How to Succeed in Your Social Science Degree

This book takes a clear-eyed approach to the challenges of university life, offers realistic advice and demonstrates how to acquire transferable skills with a view to future employability. All of the basics are here: how to maximize your academic performance, how to develop powers of expression, how to analyze data, what to do and what to avoid when writing a dissertation, what to do to make sure that university life brings the best employment prospects, how to acquire the skills and performance that tutors value, how to know what employers want. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style by experienced teachers, this book offers students the perfect one-stop guide to making their university study experience count.

About the Author:
Hilary Arksey is Senior Research Fellow in the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York

About the Author:
David Harris is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth