This guide will help you to survive and thrive during your degree and on into the workplace. Everything you do at university can be useful in your career. Packed with practical hints, study tips, short cuts, real-life examples and careers advice, the new expanded fourth edition of this book is an invaluable resource throughout your geography, earth science or environmental science studies.
This book provides guidance for successful study on many topics including:
Starting as a student
Being an effective researcher
Presenting information effectively in posters, presentations, essays and reports
Time management, well-being and ethics
Field and laboratory work
Assessment and feedback
Written in an accessible style, this guide also explains the role of the academic, and how it differs from that of a school teacher. It prepares you for the world of work by showing how the skills you learn at university today can be used in your career choice of tomorrow.
Section 1 Getting started, keeping going 1: Transitions - essential info 2: Reflecting, reviewing and acting - adding value to your degree 3: Balancing study, work and fun 4: Looking after yourself, commuting, mature study and well-being advice 5: Random useful stuff 6: Careers and employability Section 2 Transforming your learning, becoming more academic! 7: Threshold concepts - difficult stuff 8: Creativity, innovation and thinking 9: Listening 10: Effective reading 11: Making effective notes 12: Constructing an argument Section 3 Capturing evidence 13: Research - searching for evidence 14: Acknowledging sources 15: Ethics and plagiarism 16: Collaborative learning: team research and reporting 17: Discussion Section 4 Assignments and assessment 18: Effective essay skills 19: Not the essay: reports, laboratory and field notebooks 20: Abstracts and executive summaries 21: Reviewing papers and books 22: Presentations 23: Posters and display stands 24: Examinations and revision 25: Introducing dissertations and extended projects Section 5 Field activities 26: Fieldtrips 27: Presenting maps, sketches and data 28: Answers
