Mission Possible: The Study Skills Pack for Tutors & Teachers

Tutors and Teachers using the Pack
These sheets serve as ready-to-use handouts or overhead transparencies (OTs, also suitable as presentation slides), designed to neatly occupy just one or two sides of A4. You can access the pages on-screen or download them as photocopy-ready pdfs. There is some cross-referencing, but mostly the construction is free-standing and modular, facilitating a 'pick-and-mix' transfer into your particular course context. With teaching/lectures in mind, strong visuals are used wherever possible, to keep things easy on the eye. If some pages (or overhead transparencies) appear a little dense, please bear in mind there was a vast amount to communicate in a very small space: do feel free to reconfigure and cut-and-paste to your own taste. For this reason, once you have downloaded the pdfs to your own computer, you can alter and tailor the material as you require. When doing so, please refer to the Conditions of Use section. The materials are of course entirely free, but the usual courtesies of acknowledgement still apply. Finally, for tutors unable to deploy these materials in any systematic way (say, in a summer school or first-year module) please refer students to the site for self-directed study (see separate notes in the student section). Many of the handouts are suitable for independent access by students.

 

Contents:

What Kind of Writer are You? 'Five Writers'  

Presentation Skills

Answering the Question / Questioning the Answer

Memory / Study / Processing Notes

Managing Tasks / Making Presentations

Study Skills: a Summary

Miscellaneous Study Tools

The entire Study Skills Pack in PDF format

 

Things to watch out for .
Clearly, no format can meet every eventuality; I must leave it to each user to adapt, interpret or rewrite each item according to her specific needs. It is also understood that whenever my examples refer to a particular author or book (Byron's Don Juan, for instance, or the British Council/ Picador anthology New Writing 12), more pertinent texts of your own choice may be substituted. Please note when printing - some of these files contain a lot of graphics, so don't be disheartened if they take a while to print.

 

Conditions of Use
I am entirely happy for any of these handouts and exercises (or adaptations of them) to be copied and used for educational purposes, subject to the following conditions:

Please ensure each sheet or excerpt retains the copyright notation:
© Mario Petrucci 2005;

No idea, text or image may be reproduced or re-published in saleable form.

Use of ideas or material in articles, journal papers, etc requires the usual courtesy of acknowledgement.