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How to Succeed in Your Social Science Degree
- Hilary Arksey - University of York, UK
- David Harris - College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth
Series:
SAGE Study Skills Series
SAGE Study Skills Series
May 2007 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
"This book takes a clear approach to the challenges of university life, offers realistic advice, and demonstrates how to acquire transferable skills for future employment. Issues examined include how to maximize your academic performance, develop powers of expression, analyze data, write a dissertation, and identify what employers want."
—ABSTRACTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENVIRONMENT
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. Topics covered include:
—ABSTRACTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENVIRONMENT
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. Topics covered include:
" What employers want;
" How educational performance can be maximized;
" How to maximise powers of expression;
" How to analyze data;
" What to do and avoid doing in writing a dissertation.
Written in an engaging and non-nonsense style, by experienced teachers, the book offers students the perfect one stop guide to making their university study experience count.
PART ONE: UNIVERSITY LIFE AND EMPLOYABILITY
Starting Off
How Students See It
What Do Tutors Want?
What Employers Want
PART TWO: MAXIMIZING YOUR PERFORMANCE
Writing Skills
Verbal Skills
Starting Your Dissertation
Collecting the Data
Data Analysis and Writing up a Dissertation
Pulling It All Together