Academic Skills for Interdisciplinary Studies – Revised Edition : Revised Edition

Provides practical instructions, tips, and examples to help interdisciplinary undergraduate students develop essential academic skills needed for their curriculum, covering everything from searching and critically analyzing scholarly texts to formulating research questions and presenting findings.

What's a theoretical framework for? How do you effectively present your data in a figure? What's the secret to a good presentation?As an interdisciplinary student, you delve into theories and research methods from a whole range of disciplines. Academic skills are the tools that you can use to take in, develop, integrate and question knowledge. This guide provides specific instructions, tips and examples to help students develop these skills, both during and after their studies. As academic education focuses on research, the empirical cycle forms a key theme of the book, including when discussing the following skills:Searching for, critically reading and analysing scholarly textsFormulating research questionsMaking concepts measurable, qualitatively and quantitativelyOrganizing literature and dataAnalysing and formulating an argumentAcademic writingCollaboratingReflectingPresentingThis handbook offers practical instructions, tips, and tricks that help undergraduate students to develop the skills needed for an interdisciplinary curriculum.