Joan Turner is a senior lecturer and Head of the Language Studies Centre at Goldsmiths. She has a broad professional interest in language teaching and learning pedagogies, across the institutional contexts in which they are situated. Her specific research interests are in language and culture in higher education and she has published on intercultural communication, academic literacy, English for Academic Purposes, and conceptual metaphors underpinning rationality in the western academic tradition. Her latest book (under review for Multilingual Matters) is entitled: Languaging in the Academy.
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PART ONE: BECOMING AN ACTIVE LEARNER Routes to Learning Learning to Remember Managing Your Time PART TWO: ACADEMIC TASKS AND CONTEXTS Managing Assignments Getting to Grips with the Essay Making the Most of Reading Making the Most of Seminars and Seminar Presentations Getting to Grips with Examinations PART THREE: MINDING YOUR LANGUAGE Finding Your Academic Voice Disciplining Your Language Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar PART FOUR: MOVING ON AFTER UNIVERSITY Putting Yourself on the Job Market
`This book is a must-read for all students trying to grapple their way through and somehow 'finish college'' - Sharada Prahladrao, The Decan Herald