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

ISBN-13: 9781138470835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Richard Palmer

Opis

Filled with tips, quizzes, and self-assessment exercises, this guide offers practical advice to 15-18 year old students trying to attain the top grades so they can move on to the university course of their choice.

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.