Pete Greasley

Doing Essays and Assignments (eBook, ePUB)

Essential Tips for Students

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An insider's guide to what university tutors really want from an essay or assignment, this witty guide gives you practical tips and techniques on how to craft the perfect assignment and achieve the best grades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473966321
• Artikelnr.: 45353460

Autorenporträt

Before his retirement, Pete Greasley was a Teaching Fellow in the Division of Health Research at Lancaster University. He has been marking student assignments for more years than he would care to remember, and not particularly enjoying it. He has conducted research and published academic articles in psychology, sociology, health, and education, and has also written an introductory book on quantitative data analysis.

His research and teaching interests include psychological and social issues relating to health, sceptical inquiry relating to pseudo-science and the paranormal, and how to help students avoid common mistakes when writing their assignments. Prior to retiring, he spent much of his time supervising trainee clinical psychologists doing their research projects at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

An insight into the marking process
How to impress and how to distress markers
Before you start, some rules of the game
Getting started . . . and getting finished
Reading and researching the literature
Introductions, conclusions, and structure
What was the question again?
Critical analysis, perspective and argument
The greatest source of 'marker distress': language, grammar and expression
Referencing - an academic fetish for the anally retentive?
Plagiarism
How not to present graphs and charts
Presenting your assignment: first impressions count
Feedback and feed-forward
Writing research/project reports
Doing a Systematic Literature Review
Presentation: A fate worse than death?
Group project work (or 'hell is other people')

Rezensionen

This book is a no-nonsense, unique proposition for students who want to take an extra effort to improve their grades. It clearly demonstrates how to impress markers by demonstrating some crucial university-level skills, or what essay-writing has to do with eating an elephant. If you are a student or a parent of a student, this book is a small investment which can bring tangible results!'
Kamil Zwolski 20160429