Stella Cottrell Books

Focusing on enhancing student skills, this essential companion offers insights for lecturers and study skills advisors. It emphasizes creating supportive environments and covers key areas like induction processes and assistance for 'at risk' students. Practical guidance is provided on fostering interactive group skills, effective revision and exam strategies, as well as improving writing, memory, and critical analysis abilities.

This friendly, accessible guide provides international students with 50 practical 'Ways' to help them make the most of their experience overseas. Each of the 50 'Ways' in this book is a starting point, offering suggestions of things to do and think about, alongside opportunities to reflect on, choose and commit to new ideas and actions. Spanning the whole international student journey, it will help students to recognise potential challenges, connect with other students and take action that will prepare them for life after their study abroad adventure.This is an ideal resource for any student who wants to make the most of their time studying overseas.

Is Uni right for you - and which subject and Uni would suit you best? Through illustrations of student life and practical activities and discussion points, You2Uni helps you to make informed decisions about what is right for you, improve your academic skills, and develop skills for independent everyday life.

This book will inspire and motivate students to shape new habits and make effective use of time in their studies, work and everyday lives.

Bestselling author Stella Cottrell taps into her tried and tested formula for learning and brings students the essential guide to producing top-quality dissertations and project reports. The book breaks down this process into manageable chunks and covers everything from preparation and planning through to conducting research and writing up the finished article. Packed with dozens of hands-on activities and quotes from real students, this book demystifies dissertations and project reports and helps ensure that the process is an enjoyable and rewarding experience.This is an invaluable resource for students of all levels embarking on a dissertation, project report or other piece of extended writing. Its interdisciplinary approach means it is the ideal companion for students of all disciplines.

This highly practical book will inspire and motivate students to shape new habits and develop a winning approach to writing.

This practical book will inspire and encourage students to shape new habits and make stress-management a natural part of their everyday routine. It shows students how to recognise helpful and unhelpful stress, identify their stress triggers and develop coping mechanisms to ease and manage stress.

Provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It gives practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies. This fully updated, two-colour edition includes two brand new chapters.

This bestselling planner is the ultimate self-management tool for students. Formerly published as The Palgrave Student Planner , it contains everything students need to organise their information and time effectively, including study skills advice, week-to-view diary pages, habit trackers, personal finance guidance, timetables, useful contacts and websites, spelling rules, notes pages and much more. Now plastic-free, it features a handy card pocket at the back and a second elastic which can be used as a bookmark.An essential companion for students of all levels and subject areas in further and higher education.