Awards

• Short-listed for PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Non-Illustrated Book 2013
• Shortlisted for PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Non-Illustrated Book 2013.

Overview

BA: An Insider's Guide is a practical, honest introduction to getting a great arts degree at university. Author Rebecca Jury has just emerged from the maelstrom of university study and offers her personal take on how to ace your BA. She introduces readers to everything from choosing courses (like putting together personalised gourmet sandwich), setting up a study space and doing part-time work, to turning up at lectures and tutorials and actually reading your 'readings'. In particular, she focuses on planning, work-life balance, study habits, succeeding at essays and exams, and sorting out a life after your degree. She offers 10 steps on how to make university a more rewarding and enjoyable experience. If you're not afraid to be a nerd, polish up your essays until they shine and master exam-taking techniques, Rebecca Jury suggests, you'll emerge from the university experience a better thinker, a more employable worker and a wiser person.BA: An Insider's Guide is an essential reader for all those considering study or about to embark on their arts degree. Among all the guides to essay writing and research for undergraduates, this book distinguishes itself by its coverage of the full range of student life, by its rootedness in recent experience at a New Zealand university and by its clear, engaging, personal style.

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9781869405779

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Reviews

Here is a small book you will need to have available for your senior students. – Steve Langley, English in Aotearoa The real success of this book will be in encouraging students to look for this positive attitude in themselves early in their university life – not right at the end – and the book explores a range of practical steps towards achieving this. – Steve Langley, English in Aotearoa BA: An Insider's Guide, is a holistic how-to manual that attempts to demystify the academic world while urging would-be graduates to, in short, get a grip on themselves. In doing so, they might just get a grip on a meaningful degree. – Otago Daily Times

Author Information

Rebecca Jury has a BA in English and Mass Communication from the University of Canterbury, graduating in 2008 with an A+ average. Since then she has worked as a university tutor, a youth counsellor and a high school teacher. BA: An Insider's Guide, her first book, has its origins in a small study skills leaflet she made to help her fellow university students.

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