Reading at University

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This concise and practical text will equip students with the effective reading strategies they need when preparing for their university assessments. It dispels assumptions often made about the nature of reading at university, and provides an overview of the culture of academic reading, note-making, and what markers expect. This text provides support for reading structured around the process of crafting an assignment, including reading critically and developing an academic voice. 

Dispels a number of dubious assumptions that students hold about university reading

Helps students to understand the different types of texts they will encounter at university

Provides a range of strategies that students can use to understand their field of study, particular texts and the relations between texts

Helps readers to speed up their reading, as well as read in a more focused and slower way, depending on what’s needed

Shows students how to make notes

For the majority of students at university – particularly students of humanities, business and social sciences, academic reading is by far in a way the most labour-intensive academic process. However, many students receive very little support about things they could do to read more efficiently and effectively. Much support at university is focused upon writing, but students need to have consulted enough sources and made sense of the content in order to write high-quality assignments.

This concise and practical text will equip students with the effective reading strategies they need when preparing for their university assessments. The book:

·         dispels a number of dubious assumptions that students hold about university reading

·         helps students to understand the different types of texts they will encounter at university

·         provides a range of strategies that students can use to understand their field of study, particular texts and the relations between texts

·         helps readers to speed up their reading, as well as read in a more focused and slower way, depending on what’s needed

·         provides worked examples of how reading features in the research and writing process by analysing how readings feature in (1) an essay and (2) a literature review

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Jamie Q Roberts

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