Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns.Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic adv...

The fully updated fourth edition of the go-to guide for crafting winning essays for any type of graduate program or scholarship, including PhD, master’s, MBA, MD, JD, postdocs, DDS, DVM, Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright--you name it.Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students and graduate admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging and seemingly more impersonal application process...

Looking for a no nonsense approach to speed reading?Are you too busy to read as much as you would like? This book is for YOU!Do you love to read? Do you want to read even more? This book is for YOU!You don't even know how fast you read? This book is definitely for YOU!Would you like to quadruple your reading speed, in just 10 MINUTES?Then you need a miracle! No methodology can possibly have you quadrupling your reading speed in just minutes. That's no ...

Easily Learn Anything In The Most Effective & Time Efficient Ways Possible!Whether you want to (1) discover how to boost your ability to learn quickly and easily, (2) get better grades, or (3) learn world class strategies for test preparation, this book will teach you everything you need to know.Get the right tactics.

Being smart helps. Working hard helps more. But working effectively helps most of all.There's a great deal that research can now tell us about how to study effectively. For 20 years, I've been reporting on research into memory and learning, and explaining how these findings can be translated into practical advice. In earlier books, I have presented a lot of detail on strategies in specific areas: note-taking, mnemonics, practice and revision. In this guide, I attem...

Critical Reasoning & Philosophy has been praised as an innovative and clearly written handbook that teaches new philosophy students how to read, evaluate, and write in a critical manner. Concise, accessible language and ample use of examples and study modules help students gain the basic knowledge necessary to succeed in undergraduate philosophy courses, and to apply that knowledge to achieve success in other disciplines as well. With a reorganized presentation, fresh modules, new...

GCSE Maths Book 3 of 3 Shape, Space, Statistics and Probability (164 pages) provides a detailed study of shapes (their properties and measurement), statistics and probability . The book contains a wealth of worked examples and exercises accompanied by worked answers. The content material is appropriate for study from GCSE level (and upwards) in mathematics, statistics and probability.Polygons, Tessellation, Circle, Locus, Measure, Net, Trapezium Rule, Mid-ordinate Rule, Simpson's R...

The perspectives of children, teachers and professional writers are often absent in the pedagogy of writing. Highly Commended for the UKLA Academic Book Award 2013, Writing Voices: Creating Communities of Writers responds to such silent voices and offers a text which not only stretches across primary and secondary practice, but also gives expression to these voices, making a new and significant contribution to understanding what it means to be a writer.Drawing upon recent ...

Attract more customers and boost your sales!This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the freemium model, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Understand the different types of free offers given to customers and how they can be beneficial to a business• Implement the freemium business model into your business to grow your customer base

Child Observation for Learning and Research is an exciting new text, providing a thorough grounding in the methodology, practice and interpretation of observing children.The authors draw on their experience and expertise in childcare, education, social work and research to introduce the fundamental principles and process of observation, preparing you for your first observation and building knowledge and confidence through a wide range of scenarios and activities.Th...

Taking Control of Writing Your Thesis offers a clear account of the how, what, why and who of working together so that you can produce, finish and submit a successful thesis. Guccione is a Thesis Coach and Thesis Mentoring Programme Designer and is currently researching the barriers to thesis completion; Wellington has supervised and examined numerous dissertations at MA and doctoral level. They draw on these experiences throughout in providing you with expert guidance for your th...

What is it like to be a researcher or a scientist? For young people, including graduate students and junior faculty members in universities, how can they identify good ideas for research? How do they conduct solid research to verify and realize their new ideas? How can they formulate their ideas and research results into high-quality articles, and publish them in highly competitive journals and conferences? What are effective ways to supervise graduate students so that they can establish t...