How to Succeed in Your Social Science Degree by Hilary Arksey
How do you survive the university experience? What do tutors want? How can you express yourself best in tutorials, seminars, essays and exams?
This book takes a clear-eyed approach to the challenges of university life, offers realistic advice and demonstrates how to acquire transferable skills with a view to future employability. All of the basics are here:
How educational performance can be maximized
How to develop powers of expression
How to analyze data
What to do and avoid doing in writing a dissertation
What to do to make sure that university life brings the best employment prospects
What skills and performance impress tutors
What employers want
Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style by experienced teachers, the book offers students the perfect one-stop guide to making their university study experience count.