Business Student's Handbook
Skills for Study & Employment
4th edition

By Sheila Cameron
October 2007
Pearson Education
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780132349246
464 Pages, Illustrated
$95.00 paper original

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The Business Student’s Handbook integrates study skills, interpersonal skills and work skills to help students gain better marks in their study and to transfer those skills into assets in the workplace.

It covers the key issues for today’s students, such as critical thinking & analysis, reflective practice & logic and plagiarism to ensure they’re fully equipped prepared for success.

Contents

Brief contents

Detailed contents

List of figures

Guided tour

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1        Learning: context, process and management

1        Learning, skills and employment 

2        Managing your studies

3        Learning and reflective practice

 

Part 2        Study skills

4        Critical reading and note taking

5        Basic numbers

6        Written communication

7        Using information and communication technologies

8        Gaining great marks

 

Part 3        Working with others

9        Talking and listening

10      Team working and leadership

11      Presenting to others

 

Part 4        Conceptual skills

12      Complexity, cases and diagrams

13      Obtaining data and information

14      Making sense of data

15      Increasing your creativity

 

Part 5        Integrating your skills

16      Managing projects

17      Into employment

 

Bibliography

Index

Features

• Study skills such as essay writing, exam technique and managing one’s studies.
• Interpersonal skills such as teamwork, communication and presenting.
• Work skills such as exploring problems, managing projects and improving creativity.
• Includes an extensive bank of text based and online exercises to address issues such as stress, time management and confidence so students can assess their strengths and build a personal development plan to improve on weaker areas.
• Checklists for essay planning, job application and interviews; exercises on how to deconstruct exam questions and work with case studies, and basic maths and grammar helpfiles for practice and reference.
• Activities are fully supported with resource materials and teaching notes for lecturers and both student and lecturer resources are available at www.pearsoned.co.uk/cameron

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