Reading at university : a guide for students / Gavin Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Thinking about reading and about yourself as a reader -- Pt. 2. Reading as a student -- Pt. 3. Developing your skills as a reader -- Pt. 4. Active reading: developing a relationship with texts and their authors -- Pt. 5. Deciding what to read -- Pt. 6. Reading and note taking -- Pt. 7. Reading and writing -- Pt. 8. Where to read and when? -- Pt. 9. Share your reading with friends -- Pt. 10. Reading your own work.

"As a student you will need to develop new skills and disciplines in many areas, and none of these is more important than reading, which will underpin most of your academic work. You will read to learn about your subject, and you will read in order to harvest information to use in writing assignments, projects and dissertations. But are you making the best, most efficient use of the time you devote to reading for academic purposes?" "Drawing on their experience both as students and as teachers, Gavin and Susan Fairbairn aim to change both the ways in which you read and the ways in which you think about your reading. Reading at University will help you to find the most effective ways of approaching your academic reading, guiding you in developing the skills and disciplines you need to do so."--BOOK JACKET.