Making the Grade : A Guide to Study and Success

A core text for first-year university students enrolled in a student success course or workshop; this text is also a useful reference guide for undergraduates across faculties and disciplines.

Filled with practical techniques for today's student, Making the Grade: A Guide to Study and Success is an insightful, easy-to-use guide that will help students develop the skills they need to excel at the university level. With an emphasis on skill-building in core areas such as time management, reading strategically, and effective note-taking, this text provides an introduction to university life, along with strategies for effective note-taking, active listening, productive group work, and much more. Authored by an international team whose members have been working in the field since 1993, Making the Grade: A Guide to Study and Success has been classroom-tested in Australia, where it has remained the top-selling text of its kind since 1997. Now thoroughly updated for the Canadian market, this excellent skills-oriented text includes exercises that allow students to practise newly acquired strategies such as back-planning, chunking, and the Cornell note-taking system. Designed for today's student, Making the Grade reflects the changing reality of Canadian classrooms with sixteen chapters that incorporate coverage of new technology such as course blogs, podcasts, and online class discussion boards, as well as specific advice for students with disabilities and students for whom English is an additional language.

Dianne Bochner worked for many years in the English department at Flinders University, where she taught professional writing and communication skills as well as literary studies.

Carol Dungey is library site manager, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, South Australia, and former campus librarian at the University of South Australia.

Iain Hay is Australian Learning and Teaching Council discipline scholar for the arts, social sciences, and humanities and professor of geography at Flinders University, South Australia.

Nellie Perret is a learning skills counsellor and educator at the Academic Success Centre on the St George campus of the University of Toronto. She also teaches courses in the Millie Rotman Shime Academic Bridging Program for mature students through Woodsworth College at the University of Toronto.