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Contents Acknowledgements vi Foreword vii Introducing The Study Skills Handbook 1
A. Self-efficacy: Managing your Success as a Student
7
1. Success as a student: Take charge of your success
9
2. Gaining the most from your course: Engage. Enjoy. Excel.
29
3. Employability and preparing for your future
47
4. Successful study: Intelligence, strategy and personalised learning
63
5. The C·R·E·A·M strategy for learning
89
6. Time management as a student
123
7. Managing stress and well-being
151
B. Academic, People and Task Management Skills
169
8. Working with others: Collaborative study
171
9. Developing cultural competence: Learning in diverse and international contexts
197
10. Effective reading and note-making
213
11. Researching and managing information for study
233
12. Critical thinking
253
13. Writing at university level
273
14. Developing your academic writing
301
15. Writing essays
319
16. Managing assignments: Research projects, reports, case studies and dissertations
345
17. Devising your revision and exam strategy
373
18. Memory
389
Appendix: Further resources
405
Answers to activities
407
References and bibliography
413
Index 421 Notes 429
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