dealing with stress
7. Learning to work collaboratively
8. Learning your subject in English

Section Two: Finding, Evaluating and Recording Information
9. Using an academic library
10. Using library databases
11. Using academic readings strategically
12. Making sense of academic text
13. Making sense of statistical data
14. Becoming an effective note-taker

Section Three: Improving Your Academic Writing
15. The academic genre
16. Structuring and organising your ideas
17. How to write clearly
18. Improving your grammar
19. Improving your punctuation
20. Improving your spelling
21. Revising and editing your work

Section Four: Learning About Academic Conventions
22. Learning about academic conventions
23. Learning about citations
24. Learning about quotations
25. Learning about references

Section Five: Core Academic Forms
26. Approaching your assignment topics
27. How to write an essay
28. How to write a literature review
29. How to write a report
30. How to write a journal article
31. How to present a poster
32. How to write an annotated bibliography
33. How to write a book review
34. How to prepare for oral presentations
35. How to prepare for examinations and tests
36. How to get published

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  • ISBN-10: 0170133052
  • ISBN-13: 9780170133050
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