Study Skills A Student Survival Guide

Offers PhD and MSc students with advice on issues relating to the organisation and presentation of their research. This book covers the skills that the Research Councils expect students to develop during their doctoral training. It features tips, checklists and 'remember' points.

This easy-to-use guide on study skills is designed for PhD science students, but much of the content will also be suitable for students undertaking other postgraduate science-based courses.

The book covers the skills you need to get you up and running, such as time management and organisation, as well as how to get the best out of working as part of a research team. Once your research is underway, it provides guidance and advice on how to present your work, both in writing and on paper, and how to appraise critically your own work and that of others. Throughout your research you will need to keep up to date with the scientific literature, thus information on how to do this is also included.

Featuring handy quick tips, checklists and key ‘remember’ points, the book is structured so that you can dip into it in any order throughout your research or read in stages as your work develops.

While aimed primarily at students, much of the book will also be of practical value to new supervisors wanting to ensure their students are equipped with the transferable skills needed to take them through their PhD and beyond.

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Postgraduate students require a variety of skills in addition to the specialist knowledge of their area of research, including organisation, time management, preparation and presentation of a seminar, and writing a thesis and a research paper. This outstanding title provides PhD and MSc students with advice on key issues relating to the organisation and presentation of their research.

• Helps students to deal with an increasingly competitive marketplace after completing their studies
• Clearly written and illustrated by professional lecturers
• Covers the skills that the Research Councils expect students to develop during their doctoral training
• Features handy quick tips, checklists and key ‘remember’ points so that students can dip into it in any order throughout their research or read in stages as their work develops

This easy-to-use guide on study skills is also of practical value to new supervisors wanting to ensure their students are equipped with the transferable skills needed to take them through their PhD and beyond.

From the reviews:

“I am left with just one question: why should readers pick this manual as opposed to others?… One answer is timing: Due to this book’s newness, its lists of websites and the like for additional information will prove highly reliable… Second, the fact that it was written by several people, each one an expert in the area he or she discusses… Yet the ultimate answer… rests with the book’s conciseness, its coverage of so much advice on so many (related) subjects…” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, March 2006