A few months ago I reviewed a book Study Skills for Science, Technology and Engineering Students. While I couldn’t fault the authors on the content or their good intentions to pass on useful information gleaned from years of experience of giving students advice, it reminded me of a book I once used as a student [...]
This review was written for the HEA Physical Sciences Centre Reviews publication, Vol 20, No. 1. The entire issue can be downloaded from their website, and my review is posted below.
This book presents the topic of study skills to both students and tutors in science and engineering topics. Students are encouraged to [...]
How to Write a Lot, Paul J Silvia, APA Washington, 2007.
This is a great little book. Apart from its content and central message (which is obvious), I love the style. There are no boxed asides, no “Top Ten Hits from the Best Writers“, no planning charts, or any other visual false idols, which make [...]
Gilly Salmon and Palitha Edirisingha (eds), SRHE/OU Press 2008, reprinted 2009.
I really liked this book, or at least the parts that I read. As with anything by Gilly Salmon (or Gill e-Salmon as I like to write her), it is pragmatic for the practitioner but based in research, without the research being [...]
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