Books in the Sage Study Skills Series series

In combining a critical, philosophical approach with an expertly selected body of practical examples, the Second Edition of Chris Hart's landmark text provides both the intellectual understanding and the technical skills required to produce sophisticated, robust literature reviews of the very highest standard.

The complete guide to doing a literature search and review also contains a wealth of features to calm students overwhelmed at the prospect of doing their dissertation or thesis

An invaluable companion for students studying or about to study criminology. Maintaining its clear style and comprehensive coverage of core skills, the book includes a much needed new chapter on plagiarism, and has been updated with additional information on e-resources and the varying educational levels within a degree.

This book brings a wide range of themes under one cover: the supervision process, writing, the viva, the examination of written and oral 'performance' and the aftermath, including publishing.

This book is a user-friendly, accessible study skills guide designed to support the course materials, subject content and approaches students will encounter.

By concentrating on the nature of terminology used in research, this book helps students better understand, and learn how to use, the specialist vocabulary of educational and social science research.

A well written, easy to navigate and comprehensive guide to how to develop core skills and to make the most of one's abilities in written work.

This excellent study skills book arms social work students with all the essential knowledge they will need to succeed in qualifying and becoming a practitioner

This book will help social science students with successful completion of their dissertation. A truly practical, step-by-step guide which will take students through the whole process from start to finish.

Nicholas Walliman's writing style is well loved and widely read. In this book the authors practically guide health and social care students through the process of doing a dissertation and how to achieve success with such a project.

An essential source of support and guidance for undergraduate students doing work placements or summer internships as part of their degree course

This book will help students where English is their additional language develop all the necessary study skills needed to achieve success at university

How do you survive the university experience? What do tutors want? How can you express yourself best in tutorials, seminars, essays and exams? This book takes a clear-eyed approach to the challenges of university life, offers realistic advice and demonstrates how to acquire transferable skills with a view to future employability.

Helps you develop the skills and techniques you need for studying throughout your nursing training. This book supports you to face everyday challenges like essay writing, doing assignments, and taking exams, with confidence.

This book gives students focussed and practical advice on how to deal with stress in a 3 tiered approach:1. Guidance on how to avoid getting in to stressful situations in the first place2. Strategies for handling stress3. Positive learning and learning on from stress to achieve success.

Provides students with all the skills required for academic study at undergraduate degree level, and then shows them how to develop, transfer and apply these skills to multiple contexts within clinical practice.

This book provides a stimulating introduction to study skills for success at undergraduate level.

Offers you with the basic skills required to enter those first lectures, tutorials, lab-sessions and assessments with confidence. This book offers: advice; portfolio sections at the end of chapter; an emphasis on helping you to get started and build up your confidence; and, integration of theory (in small doses) with practice.

Helping you to meet a range of study skills, this book tells you how to get the most from your lectures, exam preparation and project development, right through to contemplating and investigating future career options.

Addresses each phase of a research project in the simultaneous order in which researchers often undertake them. From how to write great essays and succeeding at university, to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research, this book helps you get the best from your time at university.

Doing well in exams at university is crucial to gaining a good degree. From the author of Studying at University, this book equips students with all the tools they need to optimise their performance in exams. Packed with examples and practical exercises, it explains key strategies for learning and revision.

This is a book for tutors, lecturers and teachers in further and higher education, who need to teach their students how to study, learn and communicate effectively.

Provides an introduction to the research process and the thinking and learning skills needed to successfully complete postgraduate research. This book offers: guidance on the best way to approach research; a focus on finding research topics and developing them in to dissertations; and essential help in forging critical reading skills.

Arranged in easily followed sections enlivened with checklists, style variations, examples and reflection points, this book has relevance to the social sciences, arts, humanities, natural and applied sciences and law. It is suitable for new and experienced researchers alike.

A guide to help undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences master different critique methods.

Any student can improve their learning in higher education if they want to. This guide is to help you along this route, not by claiming there is only one right way to do things but by building awareness of different approaches, attitudes, and strategies.

`An essential easy-to-use guide to geography... unique in providing not only advice but also activity based guidance to both potential and current geography undergraduates... an all encompassing text which offers a fresh and original outlook on geography at degree level' Lorraine Craig, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)

Offers guidance and discussion on all aspects of successful doctoral work. This book includes advice on every stage in the process of completing a doctorate, from helping you to engage in critical reflection to better understand your own research biases, to useful guidelines on preparing for, and surviving, the viva.

A practical and comprehensive guide to researching, preparing and writing a dissertation at Masters level.

Whether embarking on a pre-degree foundation course or a postgraduate programme, this book will help students manage all the challenging aspects of studying through the medium of another language, in a new and different environment.