Kickstarting Your Academic Career: Skills to Succeed in the Social Sciences [Pehme köide]

This book is an excellent guide to helping students navigate their new academic environment and expectations. From understanding professors to decoding social science research, this text provides solid advice that is easy to understand but does not underestimate a student's intelligence. -- Dan Friedman, University of South Carolina A guidebook for first-year students that effectively focuses on the basics they need to know sooner rather than later. This is the kind of resource that can make a big difference to students when they transition out of high school. -- Victor Asal, University at Albany, SUNY Kickstarting Your Academic Career explains how courses work at college and university, and provides concrete strategies for students to be successful. Best of all, the authors strike a great tone throughout-kind of like an older sibling explaining what it's really like after high school. -- Kerry Greer, University of British Columbia