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Communication Skills Toolkit: Unlocking the Secrets of Tertiary Success
This concise, practical and easy-to-read toolkit covers a broad range of valuable communication skills and literacies to help you achieve academic success, no matter which discipline you study. This toolkit is full of examples of other students' successful communication efforts, tips and warnings for better communication, and activities to develop your own communication skills.
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236 pages, Paperback
First published February 23, 2010
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November 20, 2014
Pompous, condescending and almost entirely without value. The tips in this book range from the blindingly obvious to things that are covered repeatedly throughout primary and secondary education, with the only exceptions being the university-specific research skills generally covered by lecturers in introductory level classes. The information given about websites and the internet in general is either outdated or inaccurate and the authors seem to be aware of modern technology only at second-hand and make the bizarre assumption that modern students will not be doing the majority of their work on computers.
The only reason I bought this book was that it was a required textbook in Curtin University's humanities department; Grellier is the Communication Skills Coordinator of the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin and Goerke is the Manager for Course Review in the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education). Must be nice to be able to write a book and then every year force a whole lot of people to buy it for $50.
I'd recommend not buying this book even if it's listed as a mandatory textbook. There's probably nothing in here you don't know, and anything of value here is the same basic tips that can be found in any guide to study skills, many of which can be obtained for free.
Oh, and I find it ironic that authors who use at least one exclamation mark per page are offering advice on how to write well.
The only reason I bought this book was that it was a required textbook in Curtin University's humanities department; Grellier is the Communication Skills Coordinator of the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin and Goerke is the Manager for Course Review in the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education). Must be nice to be able to write a book and then every year force a whole lot of people to buy it for $50.
I'd recommend not buying this book even if it's listed as a mandatory textbook. There's probably nothing in here you don't know, and anything of value here is the same basic tips that can be found in any guide to study skills, many of which can be obtained for free.
Oh, and I find it ironic that authors who use at least one exclamation mark per page are offering advice on how to write well.
February 4, 2012
Clearly presented, comprehensive, sound advice on dealing with a range of academic requirements.
My one reservation: it proceeds from the base assumption that all University entrants are fairly naive or stupid (e.g. that they don't know you can't use textspeak in an essay, that they have learned nothing from high school English expectations), which wears thin after a while, but on the other hand that may well reflect a degree of real-world experience on the authors' part - who knows. I'm assuming they had good reason to do it, anyway, as visible thought is evident in the writing, explanations, and examples used.
A good guide to the sort of fiddly, fussy, farting-about that ensures you pass when tutors are looking at form rather than content. And I mean that in a good way. I'd call this a keeper.
My one reservation: it proceeds from the base assumption that all University entrants are fairly naive or stupid (e.g. that they don't know you can't use textspeak in an essay, that they have learned nothing from high school English expectations), which wears thin after a while, but on the other hand that may well reflect a degree of real-world experience on the authors' part - who knows. I'm assuming they had good reason to do it, anyway, as visible thought is evident in the writing, explanations, and examples used.
A good guide to the sort of fiddly, fussy, farting-about that ensures you pass when tutors are looking at form rather than content. And I mean that in a good way. I'd call this a keeper.
August 21, 2013
Excellent guide for life at Uni and in particular, writing essays. Should be compulsory for all Year 1 students. Well written with personality, it was like having a lecturer on tap.
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