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How to make the most of your

degree opportunity

Deena Ingham

Centre for Learning Excellence

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Aims of this session

Help you understand the opportunities open

to you and be prepared for the academic

challenges

Consider ways you can make the most of your

experience

Explore your assessment for this unit for this

week

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Prepare yourself for a shock or shocks

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Please raise your left hand if you are sitting

next to someone from a different country to

yourself

Show of hands please

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Please follow the instructions

Take a pen or a pencil

Take a piece of paper

Write your name

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Now - please follow these instructions

Take a pen or a pencil

Take a piece of paper

With your OTHER HAND write your name

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You just illustrated ulture sho k Loss of familiar cues

Breakdown of interpersonal communication

Identity crisis exaggerated by culturaldifferences

Weaver, 1993

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Counter the effects culture shock

Recognise the process

Develop action plans as coping strategies

Learn something new

Share your culture

Have realistic expectations

Develop skills to facilitate understanding,

communication & adaptation

Weaver, 1993

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Dont let academic culture shock stop

you achieving your goals

Prepare to.

Change rooms for

classes

Use a wide range of

sources for your writingParaphrase and write in

your own words

Work with others on

study tasks

Get involved in, or leadlearning

Write clearly andlogically

Speak out in classes Take notes in lectures

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Your assessment for this week

A 600-word essay called Maximising my

degree opportunity for all to be submitted

via Turnitin on your CSa Unit (Communication

Skills Unit by 23 October 2013 at 23:59.

This should be a personal essay so will be

written in the first person, and will

demonstrate use of language, punctuation,

grammar, understanding of evaluation etc.

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Where and how to start?

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Introduction

who you are, why you

are here - 50 words?

Body

Your hopes, goals, what you will

do to achieve maximum impact in

your degree Approx. 450 words

Conclusion

How you will evaluate and

review your progress

Approx. 100 words

ESSAY PLANNING

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What to put in your essay?

Learn from those who have been

where you are now

KANWAL FATIMA

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Take control

Participate

Make mistakes

Look back to see how far youve come andforward to see how far you can go now

Keep trying

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Summary of this session

Help you understand the opportunities open

to you and recognise academic culture shock

Consider how you can make the most of your

experience

Outline your assessment for this unit for this

week and how to approach it

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andshare something with someoneelse every day too

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Thank you.

Make the most of the opportunities to

learn here@

deena ingham@beds ac uk