Belbin, R.M. 1981
Management Teams
Oxford: Heinemann.
On the basis of a study of business management groups, R.M. Belbin argues
that a variety of different personalities are needed in a group if it is to
be effective. The names he gives to the group roles he describes are:
Chairman, Shaper, Plant, Monitor Evaluator, Resource-Investigator, Company
Worker, Team Worker and Finisher.
Adapted to Study Groups
Brooks, D. 1997
Web Teaching.
A Guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for the World Wide Web.
Plenum Press
A book for people designing web based education.
Chapters include:
2) Research on Teaching; Web Issues
4) Web-Ready Materials
8) Encouraging Web-based Discussion
9) Interactive Strategies; Forms
10) Promotion of Self-Regulated Learning
11) Creating and Managing Web Sites
12) Weblets, CD-Roms
Glossary
Software List
Brown, R., 1994/1995 Write Right First Time
Special Issue for Authors and Editors 1994/1995.
MCB University Press Limited Literati Club
This is about groups of science authors meeting to help one another
improve
the reports they write for journals. The idea is to anticipate the comments
the journal might make, so that the draft article is good enough to publish
before it is sent to the journal. ("Right First Time")
Students can use the same
techniques to help one another improve essay drafts.
The MCB University Press Limited Literati Club is a
web site
with papers and other features for people who write for the MCB Academic
Journals. Follow links like "Authors' Resources" until you come to How
to get Published, View articles available on-line which will help
you in the quest to get published.
Clanchy, J. & Ballard, B. 1992 (New Edition)
How to Write Essays. A Practical Guide for Students.
Longman. Australia
First published 1981 as Essay Writing for Students.
Chapters:
1) Clearing the ground,
2) Choosing the essay topic,
3) Reading for your essay,
4) Note-taking for essay writing,
5) Analysing and planning,
6) Drafting and redrafting,
7) Editing,
8) Assessment and follow-up
9) Writing reviews and reports,
10) Exam essays.
Clifton Press Study Skills Materials,
PO Box 100, Manchester, M20 6GZ.
Clifton
Press Weblink
Markets study skills books and computer software
written by Roy Johnson.
Computer software
You can buy disks for your own computer from Clifton Press, or use the
programs in many Universities, including the Language Centres at Middlesex
University.
English Language: an introduction to basics You can use
this as a self-directed tutorial, for reference, or as a HELP program
whilst using a word-processor.
Helpdisk! (Version 2.3: 1998)
Helpdisk! is an essay-writing program for every essay writer from
the sixth-former writing A level essays to the postgraduate writing a
thesis. It is a hypertext self-instruction course suitable for all subjects
in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
You can also borrow or buy a paperback called
Writing Essays
which has almost the same
content.
Roy Johnson's books, below, are all published by Clifton Press in A4
with card covers. They are all in Middlesex University library.
Johnson, R. 1991 (6th edition, 1996)
Writing Essays: Guidance Notes for Students.
This is arranged as short articles in alphabetical order.
Helpdisk!
is an electronic program based on the 6th
edition of this. "The contents are almost identical". It is easier to move
from term to term in the electronic program, but the book is easier to
carry around.
Johnson, R. 1993/1994
Revision and Examinations.
A 94 page guide to preparing for
exams and passing them successfully. Suggests ways to cope with various
types of examinations, to improve your self-confidence and overcoming
nerves and anxiety.
Johnson, R. 1993
Marking Essays: Guidance Notes for Tutors
Just because it is for tutors it does not mean students cannot read it.
Johnson, R. 1994/AtoZ
The A to Z of Writing Essays. Guidance Notes for
Computer-users.
This is arranged as short articles in alphabetical order.
It is an expanded version, for computer users, of
Writing Essays.
Johnson, R. 1994/study (2nd edition 1996)
Study Skills.
A 100 page guide to skills like concentration and memory, time
management, reading skills, producing ideas, clear thinking, and how to
write more fluently.
Johnson, R. 1995
Improve your Writing Skills. [808.042 JOH]
Emphasises careful planning and editing, rather than learning
grammatical rules, but gives plain English guidance on the essentials of
spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. Suitable for writers at any level, it
includes advice on how to produce ideas, how to write more fluently, and
how to improve the structure of what you write.
Johnson, R. 1996
Electronic Writing from Wordprocessors to the
Internet.[808.066005 JOH]
A user's guide to writing with computers, from the basic principles of
using wordprocessors to write essays - to communication on the internet and
writing web pages.