Synopses & Reviews
This easy-to-use guide helps students to improve their time management skills. Focusing specifically on challenges posed within a higher education context, it provides practical advice for students at all levels. Concise yet effective, the book's informal style is supplemented by engaging illustrations.
Review
"Need more than 24 hours a day to do everything you need to? Time Management provides stressed-out students, faculty or staff with practical methods for effectively using time to accomplish vital tasks, while maintaining some semblance of a sane life. Anyone who needs help with time management should buy and read this book because 24 hours a day is rarely enough time." --Todd Campbell, North Georgia College & State University
"This book is a must have for any student attending university. It is easy to read, has funny illustrations that add to the message and great suggestions to try. Put this resource on your 'to do' list to buy before beginning that first semester!" --Kristi Frisbee, Pittsburg State University
"Project manage your course! This wonderful little book offers wise advice and hundreds of simple tips to make study fit into your life and still be productive." --Michael Webber, University of Melbourne, Australia
Synopsis
This easy-to-use guide helps students to improve their time management skills. Focusing specifically on challenges posed within a higher education context, it provides practical advice for students at all levels. Concise yet effective, the book's informal style is supplemented by engaging illustrations.
Synopsis
This pocket-sized guide provides students with practical advice and suggestions for successfully managing all aspects of their time while studying, from prioritising tasks to planning for individual assignments, group tasks and exams. Activities and self-assessments help students to identify how they learn best so that they can develop time management strategies that work for them.
Concise yet effective, this is an essential resource for any student looking to improve their time management skills. Ideal for self-study, it contains a section on troubleshooting for those looking for a quick-fix solution.
About the Author
KATE WILLIAMS manages Upgrade, the Study Advice Service at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has worked with students from Foundation to PhD and has written a range of books and materials on study skills. With experience of project management in both writing and editing, she is also the Series Editor for
Pocket Study Skills.
MICHELLE REID has worked as a Study Adviser at the University of Reading for over 3 years. As part of her varied role, she provides one-to-one study advice for students, teaches effective study practice workshops, offers consultation on embedded teaching in departments, and develops study guides and resources. As part of the research team involved in the LearnHigher Centre of Excellence of Teaching and Learning, Michelle contributed to research and resources on the learning areas of Time Management and Report Writing. She is a member of the Steering Group of the Association of Learning Developers in Higher Education, and currently chairs their working group on professional development. At Reading, Michelle has received team and individual awards for excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: PLANNING THE TERM / SEMESTER
PART 2: GETTING IT ALL DONE
PART 3: TROUBLESHOOTING
PART 4: THE BIGGER PICTURE AND WHAT NEXT...?