Study and learning skills: general

This is the definitive guide to successful study as an international postgraduate student.

Help your students develop a critical mindset with this practical guide.

This is the leading guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism, covering everything from understanding plagiarism and identifying sources to setting out quotations and creating a reference list.

This practical guide takes undergraduate students step-by-step through the process of completing a dissertation, from the initial stages of generating original ideas and planning the project through to writing their first draft and critically reviewing their own work.

This practical guide will help scientific researchers navigate the core stages of their PhD writing journey, from refining their research question to structuring, editing and proofreading their thesis.

This essential guide takes students through the planning for each stage of their dissertation, from hatching an idea to handing in their finished project.

This book fundamentally challenges the way in which PhDs are currently pursued.

This concise and practical guide takes students step-by-step through the writing process, and covers core aspects of academic writing, from understanding the task and researching the topic through to composing a draft, editing copy and responding to feedback.

Fully revised for the third edition, this popular text provides an advanced yet accessible introduction to the tools, terminology and research perspectives that students need to know in order to engage in academic debate and successfully complete research-based assignments.

This friendly and concise guide will help students to understand what stress is, why they experience it and how they can manage it.

This book is full of practical advice and useful examples to help students and engineers write clearly, accurately and impressively.

Full of practical advice and visual examples, this compact book provides learners with the tools and knowledge to work with their dyslexia.

This book will equip readers with all the skills needed to write convincing and polished assignments in biomedical sciences.

This concise and practical text will equip students with the effective reading strategies they need when preparing for their university assessments.

This concise and accessible guide takes referencing apart and rebuilds it in a step-by-step, easy-to-understand and student-centred way.

Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management is the most comprehensive guide on how to do research of and in project management.

Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management is the most comprehensive guide on how to do research of and in project management.

The pressure on contact time with students and the results required from it are constantly increasing - which means that tutors have to be more and more creative in how they approach their work.

The pressure on contact time with students and the results required from it are constantly increasing - which means that tutors have to be more and more creative in how they approach their work.

Blended learning provides the flexibility to accommodate the varied requirements of pedagogies, disciplines and levels of course, together with the needs of a wide variety of learners.

Blended learning provides the flexibility to accommodate the varied requirements of pedagogies, disciplines and levels of course, together with the needs of a wide variety of learners.

One of the major intangible benefits associated with the postgraduate research experience is precisely that: the experience.

One of the major intangible benefits associated with the postgraduate research experience is precisely that: the experience.

Now in its second edition, this internationally best-selling book has been revised and updated.

In much of the developed world, learning is synonymous with the formal, structured processes that involve teachers, lecturers or trainers.

In much of the developed world, learning is synonymous with the formal, structured processes that involve teachers, lecturers or trainers.

Now in its second edition, this internationally best-selling book has been revised and updated.

Technology has become a necessary and everyday part of studying.

Technology has become a necessary and everyday part of studying.

There is consistent pressure on all academics to publish, publish, publish.

There is consistent pressure on all academics to publish, publish, publish.

The third edition of this popular book has been extensively revised to reflect the changes that have affected student research in higher education in recent years.

The third edition of this popular book has been extensively revised to reflect the changes that have affected student research in higher education in recent years.

Skills in learning and studying are vital to ensure success in higher education study, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level, in university, college or in the workplace.

Skills in learning and studying are vital to ensure success in higher education study, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level, in university, college or in the workplace.

This book gives advice on writing and successful publication following completion of the research project and features real-life case studies and interviews throughout.

Writing high-quality papers suitable for publication within international scientific journals is now an essential skill for all early-career researchers; their career progression and the reputation of the department in which they work depends upon it.

Writing high-quality papers suitable for publication within international scientific journals is now an essential skill for all early-career researchers; their career progression and the reputation of the department in which they work depends upon it.

Now that you are approaching the final stages of your degree, have you ever wondered how you're going to cope with writing your dissertation?

Now that you are approaching the final stages of your degree, have you ever wondered how you're going to cope with writing your dissertation?

This book gives advice on writing and successful publication following completion of the research project and features real-life case studies and interviews throughout.

The most useful tool for reviewing mathematical methods for business and economics classes-now with more contentSchaum's Outline of Mathematical Methods for Business, Economics and Finance, Second Edition is the go-to study guide for students enrolled in business and economics courses that require a variety of mathematical skills.

Now in its fifth edition, Academic Writing helps international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses.

Now in its fifth edition, Academic Writing helps international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses.

Meet the creative minds shaping our world in Chief Design Officers At Work, the captivating new addition to the acclaimed At Work series from Apress.

First published in 1933, experienced teachers describe the transition in a large infant school from formal teaching to project work and illustrate the methods by which children, free to play singly or in groups, gain general education and rapidly acquire skill in the three R's.

First published in 1933, experienced teachers describe the transition in a large infant school from formal teaching to project work and illustrate the methods by which children, free to play singly or in groups, gain general education and rapidly acquire skill in the three R's.

Martin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century led to fundamental shifts in American government policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift in the treatment of African Americans.

Robert Lucas is known among economists as one of the most influential macroeconomists of recent times - a reputation founded in no small part on the critical thinking skills displayed in his seminal 1990 paper 'Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

American political theorist Robert Dahl's 1961 work of political theory exhibits deep levels of creative thinking.