Full Description
The Communication Skills Guidebook is a practical guide for students, full of the essential communication and study skills that will help them to do well at university. Covering all the skills that will be used across a degree, the book covers many useful topics including researching, writing, referencing, presentation skills, public speaking and succeeding in exams.
Students can read the book from front to back, look up particular topics as they need to, or use just one section they find useful. Each chapter is self-contained and deals with a different aspect of the skills necessary for both successful university learning and communication, assisting students to navigate through successful study at university.
Contents
1. FINDING OUT: RESEARCHING; 2. WRITING UP: ESSAY WRITING; 3. ARGUING THROUGH: WRITTEN ARGUMENT; 4. STATING FACTS: PRESENTING RESEARCH FINDINGS; 5. WRITING WELL: LANGUAGE, SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS; 6. DOTTING 'I'S: USING PUNCTUATION CORRECTLY; 7. OWNING UP: REFERENCING; 8. SPEAKING OUT: PUBLIC SPEAKING; 9. TEAMING UP: WORKING IN GROUPS; 10. FACING UP: SUCCEEDING IN EXAMS
