The Media and Communications Study Skills Student Guide
About this ebook
Based upon many years of teaching study skills and hundreds of lecture slides and handouts this introduction covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards media and communications studies. As well as the mechanics of writing and presentations, the book also shows how students can work on and engage with the critical and contemplative elements of their degrees whilst retaining motivation and refining timekeeping skills.
Of course the nuts and bolts of reading, writing, listening, seminars and the dreaded dissertation and essays are covered too. In addition advice on referencing, citation and academic style is offered for those with concerns over English grammar and expression.
Aimed primarily at postgraduate students, there is significant crossover with undergraduate work, so this book will also prove of use to upper level undergraduate readers whether using English as a first or second language.
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About the author
Doug Specht (SFHEA) is Director of Teaching and Learning, School of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. He has taught for fifteen years across a range of sectors and countries. He now teaches primarily on digital media and communications at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. His teaching also includes teaching study skills across the School of Media and Communications and the School of Arts. He also works with staff to develop their teaching practice, contributing to MA courses in Higher Education. He holds a PGCE, TESOL, and an MA in Higher Education.
A Chartered Geographer, his research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artifacts, focusing on development issues, and he has written on this subject in numerous books and papers. He has also spoken on topics of data ethics and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board at Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and sits on BSi committee IST/36 Geographic Information, where he focuses on geographic data in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is the editor of the forthcoming book Mapping Crisis, and co-editor of the forthcoming book project The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technology and Society with Alexander Kent.
