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Making the grade : a guide to study and success  Cover Image Book Book

Making the grade : a guide to study and success

Bochner, Dianne. (Added Author). Dungey, Carol. (Added Author). Hay, Iain. (Added Author).

Summary: Filled with practical strategies for today's student, Making the Grade: A Guide to Study and Success is an insightful, easy-to-use guide that will help readers develop the skills they need to excel at the university level. Classroom-tested and authored by an international team whose members have been working in the field since 1993, this text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the changing reality of the Canadian classroom, with 16 chapters that incorporate new technology such as course blogs, podcasts, and online class discussion boards, as well as specific advice for students with learning disabilities and those for whom English is an additional language.

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  • ISBN: 9780195443509
  • ISBN: 0195443500
  • Physical Description: print
    xx, 331 p. : ill. (some col.), forms ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Canadian ed.
  • Publisher: Don Mills, ON : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Formatted Contents Note: Part 1: Successful study -- Starting out: University study and you -- Clocking in: Managing your time -- Reading up: Strategic reading -- Thinking through: Critical thinking -- Teaming up: Working in groups -- Facing up: Coping with tests and exams -- Finding out: Becoming well informed -- Part 2: Successful communication -- Writing up: Essay writing -- Arguing through: Preparing and presenting written argument -- Stating facts: Writing research reports and laboratory reports -- Making sense: Writing annotated bibliographies, summaries, and reviews -- Writing well: Language and sentence structure -- Dotting "i"s: Using punctuation correctly -- Owning up: Acknowledging sources -- Speaking out: Public speaking -- Showing off: Communicating with figures and tables.
Subject: Study skills
Communication in education
Academic writing
Academic achievement
Report writing
Educational technology
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
College students
Topic Heading: Post-secondary.
University.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Thompson Campus Library LB 2395 .M3899 2012 (Text) 58500000440289 Stacks Volume hold Available -
UCN/Norway House Public Library LB 2395 .M3899 2012 (Text) 58500000375956 Stacks Volume hold Available -

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