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8/14/2019 Making the Most Outline
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How to make the most of your
degree opportunity
Deena Ingham
Centre for Learning Excellence
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Aims of this session
Help you understand the opportunities open
to you and be prepared for the academic
challenges
Consider ways you can make the most of your
experience
Explore your assessment for this unit for this
week
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Prepare yourself for a shock or shocks
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Please raise your left hand if you are sitting
next to someone from a different country to
yourself
Show of hands please
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Please follow the instructions
Take a pen or a pencil
Take a piece of paper
Write your name
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Now - please follow these instructions
Take a pen or a pencil
Take a piece of paper
With your OTHER HAND write your name
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You just illustrated ulture sho k Loss of familiar cues
Breakdown of interpersonal communication
Identity crisis exaggerated by culturaldifferences
Weaver, 1993
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Counter the effects culture shock
Recognise the process
Develop action plans as coping strategies
Learn something new
Share your culture
Have realistic expectations
Develop skills to facilitate understanding,
communication & adaptation
Weaver, 1993
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Dont let academic culture shock stop
you achieving your goals
Prepare to.
Change rooms for
classes
Use a wide range of
sources for your writingParaphrase and write in
your own words
Work with others on
study tasks
Get involved in, or leadlearning
Write clearly andlogically
Speak out in classes Take notes in lectures
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Your assessment for this week
A 600-word essay called Maximising my
degree opportunity for all to be submitted
via Turnitin on your CSa Unit (Communication
Skills Unit by 23 October 2013 at 23:59.
This should be a personal essay so will be
written in the first person, and will
demonstrate use of language, punctuation,
grammar, understanding of evaluation etc.
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Where and how to start?
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Introduction
who you are, why you
are here - 50 words?
Body
Your hopes, goals, what you will
do to achieve maximum impact in
your degree Approx. 450 words
Conclusion
How you will evaluate and
review your progress
Approx. 100 words
ESSAY PLANNING
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What to put in your essay?
Learn from those who have been
where you are now
KANWAL FATIMA
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Take control
Participate
Make mistakes
Look back to see how far youve come andforward to see how far you can go now
Keep trying
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NY65zEcbwg
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Summary of this session
Help you understand the opportunities open
to you and recognise academic culture shock
Consider how you can make the most of your
experience
Outline your assessment for this unit for this
week and how to approach it
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andshare something with someoneelse every day too
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Thank you.
Make the most of the opportunities to
learn here@
deena ingham@beds ac uk