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Book SynopsisNew edition of a classic reference work recognizes recent developments in information literacy--including finding, evaluating, and citing a wide range of digital sources--and the evolving use of software for citation management, graphics, and paper format and submission while continuing to reflect best practices for research and writing.

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Book Synopsis What criteria are used to assess the scholarly merit of a thesis? What is the level of conceptualization that is expected in doctoral theses? How can you prepare to defend your thesis? What is the most effective route to achieving your doctorate? The starting point to achieving your doctorate is to appreciate how your thesis will be examined. The criteria that examiners use, the questions they ask in vivas and their reports provide templates against which theses are judged. So, why not start from this endpoint as you plan, undertake, write and defend your research?This book focuses specifically on how you, as a doctoral candidate, can raise your level of thinking about your chosen topic. Doing so will improve the quality of your research and ultimately contribute to knowledge. It also explores the nature of conceptualization which is sought by examiners in theses. As a candidate, the book provides those essential characteristics of doctorateness thatTable of ContentsIntroduction The end is where we start from What is doctorateness? Architecture of the doctoral thesis Exploiting the literature Thinking about research design What’s in a word? How to conclude your thesis in one chapter The abstract The magic circle Preparing for the viva Dynamics of the doctoral viva Epilogue

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Book SynopsisFrancis Fukuyama’s controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama’s work, the central hypothesis and explanation he put forward were not, in fact, new, but they were novel in the academic and historical context of the time. Fukuyama’s central argument was that the end of the Cold War was a symptom of, and a vital waypoint in, a teleological progression of history. Interpreting history as “teleological” is to say that it is headed towards a final state, or end point: a state in which matters will reach an equilibrium in which things are as good as they can get. For Fukuyama, this would mean the end of “mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”. This grand theory, which sought to explain the end of the Cold War through a single overarching hypothesis, made the novel step of resurrecting the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel’s theory of history – which had long been ignored by practical historians and political philosophers – and applying it to current events.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who is Francis Fukuyama? What does The End of History and the Last Man Say? Why does The End of History and the Last Man Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' wealth and entire economies. Yet whenever and wherever a bubble begins to form, we're told that this time things are different, that there are sound reasons to continue to invest and to presume that prices will continue to rise steadily forever.Kindleberger's achievement is to use the critical thinking skill of evaluation to examine this strange mindset and the arguments advanced in support of it. He harshly judges the acceptability of the reasons used to create such arguments, and highlights the issues of relevance and adequacy that give us every reason to doubt them. Kindleberger also uses his powers of reasoning to effect an unusual achievement – writing a work soundly rooted in economics that nonetheless engages and convinces a non-specialist audience of the correctness of his arguments.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was Charles P. Kindleberger? What does Manias, Panics and Crashes say? Why does Manias, Panics and Crashes matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisFocused on actively using systematic review as method, this book provides clear, step-by-step advice on the logic and processes of systematic reviewing.Stressing the importance of precision and accuracy, this new edition carefully balances a need for insightful theory with real-world pragmatism; it introduces a wide range of cutting-edge approaches to research synthesis including text mining, living reviews and new ideas in mixed methods reviews such as qualitative comparative analysis. The book also includes: Anew chapter on statistical synthesis Coverage of computer-assisted methods and relevant software Expanded sections on data extraction and management Aguide to working with many different types of data including longitudinal and panel. Packed with examples from across the social sciences, this book helps students and researchers alike in turning systematic reviews into recommendations for policy Trade Review"An excellent introduction to systematic review delivered in an accessible style and logical format. This new edition encourages thoughtful consideration of key methodological concepts in the generation and conduct of systematic reviews and embraces recent advances in review synthesis methods. Useful to researchers and students at all levels." -- Gabrielle Thorpe"[This] book is written in a very accessible style, supported with examples of existing systematic reviews and meta-analyses at all stages of synthesis....The step-by-step structure and clear labelling of this book make it the ideal systematic review resource for students and researchers at all levels." -- Emma Norris * The Psychologist *Table of ContentsIntroducing systematic reviews - David Gough, Sandy Oliver and James Thomas Stakeholder perspectives and participation in reviews - Rebecca Rees and Sandy Oliver Commonality and diversity in reviews - David Gough and James Thomas Getting started with a review - Sandy Oliver, Kelly Dickson, Mukdarut Bangpan, and Mark Newman Finding relevant studies - Ginny Brunton, Claire Stansfield, Jenny Caird, and James Thomas Describing and analysing studies - Katy Sutcliffe, Sandy Oliver and Michelle Richardson Tools and technologies for information management - Jeff Brunton, James Thomas, and Sergio Graziosi Synthesis methods for combining and configuring textual or mixed methods data - James Thomas, Alison O’Mara-Eves, Angela Harden, and Mark Newman Synthesis methods for combining and configuring quantitative data - James Thomas, Alison O’Mara-Eves, Dylan Kneale and Ian Shemilt Developing justifiable evidence claims - Kristin Liabo, David Gough and Angela Harden Using research findings - David Gough, Ruth Stewart and Janice Tripney

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Book SynopsisGive your child the support they need in EnglishThese new practice test materials for Cambridge English: Movers (also known as Young Learners English: Movers) support young learners and include comprehensive guidance for both teachers and parents. By working through the practice tests, children will feel ready for what they need to do on the day of the test, and will also have fun whilst they are learning.The book includes: 3 full practice tests with a colourful and clear design to motivate and encourage young learners, and prepare them for what they will see in the real test Audio is available online with recordings by young native English speakersThe Teacher's Guide and a Parent's Guide are available online, and are full of information and support for anyone preparing their child for their first Cambridge English test.For Teachers and Parents (available online) A full guide to each part of the test Ideas for exam preparation activities Model answer recordings for the Speaking paper recorded by young native English speakers so that learners hear examples of correct English again and again Cambridge English vocabulary list with the key words learners need to know Audio scripts for the Listening and Speaking sections Answer keyTrade Review.

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Book Synopsis Writing for Academic Success is a vital practical guide for any ambitious student. If you seek to manage your writing effectively, reduce stress, and improve your confidence and efficiency, this book is for you. The authors show you how to acquire communicative rigor in research essays, reports, book and article reviews, exam papers, research proposals, and literature reviews, through to thesis writing, posters and papers for presentation and publication. This second edition has been fully revised to reflect the online learning explosion. The authors provide insightful new material about how to work productively in different online contexts such as with blogs and wikis, setting up an e-portfolio, and raising an online profile. They also set out a focused guide to issues unique to digital communication, and working with and across different media and technologies. The book includes advice on common writing concerns, cross-cultural aTrade Review′Gail Craswell has written an excellent book. Chapters are rich with detailed, step-by-step explanations that will be as useful to experienced writers as to students. Clear, specific advice with concise steps for succeeding at each kind of writing makes each chapter a valuable tool′ - Design Research NewsTable of ContentsManaging Your Writing Environment Fundamentals of Solid Preparation Essentials of Academic Writing Principles of Sound Structure Research Essays Reports, Book or Article Reviews and Online Writing Coursework Exams The Literature Review Reports and Research Proposals Thesis Writing Presentations Publishing and Raising Your Profile Appendix 1: Words and Phrases for Developing Discussions

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Book SynopsisPupils often make poor choices when it comes to independent learning because they donât intuitively understand how to learn. In the classroom too, they typically misjudge how well they understand new concepts, overestimate the accuracy of their own examples and underestimate how much they forget. This book reveals how a metacognitive approach to teaching can help overcome these challenges and support pupils in their learning. This approach can help them in developing the skills to become successful, self-regulated learners.Drawing on key research from cognitive science, this book explores how metacognition works in practice and argues that it is a complex skill best developed over months and years at school. It provides a blueprint for how âlearning to learnâ alongside âquick winsâ that teachers can implement straight away. Chapters cover: â The metacognitive processes that underpin effective learningâ Myths about learning, and how pupilsâ memory really works

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Book SynopsisJeanne has been teaching and managing in the field of English language and academic writing for over twenty years and currently lectures at the University of Leeds UK. She has been Chair of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes and set up one of the first academic writing centres in a UK university. Jeanne is author of The Student Phrase Book, How to Use Your Reading in Your Essays, Reading and Making Notes and Writing for University.Table of ContentsWhy use this book? Aims and arguments Definitions, groupings and characteristics Events, situations and business contexts Size, amount and distribution Time, trends and change Business strategy, models, methods and results Analyzing and identifying common themes Evaluating ideas, evidence and impact Concluding, applying ideas and making recommendations Appendix: Latin phrases and abbreviations Index.

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Book SynopsisRuby Cline is an educational content creator and a graduate from the University of Cambridge. Her TikTok account (@ConversationsWithRuby), has made education more accessible for millions of young people for over five years. Ruby is a journalist at The Telegraph.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing helpful examples and top tips throughout, this handy guide equips students with the tools to understand, respond to and apply lecturer feedback in order to continuously improve their academic performance. Chapters take students through the entire feedback process, from handling common feelings associated with feedback and making sense of criticism through to creating an effective action plan and applying feedback across their course.Using Feedback to Boost Your Grades will be an invaluable toolkit for students of all subject areas and levels who want to take control of their academic progress and make the most of the feedback they receive.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book provides clear and straight-forward strategies which help students to understand the conventions of academic assignments and what lecturers expect from their work. Simplify Your Study is organised around nine core units which focus on the sticking points' of university study, including organisation and planning, reading and note-making strategies, producing essays, critical thinking, delivering presentations and preparing for exams. Packed with tried-and-tested strategies for success, this essential resource will help students of all disciplines and levels to achieve their academic potential.Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/simplify-your-study. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.Trade ReviewFor many students in higher education academic study can be daunting, stressful or frustrating. Consciously or unconsciously, these students use the same studying and learning techniques that they acquired at school, but fail to achieve their potential. Here's their problem: those techniques are not fit for 'academic' purpose. However, students never learn this because they receive feedback on their output (e.g. assignments, exams, etc.) rather than on their input (i.e. how they study). Peter Lia has dedicated his career in higher education to empowering students to take more thoughtful and strategic approaches to academic studying and learning. In this refreshing book, he breaks with tradition and encourages students to approach their assignments with creative methods. Out go the endless pages of notes, and in come charts, tables, drawings and templates that encourage students to think logically and critically about their academic work. The result is the demystification of studying and learning in higher education and a more inclusive and fulfilling experience for students. * Iria Giuffrida, William & Mary Law School, USA *This book simplifies the process of learning and working and will make learning accessible and enjoyable. Peter Lia is a rare master of his craft and every education institution should take note of his creative wisdom. * Ranjita Dhital, University of Reading, UK *This book blends supportive and inspirational material to provide students with a structured, practical and creative approach to academic assessments. It is a well structured, step-by-step guide and I would highly recommend it. * Benita Cox, Imperial College London, UK *Peter Lia's Simplify Your Study is a new resource that will be perfect for my students, as our module is all about Essential Study Skills. The book is clear and explains concepts well in a manner that students will easily understand. * Freda Cook, University of Sunderland, UK *Table of ContentsOrganisation and planning Reading Making notes Critical thinking for academic writing Academic writing Producing essays Reflective writing Doing a dissertation Revision and examinations.

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Book SynopsisPacked with practical advice, this concise guide explains what reflective writing is and how to approach it. It equips students with all the key information and strategies they need to develop an appropriate reflective writing style, whatever their subject area. Annotated examples from a range of disciplines and contexts show students how to put these tips into practice. It concludes with a section on applying reflective practices to personal development and career planning. This handy guide is an indispensable resource for students of all disciplines and levels, who are required to develop and demonstrate reflective qualities in their work. It will be particularly useful to students writing reflective logs on placements. New to this Edition:- Contains more content on the value and importance of reflection in other life contexts, so that students can appreciate its relevance from an early stage;- Features a short overview of academic writing genres, to help Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART 1: UNDERSTANDING REFLECTIVE WRITING 1. About Reflection 2. Getting Started on Reflective Writing 3. Reflective and Critical Writing 4. Asking Strategic Questions PART 2: LANGUAGE IN REFLECTIVE WRITING 5. Reflecting on Yourself and Your Experiences 6. Where am 'I' in Reflective Writing? PART 3: FORMS AND CONTEXTS FOR REFLECTIVE WRITING 7. A Reflective Diary or Learning Journal 8. Learning Journals and Assessment 9. Portfolios 10. Reflection in the Research Process PART 4: REFLECTION IN READING AND WRITING 11. Writing a Critical Review or Annotated Bibliography 12. Linking Theory and Practice 13. That 'Reflective' Quality in Writing 14. Getting the Balance Right PART 5: USING FRAMEWORKS IN REFLECTIVE WRITING 15. Choosing a Framwork 16. Using a Framework for Reflection: Gibbs' Reflective Cycle PART 6: REFLECTION FOR LIFE 17. Doing the Groundwork 18. Finding Your Evidence 19. Reflection as a Practitioner Conclusion: The Habit of Reflection References Useful Sources Index.

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Book SynopsisWhether you’re in a lecture or the library, it’s easy to get information overload. Take Great Notes helps you figure out which points matter most, and how to digest information efficiently and effectively. Identify and set good notetaking habits Take clear concise notes at every study session Pick the best notetaking method to suit you Use to improve your assignments right away. Super Quick Skills provides the essential building blocks you need to succeed at university - fast. Packed with practical, positive advice on core academic and life skills, you’ll discover focused tips and strategies to use straight away. Whether it’s writing great essays, understanding referencing or managing your wellbeing, find out how to build good habits and progress your skills throughout your studies. Learn core skills quickly Apply them right away and see results Succeed in your studies and in life Super Quick Skills gives you the foundations you need to confidently navigate the ups and downs of university life.Trade ReviewThis book develops students′ understanding of note taking. It is easy to read and engage with: it would be beneficial to students whom are enrolling onto university programmes as preparation material for their course. -- Alice Evans * Journal of Perioperative Practice *Packed with concise information to help students succeed at university. Whether you are an undergraduate student or undertaking a postgraduate programme, you will be able to find a book that will help you develop your study skills. Of the three books I reviewed [Take Great Notes, Find Your Source and Plan Your Essay], all of them were easy to read and follow, with each book providing a 60 second summary before moving onto more detail in each section and providing reasoning throughout. -- Julie Quick * Journal of Perioperative Practice *Table of ContentsWhy and What? Chapter 1. Why should I take notes? Chapter 2. What are good notes like? Chapter 3. How do I take notes in a digital age? Methods of Notetaking Chapter 4. What is the Outline Method of notetaking? Chapter 5. What is the Cornell (layout) Method? Chapter 6. What is the Charting Method? Chapter 7. What are Visual Methods of notetaking? Chapter 8. What are Electronic Methods of notetaking? Notetaking in Context Chapter 9. How do I take notes of a lecture or lesson? Chapter 10. How do I take notes from an article or book?

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Book SynopsisStudying for your Education Degree is PERFECT for anyone wanting to train to become a primary or secondary teacher or undertake an education studies course. After reading this fully comprehensive guide you will understand: the structure and culture of HE, and how education/teaching fits into it what to expect, and what will be expected of you, as a university student teaching and assessment methods within education, so that you can perform to the best of your ability in an academic environment how to manage your teaching/education studies in an effective way and make the most of the resources available to you. The books in our Critical Study Skills series will help you gain the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to achieve your goals. They provide support in all areas important for university study, including institutional and disciplinary policy and practice, self-management, and research and communication. Packed with tasks and activities to help you improve your learning, including learner autonomy and critical thinking, and to guide you towards reflective practice in your study and work life. Uniquely, this book is written by an experienced education lecturer and an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) lecturer. Table of Contents Studying education / teaching in higher education Strategies for effective learning Critical thinking Becoming a member of your academic community Technology and resources Strategies for assessment

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Book SynopsisHegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy. Above all, it is famous for laying out a new approach to reasoning and philosophical argument, an approach that has been credited with influencing Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many other key modern philosophers. That approach is the so-called “Hegelian dialectic” – an open-ended sequence of reasoning and argument in which contradictory concepts generate and are incorporated into a third, more sophisticated concept. While the Phenomenology does not always clearly use this dialectical method – and it is famously one of the most difficult works of philosophy ever written – the Hegelian dialectic provides a perfect template for critical thinking reasoning skills. A hallmark of good reasoning in the construction of an argument, and the searching out of answers must necessarily consider contradictory viewpoints or evidence. For Hegel, contradiction is key: it is precisely what allows reasoning to progress. Only by incorporating and overcoming contradictions, according to his method, is it possible for thought to progress at all. While writing like Hegel might not be advisable, thinking like him can help take your reasoning to the next level.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was George W.F. Hegel? What does The Phenomenology of Spirit Say? Why does The Phenomenology of Spirit Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisAntonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is a remarkable work, not only because it was written in jail as the Italian Marxist thinker fell victim to political oppression in his home country, but also because it shows his impressive analytical ability.First published in 1948, 11 years after Gramsci’s death, Prison Notebooks ably demonstrates that the writer has an innate ability to understand the relationship between different parts of an argument. This is how Gramsci manages to analyze such wide-ranging topics – capitalism, economics and culture – to explain historical developments. He introduces the idea of “hegemony,” the means by which ruling classes in a society gain, keep hold of and manage their power, and, by carefully looking at how society operates, he reveals the manner in which the powerful deploy a combination of force and manipulation to convince most people that the existing social arrangement is logical and in their best interests ­– even when it isn’t.Gramsci shows exactly how the ruling class maintains power by influencing both political institutions like the courts and the police, and civil institutions, such as churches, family and schools. His powerful analysis led him to the conclusion that change can only take place in two ways, either through revolution or through a slow but constant struggle to transform the belief system of the ruling classes.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was Gramsci? What does Prison Notebooks Say? Why does Prison Notebooks Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisFriedrich Hayek’s 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics – which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi Germany and its allies beguilingly answered by the promises of socialism – Hayek’s carefully constructed argument is a fine example of the importance of good reasoning in critical thinking.Reasoning is the art of constructing good, persuasive arguments by organizing one’s thoughts, supporting one’s conclusions, and considering counter-arguments along the way. The Road to Serfdom illustrates all these skills in action; Hayek’s argument was that, while many assumed socialism to be the answer to totalitarian, fascist regimes, the opposite was true. Socialist government’s reliance on a large state, centralised control, and bureaucratic planning – he insisted – actually amounts to a different kind of totalitarianism. Freedom of choice, Hayek continued, is a central requirement of individual freedom, and hence a centrally planned economy inevitably constrains freedom. Though many commentators have sought to counter Hayek’s arguments, his reasoning skills won over many of the politicians who have shaped the present day, most notably Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was David Linden? What does The Road to Serfdom Say? Why does The Road to Ser Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also gives us very detailed evaluations of the significance of a vast amount of data explaining why incomes is distributed in the ways it is.As Piketty stresses, “the distribution question… deserves to be studied in a systematic and methodical fashion.” This stress on evaluating the significance of data leads him to focus on the central evaluative questions, and look in turn at the acceptability, relevance, and adequacy of existing justifications for the unequal distribution of wealth. In doing so, Piketty applies his understanding of the data to answering the deeply important question of what political structures and what policies are necessary to move us towards a more equal society.Piketty’s evaluation of the data supports his argument that inequality cannot be depended on to reduce over time: indeed, without government intervention, it is highly likely to increase. In addition, he evaluates international data to argue that poor countries do not necessarily become less poor as a result of foreign investment. This strong emphasis on the interrogation of data, rather than building mathematical models that are divorced from data, is a defining feature of Piketty’s work.Table of ContentsWays In to the Text Who was Thomas Piketty? What does Capital in the Twenty-First Century Say? Why does Capital in the Twenty-First Century Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisAlasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that modern moral discourse had no real rational basis. Instead, he suggested, if one wanted to build a rational theory for morality and moral actions, one would have to go all the way back to Aristotle. To build his arguments – which are widely acknowledged to be as important as they are complex – MacIntyre relies on two critical thinking skills above all others: evaluation and interpretation.The primary goal of evaluation is to judge the strength or weakness of arguments, asking how acceptable a given line of reasoning is, and how adequate it is to the situation. In After Virtue, MacIntyre applies incisive evaluation skills to major positions and figures in moral philosophy one after the other – showing how and why Aristotle’s template remains a stronger way of considering moral questions. Throughout this process, MacIntyre also relies on his interpretative skills. As MacIntyre knows, clarifying meanings, questioning definitions, and laying down definitions of his key terms is as vital to advancing his arguments as it is to evaluating those of other philosophers.Table of ContentsWays In to the Text Who was Alasdair MacIntyre? What does After Virtue Say? Why does After Virtue Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisOur Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity’s impact on the Earth to reduce the harm we are causing the planet before it’s too late. While some people believe we can find a middle ground between environmental conservation and economic development, or that future technological discoveries will solve the problem, the authors warn that our planet’s limited resources simply can’t support an economic system based on unlimited growth. Our Ecological Footprint offers a valuable tool to help us live more sustainably and safeguard our natural resources for generations to come.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who are Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees? What does Our Ecological Footprint Say? Why does Our Ecological Footprint Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisLiquidated is a work of anthropology that treats an unusual, despised subculture – that of the Wall Street banker – much as anthropologists have traditionally treated remote ‘savage’ tribes. But using the techniques of ethnography, including interviews, analysis of daily lives, and fieldwork to investigate a modern western culture is not original; what sets Ho's work apart and gives it value is her mastery of the critical thinking skills of problem-solving and creative thinking to reconceptualize the way in which we understand the bankers' mindset. Ho's great achievement is to ask productive questions, most obviously in drawing a distinction between bankers' self-image as capitalist warriors, freeing up value for themselves and shareholders by increasing the liquidity of the assets they invest in, and the social consequences of what they do. As Ho points out, not only is Wall Street institutionally inclined to embrace risk, in order to maximise profit; it is also prone to assume that increased liquidity (most often achieved by breaking up and selling off the parts of a large corporation) is a good in itself, irrespective of the outcomes for the workers actually involved in these disposals. Considering alternative possibilities, and generating fresh solutions, Ho determines that the capitalist principles that underpin Wall Street are myths, not the expression of some natural economic law..Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who is Karen Ho? What does Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street Say? Why does Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisGaia: A New Look At Life on Earth may continue to divide opinion, but nobody can deny that the book offers a powerful insight into the creative thinking of its author, James E. Lovelock. Published in 1979, Gaia offered a radically new hypothesis: the Earth, Lovelock argued, is a living entity. Together, the planet and all its separate living organisms form a single self-regulating body, sustaining life and helping it evolve through time. Lovelock sees humans as no more special than other elements of the planet, railing against the once widely-held belief that the good of mankind is the only thing that matters. Despite being seen as radical, and even idiotic on its publication, a version of Lovelock’s viewpoint has found resonance in contemporary debates about the environment and climate, and has now broadly come to be accepted by modern thinkers. As man’s effects on the climate become increasingly extreme, more and more elements of the Earth’s self-regulation seem to be unveiled – forcing scientists to ask how far the planet might be able to go in order self-regulate effectively. Indeed, despite its far-fetched elements, Lovelock’s Gaia thesis seems to ring more convincingly today than ever before; that it does is largely a result of the critical thinking skills that allowed Lovelock to produce novel explanations for existing evidence and, above all, to connect existing fragments of evidence together in new ways.Table of ContentsWays in to the text Who is James E. Lovelock? What does Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth Say? Why does Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisHerrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors’ central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social outcomes for individuals – and that it is a better predictor of achievement than income, background or socioeconomic status. One of the major issues raised by the book was its discussion of 'racial differences in intelligence,' and its contention that there is a link between the low observed test scores and social outcomes for African-Americans and their lack of social attainment.While the authors produce and interpret a great deal of data to back up their contentions, they ultimately fail to tackle the problem that neither 'intelligence' nor 'race' have widely accepted definitions in biology, anthropology or sociology. In consequence, the book has been termed both ‘racist’ and ‘pseudoscientific’ thanks to what its critics see as both its faulty reasoning and its uncautious interpretation of evidence. The debate continues to this day, with academics on both sides engaged in fierce arguments over what can be argued from the data that Herrnstein and Murray used.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who were Herrnstein and Murray? What does The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Say? Why does The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisAmerican scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and died. Why, for example, did the Norsemen of Scandinavia who colonized Greenland in the early tenth century not survive, while the inhabitants of Highland New Guinea did? With the evidence to hand, Diamond notes that a society’s collapse tends to be preceded by a severe reduction in population and considerable decreases in political, economic and social complexity. Delving even deeper, Diamond isolates five major factors determine the success or failure of human societies in all periods of history: environmental degradation, which occurs when an ecosystem deteriorates as its resources are exhausted; climate change (natural or man-made); hostile neighbors; weakened trading partners; and access or otherwise to the resources that enable the society to adapt its challenges. The breadth of Diamond’s research provides the springboard from which to reach these definitions, but it inevitably also introduces complications; how can evidence produced by specialists in so many different disciplines be compared? Diamond’s ability to understand the meaning of the evidence at hand – and his readiness to seek and supply clarifications of meaning where necessary – underpin his achievement, and comprise a textbook example of how interpretative skills can provide a framework for strong critical thinking.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who is Jared Diamond? What does Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive Say? Why does Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThe modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers. Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly influential work, is that Before European Hegemony, a predominantly insular, agrarian world was dominated by groups of mercantile city-states that traded with one another on equal terms across a series of interlocking areas of influence. In this reading of history, China and Japan, the kingdoms of India, Muslim caliphates, the Byzantine Empire and European maritime republics alike enjoyed no absolute dominance over their neighbours and commercial partners – and the egalitarian international trading network that they built endured until European advances in weaponry and ship types introduced radical instability to the system. Abu-Lughod's portrait of a more balanced world is a masterpiece of synthesis driven by one highly creative idea: her world system of interlocking spheres of influence quite literally connected masses of evidence together in new ways. A triumph of fine critical thinking.Table of ContentsWays In to the Text Who was Janet L. Abu-Lughod? What does Before European Hegemony Say? Why does Before European Hegemony Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisIf you are embarking on a university criminology, policing or other law enforcement professional degree, the books in this series will help you acquire and develop the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to achieve your goals. They provide support in all areas important for university study, including institutional and disciplinary policy and practice, self-management, and research and communication. Tasks and activities are designed to foster aspects of learning which are valued in higher education, including learner autonomy and critical thinking, and to guide you towards reflective practice in your study and work life. Academic Writing and Referencing for your Policing Degree provides you with a sound knowledge and understanding of: what constitutes good academic writing in policing a range of strategies for writing successful essays and reports the importance of clarity and coherence in your writing about policing how to improve your academic style, grammar and punctuation, and formatting and presentation referencing conventions in the field of policing, and of how to avoid plagiarism. Trade Review...One of the strengths of Academic Writing and Referencing is the focus on criticality, and developing an argument in academic essays. This can be challenging for inexperienced writers at degree level, but criticality and rhetorical writing is very important as social work students move into practice.... -- Lucy Rai * British Journal of Social Work *Table of Contents Academic writing: text, process and criticality Coherent texts and arguments Referring to sources Language in use Preparing your work for submission

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Book SynopsisThis textbook is a guide to success during the PhD trajectory. The first part of this book takes the reader through all steps of the PhD trajectory, and the second part contains a unique glossary of terms and explanation relevant for PhD candidates. Written in the accessible language of the PhD Talk blogs, the book contains a great deal of practical advice for carrying out research, and presenting one’s work. It includes tips and advice from current and former PhD candidates, thus representing a broad range of opinions. The book includes exercises that help PhD candidates get their work kick-started. It covers all steps of a doctoral journey in STEM: getting started in a program, planning the work, the literature review, the research question, experimental work, writing, presenting, online tools, presenting at one’s first conference, writing the first journal paper, writing and defending the thesis, and the career after the PhD. Since a PhD trajectory is a deeply personal journey, this book suggests methods PhD candidates can try out, and teaches them how to figure out for themselves which proposed methods work for them, and how to find their own way of doing things.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Getting started with a PhD.- 3. Planning your time.- 4. Developing your literature review.- 5. Formulating your research question.- 6. Preparing and executing experiments.- 7. Honing your academic writing skills.- 8. Presenting your work.- 9. Communicating science in the 21st century.- 10. Preparing for your first conference.- 11. Writing your first journal article.- 12. Compiling your work into a dissertation.- 13. Navigating career options after your PhD.- 14. Epilogue.- Glossary.

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Book SynopsisAcademic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student readers to the lively community of research and writing beyond the classroom, with its complex interactions, values, and goals. It presents writing from a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, cultivating students’ awareness of the subtle differences in genre.Trade Review“Academic Writing: An Introduction draws on current research in writing studies to usher students (and teachers) into an accessible but sophisticated overview of how university readers and writers create knowledge. This textbook demystifies academic writing by showing students how and why experts make their rhetorical moves within specific situations. Grounded in genre theory, the text offers teachers specific disciplinary tools to use to help students learn to read as well as to write university genres. Packed with examples from genres produced inside and outside the academy, the text offers rich potential for class discussion, and for individual or collaborative writing projects that would prepare students to move into disciplinary research situations (and beyond). Academic Writing is unique because it goes beyond describing the ‘conventions’ of research writing to, instead, richly illustrate what motivates this writing: why scholars cite sources, conduct peer review, or prefer a nominal style. I highly recommend this text for teachers who seek to prepare students to conduct research in their fields and beyond their undergraduate educations.” — Mary Soliday, San Francisco State UniversityPraise for previous editions:“Like any complex rhetorical art, good academic writing is less a matter of conforming to rules than of exercising judgment, informed by a sense of audience expectations and developed by disciplined practice. Academic Writing: An Introduction is one of those rare guides that knows this, and helps students help themselves. As students work through the book’s many imaginative exercises, they will find themselves developing a new level of rhetorical judgment. Not only will they be better equipped to deal with writing assignments in a variety of disciplines; they will likely go on improving as writers after their introductory course has been completed.” — Brian Turner, Centre for Academic Writing, University of WinnipegTable of Contents Preface1 Introducing Genre 1A Hearing Voices 1B Hearing Genres 1C High-School vs. University Writing 1D The University as Research Institution 2 Citation and Summary 2A Introducing Scholarly Citation 2B Is Citation Unique to Scholarly Writing? 2C Why Do Scholars Use Citation? 3 Summary 3A Noting for Gist 3B Recording Levels 3C Using Gist and Levels of Generality to Write Summary 3D Establishing the Summarizer's Position 3E Reporting Reporting 3F Experts and Non-Experts 4 Challenging Situations for Summarizers 4A High-Level Passages 4B Low-Level Passages 4C Summarizing Narrative 5 Think-Aloud Protocols in the Writing Classroom 5A Who Do You Think You're Talking To? 5B Traditions of Commentary on Student Writing 5C An Alternative to Traditional Commentary: The Think-Aloud Protocol 5D Adapting the Think-Aloud Protocol in the Writing Classroom 5E Reading on Behalf of Others 5F Reliability of Readers 5G Presupposing vs. Asserting 6 Orchestrating Voices 6A Making Speakers Visible: Writing as Conversation 6B Orchestrating Scholarly Voices 6C The Challenges of Non-Scholarly Voices 6D Orchestrating Academic Textbooks and Popular Writing 6E Research Proposals 7 Definition 7A Dictionaries 7B Appositions 7C Sustained Definitions 7D The Social Profile of Abstractions and Their Different Roles in Different Disciplines 8 Introductions 8A Generalization and Citation 8B Reported Speech 8C Documentation 8D State of Knowledge and the Knowledge Deficit 8E Student Versions of the Knowledge Deficit 9 Scholarly Readers 9A Think-Aloud and Genre Theory 9B The Mental Desktop 10 Scholarly Styles I: Nominal Style 10A Common and Uncommon Sense 10B Is Scholarly Writing Unnecessarily Complicated, Exclusionary, or Elitist? 10C Nominal Style: Syntactic Density 10D Nominal Style: Ambiguity 10E Sentence Style and Textual Coherence 11 Scholarly Styles II: Messages about the Argument 11A Messages about the Argument 11B The Discursive I 11C Forecasts 11D Emphasis 12 Scholarly Styles III: Visual Rhetoric 12A Figures 12B Graphs 12C Tables 12D Research Posters 13 Making and Maintaining Knowledge I 13A Peer Review 13B Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRD) 13C Making Knowledge 13D Method Sections 13E Qualitative Method and Subject Position 14 Making and Maintaining Knowledge II 14A Modality 14B Other Markers of the Status of Knowledge 14C Tense and the Story of Research 15 Conclusions and the Moral Compass of the Disciplines 15A Conclusions 15B The Moral Compass of the Disciplines: Research Ethics 15C The Moral Compass of the Disciplines: Moral Statements Glossary References Subject Index Index of Researchers Cited

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Book SynopsisThe Essays Only You Can Write offers a perspective on essay writing that spotlights a writer’s uniqueness. Resisting the perception that personal and academic writing are at odds with one another, it treats the impulse to write “personally” as potential fuel for a variety of writing purposes.The book encourages students to think like academics--pursuing their enthusiasms, trusting their ideas, and questioning their conclusions--by leading them through three main writing assignments: a personal essay, an essay based on texts, and a research essay. Each chapter offers exercises and strategies for various stages in the pre-writing, drafting, and revision processes. Freewriting; extensive attention to planning; devising a structure and order of ideas that both promote and reflect engagement with a topic; developing rhetorical awareness and knowledge of conventions; and an advocacy for expressive, socially-responsible writing--all are central elements of the text’s instruction.By acknowledging the emotions inherent in the writing process, many of which can muddle thinking--I don’t want anyone to see this; what if I make mistakes?; what if the writing isn’t good?; I don’t want to be critiqued; etc.--Papoulis helps beginning college writers to navigate the psychological as well as the technical roadblocks that can get in the way of their best personal and academic writing.Trade Review“The Essays Only You Can Write offers a large dose of relief and new hope to instructors of first-year writing courses. Every chapter of the book focuses on the value of each student’s own thinking and each student’s own experiences and language resources (rather than anything possibly producible by AI) as the essential elements for meeting every kind of writing challenge posed by the undergraduate classroom. The text will allow first-year composition classes to return to their ideal function of ushering students into a college community, where they can begin to discover themselves as legitimate members who are both learners and contributors to the enterprise of learning.” — Sheridan Blau, Professor of Practice in the Teaching of English, Teachers College, Columbia University“It is no secret that many students dread writing—it often feels disconnected from their interests and areas of study. The Essays Only You Can Write presents students with a vital guide to essay writing that foregrounds the important fact that ‘essays of all sorts are an invaluable form of expression.’ This is a text that welcomes readers into a community of writers by sharing a wealth of innovative tips and imaginative strategies while also presenting the writing process as an importantly personal domain. Irene Papoulis has written so much more than a book; The Essays Only You Can Write guides students through the various stages and myriad forms of essaying, and the voices one might don while doing so.” — erica j. kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking“If you’re anxious about AI technologies and instead want to steer students toward more mindful, analog explorations of themselves and their worlds, this book will be your thoughtful guide. Papoulis champions the personal and research essay genres, and she offers wise and humane coaching for all stages of the writing process. By modeling a ‘Journal of Noticings,’ a ‘Journal of Questions,’ and strategies for mindfulness, Papoulis integrates fresh ideas with time-tested approaches to personal and research essay writing.” — Tom Deans, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsPreface for StudentsPart One: Your Personal Essay Chapter 1: Starting Ideas and Fundamental Practices Chapter 2: Get to Know the Personal Essay Genre Chapter 3: Write Your Personal Essay Chapter 4: Revise, Add Texture to, and Finish Your Personal Essay Part Two: Your Essay about Text(s) Chapter 5: Reading and Writing about Texts in College Chapter 6: Move Toward Your Essay on a Text/Texts Chapter 7: Draft Your Essay About a Text Chapter 8: Revise your Essay about a text Part Three: Your Research Essay Chapter 9: Confront Your Research Essay Assignment Chapter 10: Do Your Research: Topic/Question/Sources Chapter 11: Build Your Research Essay Draft Chapter 12: Revise Your Research Essay Part Four: Mindfulness and Essay-Writing Chapter 13: Introductory Thoughts on Mindfulness Chapter 14: Using Mindfulness While Writing Part Five: Giving and Receiving Feedback in Peer Groups Chapter 15: What Is Peer Feedback, and Why Does it Make Some People Nervous? Chapter 16: The Psychology of Feedback Chapter 17: Being a Peer Responder Chapter 18: Prompts for Peer Responders

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Book SynopsisThis pocket-sized guide provides students with practical advice and suggestions for successfully managing all aspects of their time while studying, from prioritising tasks to planning for individual assignments, group tasks and exams. Activities and self-assessments help students to identify how they learn best so that they can develop time management strategies that work for them.Concise yet effective, this is an essential resource for any student looking to improve their time management skills. Ideal for self-study, it contains a section on troubleshooting for those looking for a quick-fix solution.Trade Review'Project manage your course! This wonderful little book offers wise advice and hundreds of simple tips to make study fit into your life and still be productive.' - Michael Webber, University of Melbourne, Australia 'Need more than 24 hours a day to do everything you need to? Time Management provides stressed-out students, faculty or staff with practical methods for effectively using time to accomplish vital tasks, while maintaining some semblance of a sane life. Anyone who needs help with time management should buy and read this book because 24 hours a day is rarely enough time.' - Todd Campbell, North Georgia College & State University, USA 'This book is a must have for any student attending university. It is easy to read, has funny illustrations that add to the message and great suggestions to try. Put this resource on your 'to do' list to buy before beginning that first semester!' - Kristi Frisbee, Pittsburg State University, USA 'Clear, concise and well written using plenty of examples and practical tips... they do actually fit in your pocket!' - Victor Glynn, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: PLANNING THE TERM / SEMESTER PART II: GETTING IT ALL DONE PART III: TROUBLESHOOTING PART IV: THE BIGGER PICTURE AND WHAT NEXT...? Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis indispensable guide shows students what successful academic writing involves and gives them the tools they will need to write successfully themselves. It separates fact from fiction and takes students through the five essential elements of academic writing: writing critically; using sources; developing your own voice; having a clear structure and style; and editing and polishing drafts. Chapters include annotated extracts of real students'' academic writing from a range of subject areas. This third edition has been revised throughout, and contains three new sections on originality, argument and synthesising sources.Writing for University is an essential resource for students making the transition to university-level study and a valuable reference point for all students doing academic study in English. It is suitable for students of all disciplines, from education and business through to social work and psychology.<Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Myths and Realities 2. What Academic Writing Looks Like 3. Understanding Your Context and Purpose 4. What Your Tutors Mean by 'Originality' Summary PART 2: WRITE CRITICALLY 5. What Critical Writing Is 6. What Critical Writing Looks Like 7. Common Errors in Critical Writing 8. Forming an Argument Summary PART 3: USE YOUR SOURCES CORRECTLY 9. Using Their Words - Quotation 10. Using Your Words - Paraphrase and Source Summary 11. Using Verbs to Show You Understand Your Sources 12. Referencing Styles and Techniques 13. Avoiding Accidental Plagiarism Summary PART 4: LET YOUR OWN VOICE SHINE THROUGH 14. Synthesizing Sources to Create Your Own Insights 15. Making Sure Your Own Arguments Stand Out 16. Using Verbs to Show Your Position 17. Using I and We 18. Expressing Levels of Certainty and Caution Summary PART 5: WRITE FOR YOUR READER 19. Creating a Clear Assignment Structure 20. Structure of Different Assignment Types 21. Creating a Clear Paragraph Structure 22. Developing a Clear Writing Style 23. Using Words Precisely Summary PART 6: EDIT AND POLISH YOUR ASSIGNMENT 24. The Process of Writing and Rewriting 25. Common Language Errors 26. A Checklist

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Book SynopsisJOHN PECK was formerly Reader in Victorian Literature at Cardiff University, UK.MARTIN COYLE is Professor in English at Cardiff University, UK.Trade Review'Excellent, valuable text.' - Lorraine Shaw, Liverpool John Moores University, UK 'This book is a little gem! For anyone interested in the English Language and with a concern for proper usage, this book is a delight - a must!' - Mr Francis J. Dempsey, Galway - Mayo Institute of Technology, IrelandTable of ContentsAbout this book PART ONE: WRITING CORRECTLY Writing a Sentence Punctuation Spelling PART TWO: WRITING CONFIDENTLY The Well Crafted Sentence Polished Punctuation Spelling and Usage PART THREE: WRITING WITH STYLE Writing an Essay Punctuation and Presentation The Right Word PART FOUR: WRITING RULES Twenty to Remember Spot the Mistake A Note on Grammar Index.

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Book SynopsisHomi K. Bhabha’s 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and the nations across the globe that they colonized. Colonization was not just an economic, military or political process, but one that radically affected culture and identity across the world. It is a field in which interpretation comes to the fore, and much of its force depends on addressing the complex legacy of colonial encounters by careful, sustained attention to the meaning of the traces that they left on colonized cultures. What Bhabha’s writing, like so much postcolonial thought, shows is that the arts of clarification and definition that underpin good interpretation are rarely the same as simplification. Indeed, good interpretative clarification is often about pointing out and dividing the different kinds of complexity at play in a single process or term. For Bhabha, the object is identity itself, as expressed in the ideas colonial powers had about themselves. In his interpretation, what at first seems to be the coherent set of ideas behind colonialism soon breaks down into a complex mass of shifting stances – yielding something much closer to postcolonial thought than a first glance at his sometimes dauntingly complex suggests.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was Homi K. Bhabhaa? What does The Location of Culture Say? Why does The Location of Culture Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisEd Byrne is an Academic Neurologist who has worked in Australia and the UK. His research contributions are in the fields of mitochondrial disease and neuromuscular disorders. He was Professor of Neurology and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, and then had a number of leadership positions in health and in the university world including Dean of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, Vice-Provost for Health at UCL and Vice-Chancellor of Monash University. He is now the President and Principal at King's College London. He is currently the Chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He has long-standing interests in working to improve the contribution that the university sector can make to society at large. Charles Clarke studied at King's College, Cambridge. He was President of the National Union of Students from 1975 to 1977 and then advised Neil Kinnock, Education spokesmaTable of Contents Introduction 1 Changing universities in changing times 2 Historical perspectives and international comparisons 3 Universities and work 4 Research: understanding and transforming the world 5 The local economic and social impact of universities 6 Who benefits from a university education? 7 Education is for life 8 Who pays for it all? 9 University governance, leadership and the state 10 Ten questions about the future of universities 11 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisKaplan is an Official Teaching Partner of the ACT. Kaplan’s ACT Prep Plus 2025 has the detailed subject review, practice tests, and expert strategies you need to be prepared for test day. This ACT prep book includes hundreds of practice questions, 4 online practice tests, and video lessons from our experts to help you face test day with confidence. We’re so certain that ACT Prep Plus offers the guidance you need that we guarantee it: After studying with our online resources and book, you'll score higher on the ACT—or you'll get your money back.Essential Review 5 full-length Kaplan practice tests with detailed answer explanations (1 printed in the book and 4 tests online) One-year access to our online center with additional Qbank and videos to help guide your study Pre-quizzes to help you figure out what you already know and what you can skip Mixed p

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Book SynopsisA life-saving illustrated guide to making student life easier, more productive and more fun. With shortcuts to academic success, tips for making the most of the student experience and - most importantly - hangover hacks to make things better the next day.Welcome to the world of being a student! Where gaining knowledge is top priority and partying follows closely behind. The majority of your time in higher education will be spent moaning about lectures, then about exams and assignments, and then about how broke you are every month. Luckily this fully illustrated manual is here to solve your everyday dilemmas, with low-budget tips and tricks on all aspects of student living, including:- Ways to make your student loan stretch further - Tips to help you get out of bed in time for class - Study, exam and revision hacks, including how to listen to your lectures in half the time - How to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew - and how to get wine stains out of the carpet - A trick for changing those pesky duvet covers - How to store your beer bottles in the fridge without them toppling over - Drawer and wardrobe space maximizers - Party hacks - Food and drink hacks to use up leftovers and make the most of whatever's hiding in your fridge Whether you're a fresh-faced fresher or a seasoned student searching for shortcuts, this trusty guide will be your go-to for all occasions, helping to make your student years gloriously hassle-free.

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Book SynopsisStudents need to learn to manage their time, organise their studies, understand, learn, and convey a lot of information - and they need to learn to do it quickly.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Study Skills Basics. Chapter 1: Planning for Success. Chapter 2: Tutors and Student Support. Chapter 3: Becoming a Critical Thinker. Chapter 4: Embracing ICT Skills. Part II: Becoming an Active Learner. Chapter 5: Learning Actively in Lectures, Seminars and Tutorials. Chapter 6: Grappling with Group Work: Workshops, Seminars and Presentations. Chapter 7: Taking Notes During Lectures. Chapter 8: Making Use of Feedback. Part III: Gathering Your Evidence. Chapter 9: Research Methods and Tools. Chapter 10: Finding Answers: Reading and Research. Chapter 11: Taking Notes for Your Purposes: Not the Book's. Chapter 12: Using the Internet as a Research Tool. Chapter 13: Tackling the Building Blocks: Numbers and Figures. Part IV: Getting It Down on Paper. Chapter 14: Pulling Your Ideas Together in Writing. Chapter 15: Grasping Writing Process Basics. Chapter 16: Looking at Form, Function and Style. Part V: Final Reckoning: Surviving (And Enjoying) Exams. Chapter 17: Mastering Memory Strategies. Chapter 18: Preparing for Your Exams. Chapter 19: Coping with the Countdown to Your Exams. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 20: Ten Time-saving Techniques. Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Have Fun While Studying. Chapter 22: Ten Essay Writing Tips. Index.

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Book SynopsisDynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes underlying human skill acquisition. It presents the ecological dynamics multidisciplinary framework for designing learning environments that foster skill development.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Athletes and Sports Teams Considered as Complex Adaptive SystemsChapter 2. Physical Constraints on Coordination: Dynamical Systems TheoryChapter 3. Informational Constraints on Coordination: An Ecological Psychology PerspectiveChapter 4. Intentionality, Cognition, and Decision Making in SportChapter 5. Understanding the Dynamics of Skill AcquisitionChapter 6. How Interacting Constraints Support a Nonlinear PedagogyChapter 7. Redefining Learning: Practical Issues for Representative Learning DesignChapter 8. Designing Individualized Practice EnvironmentsChapter 9. Practice for Sports TeamsChapter 10. Modified Perceptual Training for AthletesChapter 11. Practitioners as DesignersChapter 12. Expertise and Talent Development in Sport

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Book SynopsisSouth Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the central orthodoxies of development economics, using his creative thinking skills to shine new light on an old topic. Creative thinkers are often distinguished by their willingness to challenge received ideas, and this is a central aspect of Chang’s work on development. Before Chang, the received wisdom was that developing countries needed the same kinds of economic policies and institutions as developed countries in order to enjoy the same prosperity. But, as Chang pointed out, the historical evidence showed that First World economic success was, in fact, due to exactly the kinds of state intervention that modern development orthodoxy shuns. Western affluence is the product of precisely the kinds of state control – of protectionism and the setting of price tariffs – that developed countries have since denied the developing world in the name of economic freedom and ‘best practice.’ By insisting that Third World nations should adopt these economic policies themselves, argued Chang, the West is actually stifling Third World economic prospects – kicking away the ladder. His carefully reasoned argument for a novel point of view was closely based on the critical thinking skill of producing novel explanations for existing evidence, and led many to question development orthodoxies – sparking a rethink of modern development strategies for less-developed countries.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who is Ha-Joon Chang? What does Kicking Away the Ladder Say? Why does Kicking Away the Ladder Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume in a series of course books for career students and exam candidates preparing for the Stage 1 exam of the British Horse Society.

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