How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree

ISBN-13: 9781403906403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Lucinda Becker

Opis

How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree is a ground-breaking book, offering a no-nonsense approach to all areas of undergraduate life, including maximizing learning opportunities, handling mathematics and coping with laboratory work. How to succeed in mastering time and finances is covered, as are examination techniques. It also discusses the wider aspects of university life and helps students to grasp each opportunity available to them. The book concludes with a chapter on how to break into your chosen career.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Getting Started.- Maximising Your Learning Opportunities.- Making the Most of Your Time.- Working Your Options.- Beyond the Studying.- What if Things Go Wrong?.- Examinations and Postgraduate Options.- Life After Your Degree.- Appendices.

O autorze

LUCINDA BECKER is an Associate Professor at the University of Reading within Arts and Humanities. She is also a professional trainer, developing and delivering courses in communication, presentation, management techniques and job-searching skills. She is the author of The Mature Student's Handbook, 14 Days to Exam Success and co-author of Writing for Engineers and Presentation Skills for Students (with Joan van Emden).

DAVID PRICE is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Chartered Chemist and a Visiting Research Fellow at Reading University. He is an L.E.A. school governor and gives lectures to sixth formers, tutors, undergraduates and postgraduates and presents his research at international conferences.