How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree is a ground-breaking book, offering a no-nonsense approach to all areas of undergraduate life, including maximizing learning opportunities, handling mathematics and coping with laboratory work. How to succeed in mastering time and finances is covered, as are examination techniques. It also discusses the wider aspects of university life and helps students to grasp each opportunity available to them. The book concludes with a chapter on how to break into your chosen career.
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How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree is a ground-breaking book, offering a no-nonsense approach to all areas of undergraduate life, including maximizing learning opportunities, handling mathematics and coping with laboratory work.
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Introduction.- Getting Started.- Maximising Your Learning Opportunities.- Making the Most of Your Time.- Working Your Options.- Beyond the Studying.- What if Things Go Wrong?.- Examinations and Postgraduate Options.- Life After Your Degree.- Appendices.
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Excellent, clearly rooted in reality, with lots of good advice on how to do well, how to make the most of Higher Education and what can be done if things don't seem to be working out. The sections on work placement and employers and about organisational and social skills have particularly good advice.Jim Breithuapt, Wigan and Leigh College
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Excellent, clearly rooted in reality, with lots of good advice on how to do well, how to make the most of Higher Education and what can be done if things don't seem to be working out. The sections on work placement and employers and about organisational and social skills have particularly good advice.Jim Breithuapt, Wigan and Leigh College
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781403906403
Publisert
2003-07-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Red Globe Press
Vekt
244 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
05, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184

Biographical note

LUCINDA BECKER is an Associate Professor at the University of Reading within Arts and Humanities. She is also a professional trainer, developing and delivering courses in communication, presentation, management techniques and job-searching skills. She is the author of The Mature Student's Handbook, 14 Days to Exam Success and co-author of Writing for Engineers and Presentation Skills for Students (with Joan van Emden).

DAVID PRICE is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Chartered Chemist and a Visiting Research Fellow at Reading University. He is an L.E.A. school governor and gives lectures to sixth formers, tutors, undergraduates and postgraduates and presents his research at international conferences.