
Communication Skills Guidebook
OUP Australia and New Zealand (Publisher)
Published on 6. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-19-030245-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Communication Skills Guidebook is a practical guide for students, full of the essential communication and study skills that will help them to do well at university. Covering all the skills that will be used across a degree, the book covers many useful topics including researching, writing, referencing, presentation skills, public speaking and succeeding in exams.
Students can read the book from front to back, look up particular topics as they need to, or use just one section they find useful. Each chapter is self-contained and deals with a different aspect of the skills necessary for both successful university learning and communication, assisting students to navigate through successful study at university.
Students can read the book from front to back, look up particular topics as they need to, or use just one section they find useful. Each chapter is self-contained and deals with a different aspect of the skills necessary for both successful university learning and communication, assisting students to navigate through successful study at university.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Melbourne
Australia
Publishing group
Oxford University Press Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-030245-0 (9780190302450)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Iain Hay is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Geography at Flinders University
Dianne Bochner is a retired lecturer in Communication Skills, Professional English and Literary Studies, Flinders University
Gill Blacket is the Electronic Collections and Services Librarian at Flinders University
Carol Dungey was an academic librarian who worked in a number of South Australian universities
Dianne Bochner is a retired lecturer in Communication Skills, Professional English and Literary Studies, Flinders University
Gill Blacket is the Electronic Collections and Services Librarian at Flinders University
Carol Dungey was an academic librarian who worked in a number of South Australian universities
Content
1. FINDING OUT: RESEARCHING; 2. WRITING UP: ESSAY WRITING; 3. ARGUING THROUGH: WRITTEN ARGUMENT; 4. STATING FACTS: PRESENTING RESEARCH FINDINGS; 5. WRITING WELL: LANGUAGE, SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS; 6. DOTTING 'I'S: USING PUNCTUATION CORRECTLY; 7. OWNING UP: REFERENCING; 8. SPEAKING OUT: PUBLIC SPEAKING; 9. TEAMING UP: WORKING IN GROUPS; 10. FACING UP: SUCCEEDING IN EXAMS