Developing and Applying Study Skills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843980649 ISBN 13: 9781843980643

Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, 2008

Are your students struggling for guidance on how to approach the coursework elements of their course? This text is a practical guide to help students prepare for, work on and complete assignments, dissertations and management reports, how to gain these skills, and when and how to apply them. Suitable for students on any business, HRM or professional programme, including the CIPD qualification, the text takes a straightforward, hands-on approach which students can use as an ongoing tool to help their study and to support them when doing coursework. It also offers guidance on getting the best from lectures, tutorials, seminars, structured learning sessions and group work. Appropriate exercises, case studies and self-test questions are provided throughout the text to encourage students to increase their experience of tackling organisation-based problems, helping them to achieve success with their project.

About the Author:

Donald Currie worked as a personnel officer for over 15 years before joining Southampton Institute as a lecturer in Personnel Management. For over 10 years he led the CIPD Professional Education Scheme and since retiring, in 1995, Donald has worked as a consultant to the Southampton Business School, and has been running the CIPD-CPP Course.

Review:

"This is a lovely book, which is a must for all students following a business studies degree or a professional qualification such as the CIPD PDS qualification. It is written in a very clear, student-friendly way with lots of activities and exercises that are designed to engage the student and ensure that learning becomes an active process and that the student starts to learn how to learn. There is a great deal of useful advice about study skills which is designed to support students who are either new to studying in a university, or to refresh and update the skills of those who have been studying for some years." Caroline Hook, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Huddersfield University Business School."