Learning to Learn: Study Skills in English
Learning to Learn: Study Skills in English
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Go to cartISBN: 9788130932439
Bind: Paperback
Year: 2020
Pages: 208
Size: 153 x 229 mm
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Description:
Resulting from the authors? long experience in teaching and research, Learning to Learn helps learners at the undergraduate and postgraduate level acquire certain common and important study skills of independent learners. These include:
• Information Transfer
• Reference Skills
• Note-making
• Summarizing
• Dictionary Skills
• Examination Skills
• Literary Appreciation and
• Rules of Punctuation
These will equip learners to cope with their studies in an effective manner. Though the primary audience for this book is undergraduate and postgraduate learners, students from high school and intermediate levels can also benefit from it. The materials used in the book were trialled among students and proved to be effective. This book will not only fill the lack in school, college and university syllabi but also make the students autonomous and self-reliant.
Target Audience:
Undergraduate and postgraduate learners, students from high school and intermediate levels.
Contents:
Preface • Introduction
Section I: Study Skills
Chapter 1: Information Transfer • Sub-Skills of Information Transfer • Methods of Making Visual Presentation
Chapter 2: Note-Making • Sub-Skills of Note-Making • Techniques of Note-Making • Exercises
Chapter 3: Reference Skills • Using a Dictionary • Exercises • General References from a Book • Other References • Online Resources
Chapter 4: Examination Skills • Functions of Examination • Benefits of Examination • Misconceptions about Examination • Factors Affecting Performance Examination • Examination from Preparation to Execution • Exercises
Section II: Grammar and Vocabulary
Chapter 5: Basic Punctuation: Rules and Their Uses • Punctuation • Exercises
Chapter 6: Linkers • Linkers Used for Connecting Words or Sentences • Linkers Used for Making Comparison and Contrast Between Two or More Ideas • Linkers Used for Showing Cause and Effect • Linkers Used for Showing Sequence of Ideas in a Paragraph • Linkers Used while Concluding or Summarizing a Paragraph • Common Exercises on Linkers
Chapter 7: Word Formation • Affixation • Exercises Based on Both Prefix and Suffix • Compounding • Blending
Section III: Academic and Professional Writing Skills
Chapter 8: Literary Appreciation • Important Terms for Analyzing Literature • Exercise
Chapter 9: Summarizing • The Word and the Sword • Exercise
Chapter 10: Writing an Assignment? Brainstorming (Generating Ideas) • Organizing • Making Notes • Quotes and Documentation • Writing • Revision • Editing • Exercises
Chapter 11: Writing an E-mail • Advantages of E-mail • Composing an E-mail • Guidelines for Writing an E-mail • Some Important Features of E-mail • Some Do's and Don?ts of E-mail Writing • Exercises
Acknowledgements
About the Authors:
Anand Mahanand has been on the faculty of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, for more than sixteen years. Apart from his teaching and research at the University, he develops materials and designs syllabi for the learners and teachers of English. He has authored more than fifteen books and developed materials for EFLU, IGNOU and BRAOU. His major publications include English through Folktales (Viva Books), Real English (Viva Books), and English for Academic and Professional Skills (Tata Mac-Graw Hill). He is also a translator and bilingual poet.
Amit Kumar, B. Ed., PGCTE, M.Phil.(ELT) has done research in the field of Study Skills. He is pursuing his Ph. D. in English Language Education at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. His areas of research interest include English for Academic Purposes, Methods and Materials for Classroom Teaching and Collaborative Language Learning.
