Getting Straight 'A's: A Student's Guide to Success

ISBN-13: 9780415356237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 184 str.

Richard Palmer

Opis

Packed full of invaluable and practical advice, tips, quizzes and self-assessment exercises for fifteen to eighteen year olds, this guide, written with the keenest and most ambitious students in mind, will help you to maximise your academic potenitial and achieve the results you need. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this study guide will help you to:

• assess your own strengths and weaknesses
• make the best use of available resources
• effectively manage your time and prioritise your workload
• develop essay-writing and note-taking skills
• excel in exams and coursework.

Considered a natural companion to the author's highly successful Brain Train, this book maximises academic potential both in coursework and exams amongst GCSE and AS/A-level students, effectively, simply, and without exhausting and counter-productive effort.

Spis treści

Part 1: Naming It  1. Preliminary: Why Real Achievers Don’t Do Drugs  2. Situation Report  3. The Importance of the Pleasure Principle  4. Seductive Stupidities: Those ‘S’ Words Revisited  5. Conclusion  Part 2: Using It  6. Arming Yourself  7. Knowing Yourself  8. Advancing Yourself  Part 3: Sorting It  9. Respecting the Obvious  10. Going Beyond the Obvious  11. Conclusion  Part 4: Nailing It  12. What is Knowledge?  13. What Types of Knowledge Are There?  14. Common Fallacies / Disreputable or Specious Arguing  15. Justifying Your Thinking (1): Good Reasons  16. Justifying Your Thinking (2): Good Instincts  17. Conclusion  Part 5: Doing It  18. Preliminary  19. Eyes Right: Speed-Reading  20. Eyes Wrong: Screen-Reading  21. Note-Taking: Mini-Lecture Noting Exercise  22. Writing  Part 6: Making It  23. Preliminary  24. Attitudes (1): Examiners – Monsters, Robots or Humans?  25. Attitudes (2): Priming Yourself  26. Revision and Review  27. In the Exam Hall  28. Conclusion 

O autorze

Richard Palmer is Head of English at Bedford School. His other Routledge titles include The Good Grammar Guide, and Write in Style.