The Study Skills Handbook (Palgrave Study Skills)

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module title, the date, the title of the lecture, and the lecturer. • Make sure you can read your notes. • Only use one side of the paper. This makes it easier to organise your notes for There are two approaches to academic writing. The first, or traditional, approach is to use a serious and formal impersonal tone. It involves presenting different ideas and the evidence to support them. This means not writing in the first person (not using ‘my’, ‘I’, ‘we’) and presenting an objective and depersonalised approach. You should always use language that is clear, concise, and unambiguous. One method of identifying an appropriate style is to look at textbooks recommended by your tutors. high marks are those who study relevant information sources, think critically about their findings, discuss and debate them, and then construct their own valid perspective. The first section in this chapter explains the different types of learning and teaching activities within the school, and what you can expect in them. Study Advice Service can also help with time planning and meeting deadlines, and they have a leaflet on this topic. It is available at www.hull.ac.uk/studyadvice.

Making good notes During your university career you will make notes from a variety of sources, including lectures, books, and the Internet. Making good notes is about identifying and selecting relevant information. with the other team members this can result in a disjointed presentation that would appear to the audience in exactly the way in which it had been prepared.When it is time for questions handle them with confidence. If you do not know the answer to any question then be honest and say that you will find out. When you want to close the question session then signal this to your audience by saying ‘We have time for one more question.’

Armstrong, Gary and Kotler, Philip, (1999), Marketing: An Introduction, 5th edn, New Jersey, Prentice Hall. from your findings, do your findings prove or disprove your hypothesis?) • Date / Signature • Appendix • Bibliographydetail Relate narrate or tell, show the connections between things Review make a survey of, examine the subject carefully State write briefly and clearly the main points of Summarise give a concise account of the main points omitting detail Dupont has found that it can take as many as three thousand raw ideas to produce just two winning commercial products, and pharmaceuticals companies may require six thousand to eight thousand starting ideas for every successful commercial new product” (Armstrong and Kotler, 1999, 263).

James is a first-year full-time undergraduate student. He has a part-time job (three evenings per week) and likes to play football at least twice a week.

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Within the Gillette company, out of every forty-five carefully developed new-product ideas, three make it into the development stage but “only one eventually reaches the marketplace” (Armstrong and Kotler, 1999, 263). include a few short quotations to support your findings and these also demonstrate your use of different information sources. Providing relevant examples that illustrate the points you make can bring your writing to life and show that you understand your material.

the characteristics of Differentiate/distinguish explain the differences between Discuss give reasons for and against, examine by argument, Chapter 5: Making Notes Introduction .................................................................................................... 31 Making good notes .......................................................................................... 32 Working with others ........................................................................................ 35 Referencing your notes and plagiarism .......................................................... 35 Closing comments ........................................................................................... 36

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Presentation skills are important as presentations are frequently used in the workplace as a means of disseminating information and influencing people. The way in which you communicate by speaking will determine how successful you will be during your working life. Nowadays many interviews involve a formal presentation. Therefore, it is imperative that you enhance and develop your presentation skills in readiness for future employment or progression into senior posts when the stakes will be much higher. Information about Information skills courses is available at www.hull.ac.uk/lib/infoskills/courses.html. The reasons why the presentation is important or relevant to the audience • The actual topic – this may be broken down into a number of sub topics • Implications for practice (if appropriate) • Summary • Conclusions • Thank the audience for listening Analyse the task Before you start any piece of written work you should ask yourself the following questions. • What is its purpose? • Who is it for? • What are my aims? • Which form of writing will best accomplish these aims? • What structure will best suit the purpose and aims of this piece of writing? How do I reference information from the Internet? The Internet is a source of two different kinds of information: firstly, it is used to distribute information that has previously been published in another source; and secondly, it is used to disseminate information that is only available on the Internet. It is very important that you take the trouble to find the proper reference for materials that have been obtained through the Internet. The first case, i.e. material that has been published elsewhere, is shown in the following two examples: