Study Skills Lecture 1: Introduction to the course

 

1. Reading English

1.1 We like it

1.2 The usefulness of Jane Austen

1.3 Skills

1.4 Motivation

 

2. Study Skills in the First Year English Literature Course

2.1: The Texts in Contexts course

2.2 The Theories and Methodologies Lectures

2.3 The Study Skills Course

 

3. Study Skills in detail

3.1 The Study Skills Projects

3.2 The First Study Skills meeting

3.3 Small group work

3.4 The presentation

3.5 How much work?

3.6 The second tutor meeting

3.7 The third tutor meeting

3.8 Next semester

 

4. Lectures and Skills

4.1 Working in groups

4.2 Making presentations.

4.3 Library skills

4.4 Essay writing

4.5 Computers

4.6 How to be a complete idiot

4.7 Getting on the Web

 

5. Note taking

5.1 What students in English do: interpretation and evaluation

5.2 Chunk = quote + idea.

5.3 Quote + reference

5.4 Reading interactively

5.5 No short cuts

5.6 The shorthand notebook

5.7 Other kinds of notes