About the Author
Peter Levin is an educational developer at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.
Table of Contents
The strange world of the university. READ THIS FIRST!
Introduction
Part One: Getting started
1 ‘Im a slow reader
2 Three stages in academic learning
3 Coping with monster reading lists
Part Two: Reading purposes and strategies
4 What are you reading for?
5 Making notes and translating ‘academic-speak
6 Exploratory reading: How to summarize a publication
7 Dedicated reading: How to make the material ‘yours
Part Three: Targeted reading
8 The principles behind targeted reading
9 How to identify key terms
10 How to scan a book
Part Four: Writing essays
11 Discovering whats wanted from you
12 How to clarify your topic
13 Thinking it through: a note on methodology
14 An all-purpose plan
15 Using quotations
16 The writing process
Part Five: Referencing systems
17 Using and citing sources
18 Which system to choose?
19 Recording details of your sources
Part Six: Plagiarism and collusion
20 The conscientious students predicament
21 How academic learning forces you to plagiarize
22 Avoiding accusations of plagiarism
23 The politics of plagiarism