Patrick Sherratt

Passing Exams For Dummies (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Release your potential and get better exam results Do you panic at the thought of exams? Do you think you're just not the academic type? No matter how old you are, exams can be stressful--but they don't need to be. This essential guide provides expert tips on how to change your mindset, improve how you learn and revise, control your anxiety, and get good marks--whether you're studying at school, college, or university, or to advance your career. In Passing Exams For Dummies, you'll get hands-on, expert help to find out what motivates you and how you learn best; make your brain more receptive to incoming information and cope with exam pressure and anxiety; improve your reading style and condense your notes using visual mapping techniques; learn association techniques using memory pegs; use visualization to mentally and physically rehearse passing your exams; and more. * Fully updated to reflect new research in how the brain thinks, learns, and remembers * Information on the key role that astrocytes play in learning and the five key principles for rapid learning (attention, sensory input, solid effort, emotion and time sequence) that get these astrocytes engaged more quickly * Reworking of terminology used in the model of the mind to bring the book fully up to date and simplify the content If you're preparing for a school, college, university, or career-related exam, Passing Exams For Dummies has you covered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780730304432
• Artikelnr.: 39287040

Autorenporträt

Patrick Sherratt teaches and facilitates training in meta-cognitive knowledge and performance psychology. He holds a Masters degree in education and has written a number of educational resources for students, parents, and teachers.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on References ix Short Titles and Abbreviations x Introduction xii A 1
Address 1 Admiration and Wonder 5 Advancement 7 Ardor 10 Atheism 13 Atom 16
Attention 21 B 25 Barbarism 25 Beauty 27 Belief 31 Business 35 C 39
Conversation 39 D 43 Domestic 43 E 47 Economy 47 Enthusiasm 50 Expedient 54
Experience 57 F 61 Fortune 61 G 67 Genius 67 God 70 Grubstreet 75 H 79
Happiness 79 Humanity 85 I 89 Idea 89 Imagination 93 J 98 Judgment 98 L 102
Labor 102 Learning and Literature 106 Life 110 M 116 Machine and Engine 116
Man 120 Melancholy 123 Modern 126 N 130 National 130 Nature 133 News 139
Nice 142 Novel 144 P 148 Passion 148 Patriot 152 Philosophy 155 Pride 158
Primitive 163 R 168 Reason 168 Revolution 173 Romance 177 S 181 Savage 181
Science 184 Sensibility 188 Slavery 192 Society 195 Spleen 199 System 201 T
205 Truth 205 V 211 Virtue 211 W 218 War 218 Wit 222 Woman 225 World 229
Index 235

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List of Authors xvii

Chronology xix

Thematic Table of Contents xxvi

Introduction xxxvi

Editorial Principles xlv

Preface to the Fourth Edition xlvii

Acknowledgments xlix

Ballads and Newsbooks from the Civil War (1640-1649) 1

The World is Turned Upside Down (1646) 1

The King's Last farewell to the World, or The Dead King's Living Meditations, at the approach of Death denounced against Him (1649) 3

The Royal Health to the Rising Sun (1649) 6

from A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament (1649) 7

Number 288, 29 January-5 February 1649 7

from Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649) 8

Number 43, 30 January-6 February 1649 8

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) 10

from Leviathan (1651) 10

Chapter XIII: Of the NATURAL CONDITION of Mankind, as concerning their Felicity, and Misery 10

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) 14

from Hesperides (1648) 14

The Argument of His Book 14

To Daffodils 15

The Night-piece, to Julia 15

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home 16

Upon Julia's Clothes 17

When he would have his verses read 18

Delight in Disorder 18

To the Virgins, to make much of Time 18

His Return to London 19

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad 19

The Pillar of Fame 20

John Milton (1608-1674) 21

from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; Restored to the Good of Both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to Christian freedom, guided by the Rule of Charity. Wherein also many places of Scripture, have recovered their long-lost meaning. Seasonable to be now thought on in the Reformation intended. (1643) 23

Book I: The Preface 23

from Chapter I 26

from Chapter VI 26

from Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) 27

from Poems (1673) 44

Sonnet 18 (1655) On the Late Massacre in Piemont 44

Sonnet 19 (1652?) "When I Consider how my Light is Spent" 44

Sonnet 16 [To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652] 45

from Paradise Lost (1667) 45

The Verse 47

Book I 47

Book II 66

Book IV 91

Book IX 116

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) 145

Anacreontiques: Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of Anacreon 145

To the Royal Society 152

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) 157

from Miscellaneous Poems (1681) 158

The Coronet 158

The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers 158

Bermudas (1653?) 159

The Mower to the Glo-Worms (1651-2?) 161

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650) 161

The Garden (1651-2?) 164

On a Drop of Dew (1651-2?) 167

To his Coy Mistress (c.1645) 168

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) 170

from Poems and Fancies (1653) 170

Poets have most Pleasure in this Life 170

from The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World (1666) 171

John Bunyan (1628-1688) 179

from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) 179

John Dryden (1631-1700) 183

To My Honoured Friend, Dr Charleton, on his learned and useful Works; and more particularly this of STONE-HENGE, by him Restored to the true

Founders (1663) 184

Mac Flecknoe (1676?) 186

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem (1681) 192

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684) 217

To the Pious Memory

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"This is a magisterial anthology, skilfully selected and rigorously edited by Robert DeMaria, with crisp, authoritative explanatory material. The fourth edition of British Literature 1640-1789 retains the exciting openness of earlier editions to voices from the margins while intensifying its focus on the major authors and works as we teach them today." Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto

"Already the gold standard for this period, British Literature 1640-1789 keeps getting better. The range and inclusiveness of genres and authors is remarkable and inventive - no instructor will be at a loss for the canon or the non-canonical. In fact, this anthology helps reshape the canon. No such collection can ever be perfect, but this one comes as close to perfection as the form allows. Headnotes are superb and succinct, the layout and design eminently inviting to the eye." James Engell, Harvard University