Communications Toolkit

The Communications Toolkit contains practical advice, tips and strategies to enable you to develop the communication skills you need to be successful in your studies. This resource helps you make a successful transition to tertiary studies, develop effective research skills for your discipline, approach academic writing with confidence, refine your writing skills and enhance your face-to-face communication experience. The Communications Toolkit provides information on academic integrity and referencing, taking into account the changing nature of university communication including recent text-types such as blogs, twitter, digital articles, online research questionnaires, presentation formats and Turn-it-in. Additional examples of online students' communication work and additional coverage of the communication challenges students face when going to university via an online channel are included.

List of contents

Part 1 Transitioning to tertiary studies
1. Making the transition
2. Online learning

Part 2 Research skills
3. Identifying and evaluating appropriate resources
4. Reading scholarly texts, both written and recorded 
5. Referencing and academic integrity

Part 3 Academic writing
6. Approaches to writing
7. Reflective writing
8. Report writing
9. Academic essay writing
10. Some other tertiary genres

Part 4 Refining your writing
11. Two principles of good academic writing
12. Grammar, punctuation and spelling

Part 5 Face-to-face communication
13. Interpersonal skills
14. Intercultural communication
15. Teamwork
16. Presentations
17. How far you’ve come!

About the author

Jane Grellier had coordinated the Communication Skills program in the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture at Curtin University since 2000. She began working life as a secondary English teacher, and then worked as a curriculum developer and educational writer in the fields of English and literacy. The Communication Skills program Jane coordinated was offered to 1600 students – mainly first-year students – in three divisions of the university in order to develop the skills they will need for success at university: skills in information literacy, academic writing, oral presentations and teamwork. Jane's research interests included the teaching of writing and discipline-specific literacies.Graduating from post-graduate Education studies at the University of Western Australia in 2004, Katie Fielding has been involved in education since 2005. Beginning her career as a secondary English classroom teacher, she also served as a Head of House and Head of Learning Area (English) during her time at Western Australian secondary schools. During this time, Katie completed a Master of Education at the University of Western Australia, focusing her final dissertation on the use of Information Communication Technologies in the English learning area. Katie later expanded her involvement in education by working on various projects for the School Curriculum and Standards Authority, particularly in the area of senior and middle years English curriculum support materials and standards setting. She has been involved in WACE examinations for both English and Literature for many years and has been teaching Communications and Education units at Curtin University in Western Australia, both on-campus as well as online since 2014. Most recently, Katie’s work has focused on academic integrity as universities navigate the ‘choppy seas’ of artificial intelligence.After graduating from post-graduate Education studies at the University of Western Australia in 2004, Katie Fielding has been involved in education since 2005. Beginning her career as a secondary English classroom teacher, she also served as a Head of House and Head of Learning Area (English) during her time at Western Australian secondary schools. During this time, Katie completed a Master of Education at the University of Western Australia, focusing her final dissertation on the use of Information Communication Technologies in the English learning area. Katie later expanded her involvement in education by working on various projects for the School Curriculum and Standards Authority, particularly in the area of senior and middle years English curriculum support materials and standards setting. She has been involved in WACE examinations for both English and Literature for many years, notably having the role of Chief Marker for Literature since 2017. Katie has spent the last seven years teaching Communications and Education units at Curtin University in Western Australia, both on-campus as well as online, and she also supervises practicum students during their placements for the University of Western Australia.

Summary

The Communications Toolkit contains practical advice, tips and strategies to enable you to develop the communication skills you need to be successful in your studies.

This resource helps you make a successful transition to tertiary studies, develop effective research skills for your discipline, approach academic writing with confidence, refine your writing skills and enhance your face-to-face communication experience.

The Communications Toolkit provides information on academic integrity and referencing, taking into account the changing nature of university communication including recent text-types such as blogs, twitter, digital articles, online research questionnaires, presentation formats and Turn-it-in. Additional examples of online students’ communication work and additional coverage of the communication challenges students face when going to university via an online channel are included.

Product details

• Authors: Katie Fielding, Veronica Goerke, Veronika Goerke, Jane Grellier, GRELLIER GOERKE FIEL, Grellier Jane
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Languages: English
• Product format: Spiral bound
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780170452052
• ISBN: 978-0-17-045205-2
• Dimensions: 192 mm x 245 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 595 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, Study & learning skills: general, Economics, finance, business and management