This outlines the strategies you need to “level up” your current processes in order to foster learning and retention of information in a new and rigorous environment, while also addressing topics that affect your experience outside of the classroom, such as financial literacy and career preparation.

In a rapidly changing world, The New Academic shows scholars how to be front and center in the public conversation, allowing more people to benefit from their knowledge and research.

The first comprehensive guide to writing for today’s world: a noisy environment where everyone reads what you write on a screen.

DataViz expert Scott Berinato provides all you need for turning those ordinary charts kicked out of a spreadsheet program into extraordinary visuals that captivate and persuade your audience and for transforming presentations that seem like a mishmash of charts and bullet points into clear, effective, persuasive storytelling experiences.

This essential guide expertly analyzes what graders are looking for across each of these standardized high school tests and then helps you swiftly and effectively meet their requirements.

A short, no-nonsense, reader-friendly bank of academic sentence templates. It was written for both graduate and undergraduate students who already know the basics of academic writing but may still struggle to express their ideas using the right words.

You'll learn how to outline your paper from top to down, how to develop your story, and how to think about what to write before you write it. You'll also learn how to deal with many issues that writers of science commonly face, from the fear of the blank page to dealing with critical reviews.

Notetaking is a major component in learning and understanding how to recognize and identify main ideas, key facts and details. Worksheets and practices are included in many of the chapters.

Your College Years deals with topics that help students know how to handle situations they’ll encounter during their college years. It addresses settling in and making new friends and it also deals with different types of college experiences such as living on campus versus commuting.

Written by the people who mark your essays, it will show you step-by-step how to write high-quality essays that will get you top marks.

Take advantage of all the resources available to you as you write your first research paper, from your university’s library databases to your local college center’s support services Develop common research paper writing techniques, including argumentation, research questions, and thesis statements

This practical guide will help anyone to make more effective presentations, whether in person or virtually, with less stress and more confidence.

This workbook has been designed to help you better understand what research is, how to do it (with activities to help you think about this in the context of your own research) and where you might start looking in the vast ocean of resources out there.

In this text you'll discover: Basic, necessary study skills; how to read with a purpose; how to focus on the main idea; How to overcome the challenges of technical texts; Ways to retain informationl tips for reading with ADD or other challenges.

This book’s overall goal is to educate readers about the college disability services system and to help students prepare for success at college.

Contains a self-assessment quiz, step-by-step guidance, top tips, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of the best sources of further help. It offers strategies to help you cope if things don't go to plan, and special sections on how to manage nerves and boost your message with your body language.

Weaving engaging storytelling with practical, actionable advice, this illustrates both productive and counterproductive approaches to achieving academic excellence, and highlight the importance of setting and attaining goals, nurturing strong relationships, developing resiliency, and more.