What is a University?

Carnforth: Gressingham Press, 2006. Paperback. New. This short booklet is meant to smooth the path of undergraduate students, perhaps unsure of what is expected of them, and how to gain maximum benefit from their academic years What is a college; a university? What goes on within the walls? The provision here of a basic vocabulary will make academic studies more accessible for all. New students, despite their early acquisition of the practical skills of notetaking, essay writing and so on, enter a wide, and possibly forbidding, territory. So, the attempt here is to offer a broad view, a conspectus of things academic. Presented in four main parts - Study Style; Study Management; Study Patterns and Study Outputs - this provides an essential frame-of-reference to the structures, processes and objectives of academic study at university level. An informative and useful guide to both new students, and those involved in staff development or induction courses. Reviewer's Quotes: 'The move from school or access course into tertiary educationis often a shock. Not only does the student usually have to confront a move away from home (and often for the first time), but also experience new circumstances and new people. She or he has to adapt to new ways of handling ideas, learning new 'facts' and how to construct an argument that is their own. This is no easy transition. Eric Liggett's 'What is a University?' attempts to help the student prepare for the transition into academic study. I particularly liked the ways in which the book introduces and defines complex terms that academic lecturers include without considering just how rare these terms are. The book also serves as an introduction to some of the deeper issues behind the philosophy of science and the nature of learning.' - Professor Charles Lewis, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom. 'Good advice, practical wisdom, attractively dispensed. A first-rate student vade mecum. Humour welcome and always apposite.' - Professor Marshall Walker, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Contains 78 pages, 21 x 15cm, with 17 figures and full index. This is a New item in New/Mint condition.