Richard Palmer is Head of English at Bedford School. His other Routledge titles include The Good Grammar Guide, and Write in Style.

• Part 1: Naming It 1. Preliminary: Why Real Achievers Don’t Do Drugs 2. Situation Report 3. The Importance of the Pleasure Principle 4. Seductive Stupidities: Those ‘S’ Words Revisited 5. Conclusion Part 2: Using It 6. Arming Yourself 7. Knowing Yourself 8. Advancing Yourself Part 3: Sorting It 9. Respecting the Obvious 10. Going Beyond the Obvious 11. Conclusion Part 4: Nailing It 12. What is Knowledge? 13. What Types of Knowledge Are There? 14. Common Fallacies / Disreputable or Specious Arguing 15. Justifying Your Thinking (1): Good Reasons 16. Justifying Your Thinking (2): Good Instincts 17. Conclusion Part 5: Doing It 18. Preliminary 19. Eyes Right: Speed-Reading 20. Eyes Wrong: Screen-Reading 21. Note-Taking: Mini-Lecture Noting Exercise 22. Writing Part 6: Making It 23. Preliminary 24. Attitudes (1): Examiners – Monsters, Robots or Humans? 25. Attitudes (2): Priming Yourself 26. Revision and Review 27. In the Exam Hall 28. Conclusion

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Richard Palmer is Head of English at Bedford School. His other Routledge titles include The Good Grammar Guide, and Write in Style.

• Part 1: Naming It 1. Preliminary: Why Real Achievers Don’t Do Drugs 2. Situation Report 3. The Importance of the Pleasure Principle 4. Seductive Stupidities: Those ‘S’ Words Revisited 5. Conclusion Part 2: Using It 6. Arming Yourself 7. Knowing Yourself 8. Advancing Yourself Part 3: Sorting It 9. Respecting the Obvious 10. Going Beyond the Obvious 11. Conclusion Part 4: Nailing It 12. What is Knowledge? 13. What Types of Knowledge Are There? 14. Common Fallacies / Disreputable or Specious Arguing 15. Justifying Your Thinking (1): Good Reasons 16. Justifying Your Thinking (2): Good Instincts 17. Conclusion Part 5: Doing It 18. Preliminary 19. Eyes Right: Speed-Reading 20. Eyes Wrong: Screen-Reading 21. Note-Taking: Mini-Lecture Noting Exercise 22. Writing Part 6: Making It 23. Preliminary 24. Attitudes (1): Examiners – Monsters, Robots or Humans? 25. Attitudes (2): Priming Yourself 26. Revision and Review 27. In the Exam Hall 28. Conclusion

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Richard Palmer is Head of English at Bedford School. His other Routledge titles include The Good Grammar Guide, and Write in Style.

• Part 1: Naming It 1. Preliminary: Why Real Achievers Don’t Do Drugs 2. Situation Report 3. The Importance of the Pleasure Principle 4. Seductive Stupidities: Those ‘S’ Words Revisited 5. Conclusion Part 2: Using It 6. Arming Yourself 7. Knowing Yourself 8. Advancing Yourself Part 3: Sorting It 9. Respecting the Obvious 10. Going Beyond the Obvious 11. Conclusion Part 4: Nailing It 12. What is Knowledge? 13. What Types of Knowledge Are There? 14. Common Fallacies / Disreputable or Specious Arguing 15. Justifying Your Thinking (1): Good Reasons 16. Justifying Your Thinking (2): Good Instincts 17. Conclusion Part 5: Doing It 18. Preliminary 19. Eyes Right: Speed-Reading 20. Eyes Wrong: Screen-Reading 21. Note-Taking: Mini-Lecture Noting Exercise 22. Writing Part 6: Making It 23. Preliminary 24. Attitudes (1): Examiners – Monsters, Robots or Humans? 25. Attitudes (2): Priming Yourself 26. Revision and Review 27. In the Exam Hall 28. Conclusion

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