BA
An Insider's Guide
$24.00
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2012
Summary
BA: An Insider’s Guide is a practical, honest introduction to getting a great arts degree at university. Author Rebecca Jury has just emerged from the maelstrom of university study and offers her personal take on how to ace your BA. She introduces readers to everything from choosing courses (like putting together a personalised gourmet sandwich), setting up a study space and doing part-time work, to turning up at lectures and tutorials and actually reading your ‘readings’. In particular, she …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869405779 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1869405773 |
| Author: | Rebecca Jury |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 140mm x 4mm |
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Critics Review
Here is a small book you will need to have available for your senior students. – Steve Langley, English in Aotearoa
The real success of this book will be in encouraging students to look for this positive attitude in themselves early in their university life – not right at the end – and the book explores a range of practical steps towards achieving this. – Steve Langley, English in Aotearoa
BA: An Insider’s Guide, is a holistic how-to manual that attempts to demystify the academic world while urging would-be graduates to, in short, get a grip on themselves. In doing so, they might just get a grip on a meaningful degree. – Otago Daily Times
About The Author
Rebecca Jury
Rebecca Jury has a BA in English and Mass Communication from the University of Canterbury, graduating in 2008 with an A+ average. Since then she has worked as a university tutor, a youth counsellor and a high school teacher. BA: An Insider’s Guide, her first book, has its origins in a small study skills leaflet she made to help her fellow university students.
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