Published February 2008
“Excellent… the best study skills book around” – Dr P Starie, Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty, University of Portsmouth
'Brilliant book - essential for any undergraduate.'
- Jenny Fisher, Division of Psychology and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
'This book raises the standard of the study skills guide to new levels of excellence...one of the best (if not the best) study skills books on the market. Very highly recommended!'
- Mr Francis J. Dempsey, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
The only study skills book to cover all the core skills has been revised and updated throughout. This number one, best-selling text introduces higher level study skills and helps students develop a deeper understanding of the learning process itself. The third edition includes new chapters on e-learning and numeracy, and remains easy to read, with plenty of practical and interesting activities to complete.
Published November 2006
The Exam Skills Handbook provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It provides practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies. As well as its original series of 'ready-made' revision sessions, it provides checklists, structured reflections, and a hallmark page-by-page design that helps you work quickly and easily. You can take charge of your preparation and approach exams with calm and confidence, expertise and enjoyment.
Published May 2003
Skills for Success enables students to think creatively and constructively about personal, academic and career goals. Individuals are encouraged to identify what success really means to them and to plan an effective path towards achieving their aims. The book is rich in structured, reflective and practical activities that develop essential skills and qualities. There are also excellent materials for recording achievement and preparing for job applications. An essential text for students and for lecturers delivering Personal Development Planning in Higher Education.
Published September 2005
'More analysis needed' is a comment lecturers repeatedly have to write on their students' work. Proceeding beyond this level of feedback is difficult when many students don't understand what analysis is or how to integrate criticism into their work. With this in mind, Critical Thinking Skills has taken the seemingly baffling art of analysis and broken it down into easy to understand blocks, with clear explanations, good examples, and plenty of activities to develop understanding at each stage. It even applies the techniques to reading, note making and writing. Recommending Critical Thinking Skills will help your students develop this important set of skills and improve their grades. Request your inspection copy today!
Published April 2009
All stages of research and writing a dissertation are examined in this book, as well as showing students how to generate and develop ideas for original research projects. It deals with the challenges of dissertations from all perspectives: humanities, the social sciences, natural sciences and the profession. Clearly setting out the best way of planning and conducting research using qualitative and quantitative techniques and primary and secondary material, it shows how to plan and write dissertations in a clear, concise, economical style – and clearly explains what examiners are looking for and how to get the highest grades.
Publishing August 2009
Practical, lively, research-informed undergraduate text offering experience, evidence based ideas, advice and information.
This book provides students with models, tasks and activities to enable them to think through, plan, action, write and present their research. It not only discusses the major research project or dissertation, but also focuses on a range of research-based work expected from undergraduates at any stage of their degree. Offering experience, evidence based ideas and advice on all stages of the research process, it also includes material on necessary skills for after graduation.
Publishing August 2009
It will help the student through the process of using their reading in essays, from how to quote, paraphrase and summarise sources, through to editing their work. Using real texts and examples of student writing as part of an inductive/practice approach, it focuses on the fundamental feature of all academic writing and work, why and how reading is used in academic writing.
Published August 2005
Feedback from users of The Student's Guide to Writing suggested that some time-pressed students find it hard to sit and read a book from cover-to-cover, and need a quick, problem-solving approach to improving their writing. This is what is offered in Peck and Coyle's new book Write it Right. It offers advice in short 'modules' which target particular tasks (such as applications or essays) or common problems (like punctuation) and is ideal for students who need to go back to the basics of writing.
Published Feb 2008
I discovered your book whilst browsing in a bookshop towards the
end of my dissertation. For the first time in my "academic"
life I discovered what was actually required of a student to get good
grades...The long and the short of it is that I am writing to thank
you SO VERY MUCH for this excellent book. It has completely changed my
approach to serious reading and I am spreading the news to all my
friends and family.'
- Helen C Ameen, Linguistics student, Leicester University
Published June 2008
The popularity of e-learning courses - those that offer education
via the Internet, network, or standalone computer - is growing. Such
courses benefit both students and educators by offering more
flexibility about the place, pace and time at which to study, making
education more widely accessible. However, to take advantage of these
benefits, students and educators must extend and develop their
existing skills. This book covers all the main topics of e-learning,
has a glossary of e-learning terms and includes many practical
activities to actively engage the reader. It will be an essential
guide for students on e-learning courses, and will be of interest to
educators and course-providers offering such courses.
Including new material on blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios, the second edition reflects the increasing number of e-learning courses. This practical, flexible text helps students enhance and develop their existing skills whether they are a distance learner, or at an institution which has e-learning integrated into their programmes.
Published July 2005
John Peck and Martin Coyle's The Student's Guide to Writing became a firm favourite amongst lecturers when it when it was first published in 1999. Aimed at students wishing to perfect their writing skills, it shows them how to construct a sentence, a paragraph and an essay and carefully explains grammar, punctuation and spelling. For this second edition, the authors have made their explanations even clearer, included a "Spot the Mistake" section, and added an index for easier navigation.
Published February 2007
'I thoroughly enjoyed the author's style of writing. She combines a firm and clear sense of how things should be done with some light touches of humour. The tone is approachable and supportive and I feel that this is one of the best selling points for the book. The combination of occasional short, decisive sentences adds to the tone of authority within the work.' - Lucinda Becker, University of Reading, UK
The Mature Student's Guide to Writing is a compendium of
information on basic grammar, punctuation and a wide variety of
written forms. Adults returning to study (and general readers too)
will enjoy its lucid, conversational style. The author makes no
assumptions in terms of readers' prior knowledge - explanations are
full, and each chapter contains an introduction and a summary. There
are also exercises and many examples of students' writing. This
accessible book will be an invaluable companion for the mature
student, guiding them through what they need to know in order to write
clear English.
Published April 2003
'Patrick Dunleavy has written a worthy successor to Sternberg's
How to Complete and Survive a Dissertation. Sternberg illuminated the
emotional management of the process; Dunleavy illuminates the
management of text. Following his recommended disciplines, he has
produced an elegant, witty and spare guide for the perplexed student.'
- Herman Schwartz, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,
Politics Department, University of Virginia
'Authoring a PhD is superb. It is so in three ways: tone; nature
of the advice offered; the fact that the book itself is an exemplary
illustration of the principles it recommends. After reading it, it is
hard to see how many PhD students ever managed to write an acceptable
thesis without reading it. I know of no other work offering advice of
such substance.'
- John Peck, Cardiff University
Published May 2008
This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the use of internet technology in research. It provides full accounts of the different ways in which online resources can help with research projects in any area of the social sciences or humanities along with useful hints and tips as to how you can make the internet work for you.
Published August 2008
This is a practical skills guide for those studying business and management-related subjects at undergraduate level. Written in a one-to-one style, the book helps students prepare effectively for assignments, presentations, examinations and dissertations, interweaving both business studies and the real workings of business.
Published July 2004
This book offers advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students
with an accessible introduction to the foundations of research in the
human sciences. It covers the tools, terminology and research
perspectives that researchers and students will need to know in order
to (i) engage in academic debate, (ii) successfully complete their
long essays, dissertations and theses. A particular strength of this
volume is its style: It is written to the student as opposed to
just for them. Language is kept as clear as possible,
especially when describing the basic assumptions upon which all
research is built.
