Essential Study Skills

Tom Burns, always interested in theatre and the arts and their role in teaching and learning, led the Hainault Action Group setting up adventure playgrounds and devising Community Events and Festivals for the local community. Whilst still a student Tom set up and ran the first International Dario Fo Festival – with symposium, theatre workshops for students and local people and full dramatic performances by the Fo-Rame theatre troupe of The Tiger’s Tale and The Boss’s Funeral.   Tom Burns is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Learning Development actively involved in the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (www.aldinhe.ac.uk). Some time ago he, along with Sandra Sinfield, developed the student-facing Study Hub (www.londonmet.ac.uk/studyhub) and the staff-facing Take5 website and blog (http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/epacks/take5/), the latter offering engaging and innovative learning, teaching and assessment practices to support staff with learning development work. Working in the Centre for Professional and Educational Development at London Metropolitan University, she continues to develop learning, teaching and assessment innovations with a special focus on engaging praxes that ignite student curiosity and develop power and voice. Sandra Sinfield has worked as a laboratory technician, a freelance copywriter, an Executive Editor (Medicine Digest, circulation 80,000 doctors) and in the voluntary sector with the Tower Hamlets Research and Resource Centre and with the Islington Green School Community Play written by Alan, Whose Life is it Anyway?, Clarke and produced at Sadler′s Wells.   Sandra is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Learning Development actively involved in the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (www.aldinhe.ac.uk). Some time ago she, along with Tom Burns, developed the student-facing Study Hub (www.londonmet.ac.uk/studyhub) and the staff-facing Take5 website and blog (http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/epacks/take5/), the latter offering engaging and innovative learning, teaching and assessment practices to support staff with learning development work. Working in the Centre for Professional and Educational Development at London Metropolitan University, she continues to develop learning, teaching and assessment innovations with a special focus on engaging praxes that ignite student curiosity and develop power and voice.

THE STARTER KIT
Introduction
How to Learn, How to Study
Make University Positive
SURVIVAL KIT
How to Survive Academic Reading
How to Make the Best Notes
How to be Creative and Visual in Your Learning
How to be Analytical and Critical
How to be Reflective
How To Get On In Groups
How to Harness a Digital You
THE BIG ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT: CRACKING ASSESSMENT
How to Make Sense of Your Course
Probably the Most Important Thing on Writing You’ll Ever Read
The Ten Step Approach to Better Assignments
How to Reference and Avoid Plagiarism
THE BIG ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT: ASSESSMENTS - HOW TO EXCEL
How to Write Great Essays
How to Produce Excellent Reports
How to Deliver Excellent Presentations
How to Run Your Own Seminars and Workshops
How to Write a Brilliant Dissertation
How to Revise for and Pass Exams
THE EMPLOYABILITY KIT
PDP and HEAR: Knowing Who You Are, Becoming Who You Want to Be
How to Move On… and Get that Job