Donald Currie
Pages: 184 Published: February 2005
ISBN: 1843980649
ISBN13: 9781843980643
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Description
A practical guide to help students prepare, write and complete assignments, dissertations and management reports. This text looks at the skills required to produce successful documents, how to gain these skills and how and when to use them.
The text takes a straight forward, hands-on approach that students can use as an ongoing tool to aid their study and to support them when working on their course. It also offers guidance on getting the best from lectures, tutorials, seminars, structured learning sessions and group work.
Appropriate exercises, case studies and self-test questions are provided throughout the text to encourage students to increase their experience of tackling organisation-based problems, addressing issues, increasing their academic understanding and monitoring their progress.
Contents
Getting Started
Essays and Assignments
Approaching the Task
Searching for Relevant Literature
Analysing, Drafting and Refining Data
Writing up a Critical Review
Collecting Primary Data
Drafting Findings and Conclusions
Writing it All Up
Getting the Best From Lectures and Working with Others
Problem Solving, Creativity and Innovation
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Research.
Related resources
A sample chapter of this publication is available:
Chapter 8 Developing and Applying Study Skills
About the author(s)
Donald Currie
The late Donald Currie worked as a Personnel Officer for over 15 years before joining the Southampton Institute - University College, as a Lecturer in Personnel Management.
In 1990 he was appointed to Fellow in Human Resource Management and for over 10 years led the CIPD Professional Education Scheme.
Since retiring, in 1995, Donald worked as a Consultant to the Southampton Business School, and ran the CIPD-CPP Course, before his death in 2006.
Customer review
'This is a lovely book, which is a must for all students following a business studies degree or a professional qualification such as the CIPD PDS qualification. It is written in a very clear, student-friendly way with lots of activities and exercises that are designed to engage the student and ensure that learning becomes an active process and that the student starts to learn how to learn. There is a great deal of useful advice about study skills which is designed to support students who are either new to studying in a university, or to refresh and update the skills of those who have been studying for some years.'
Caroline Hook
Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management
Huddersfield University Business School
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