Books in the Sage Study Skills Series series

`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)

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.

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.

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.

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