This book takes a clear-eyed approach to the challenges of university life, offers realistic advice and demonstrates how to acquire transferable skills with a view to future employability. All of the basics are here: how to maximize your academic performance, how to develop powers of expression, how to analyze data, what to do and what to avoid when writing a dissertation, what to do to make sure that university life brings the best employment prospects, how to acquire the skills and performance that tutors value, how to know what employers want. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style by experienced teachers, this book offers students the perfect one-stop guide to making their university study experience count. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Hilary Arksey is Senior Research Fellow in the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

About the Authors	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1
Part 1 University Life and Employability	9
1 Starting Off	11
2 How Students See It	35
3 What Do Tutors Want?	55
4 What Do Employers Want?	81
Part 2 Maximizing Your Performance	99
5 Writing Skills	101
6 Verbal Skills	134
7 Starting Your Dissertation	150
8 Collecting the Data	165
9 Data Analysis and Writing Up a Dissertation	189
10 Pulling It All Together	209
Afterword	222
References	233
Index	240

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