Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of resources -- 1 Introduction and how to use this book -- Coverage -- Welcome -- Background -- Study skills, teaching and learning development -- How to use this book -- Essential Study Skills -- Finally -- 2 University teaching, widening participation and study skills -- Coverage -- Introduction - but is it 'education'? -- What is happening to university education? -- Management generation of strategy -- Widening participation -- Changing HE - the discourses of learning development -- Learning development and 'skills' -- HE and the skills agenda -- Resolution -- What can the HE practitioner do? -- Notes -- Bibliography and further reading -- 3 How to assess - a short preface on assessment -- Coverage -- Introduction -- Assessment per se -- How will I assess that? -- The changing HE environment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography and further reading -- 4 How to understand our students -- Coverage -- Our students -- WP students' expressed aims -- Attitudes to our students -- Self-perception -- Embedding learning development - helping our students succeed in HE -- Does HE orientation and learning development make a difference? -- Final comments -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography and further reading -- 5 How to promote an effective transition to HE -- Coverage -- Introduction -- Problematising HE not the student -- Choosing a university -- Supporting HE orientation -- Sixth-form and FE tutors and institutions -- HE tutors/institutions -- HE orientation - some things to consider -- More orientation: academic communities, teaching and learning practices and cultural capital -- Conclusion -- Resources -- Note -- Bibliography and further reading -- 6 How to promote student self-confidence -- Coverage -- Introduction -- Caught on the cultural cusp -- The non-traditional student in HE -- How we do it.

Overall conclusion -- Bibliography and further reading -- 7 How to promote effective organisation and time management -- Coverage -- Introduction -- How we do it -- Overall conclusion -- Resources -- Further reading -- 8 How to promote effective research and reading strategies -- Coverage -- Targeted research and active reading - and the reflexive student -- How we do it -- Overall conclusion -- Resources -- Further reading -- 9 How to promote effective note-making -- Coverage -- Introduction -- Notes and creative learning -- How we do it -- The practice lecture - note-making from lectures -- Resources -- Bibliography and further reading -- 10 How to promote effective presentations and seminars -- Coverage -- Why oral assignments? -- How we do it -- How to promote effective seminars -- Overall conclusion -- Resources -- 11 How to promote effective writing -- Coverage -- Introduction -- Changes in the HE environment -- Writing and learning development -- Embedding learning development - again -- How we do it -- Overall conclusion -- Resources -- Notes -- Bibliography and further reading -- 12 How to promote effective revision and exam techniques -- Coverage -- Introduction -- Exams - the feared event -- How we do it -- Overall conclusion -- Resources -- Note -- Bibliography and further reading -- 13 How to promote effective group work -- Coverage -- Introduction -- How we do it -- Overall conclusion - mourning the group -- Resources -- Note -- Bibliography and further reading -- 14 How to promote reflective practice -- Coverage -- Introduction -- Learning development and the learning log -- Model it first -- How we do it -- Personal development portfolios -- Overall conclusion -- Resources -- Notes -- Bibliography and further reading -- 15 How to promote overall success -- Coverage -- Introduction -- An embedded approach -- Conclusion.

Bibliography and further reading -- A: Bibliographic and online resources for 'HE orientation' -- B: EA199 An introduction to academic studies: reflecting, learning and communicating -- Resources -- Index.