Filled with practical strategies for today's student, Making the Grade is an insightful, easy-to-use guide that will help readers develop the skills they need to excel at the university level. Classroom-tested and authored by an international team of experts, this text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the changing reality of the Canadian classroom. Suitable for students in any discipline, this current and comprehensive resource is essential reading for students at the start of their university careers and beyond.

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Dianne Bochner worked for many years in the English department at Flinders University, where she taught professional writing and communication skills as well as literary studies.

Carol Dungey is library site manager, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, South Australia, and former campus librarian at the University of South Australia.

Iain Hay is Australian Learning and Teaching Council discipline scholar for the arts, social sciences, and humanities and professor of geography at Flinders University, South Australia. He completed his PhD at the University of Washington as a Fulbright scholar and recently received a LittD from the University of Canterbury for over twenty years of post-doctoral work on geographies of domination and oppression. He is author or editor of ten books including Money, Medicine and Malpractice in American Society (Praeger, 1992) and Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography (Oxford, 2010). He is general editor of Springer's new 'International Handbooks of Human Geography' series and has had editorial roles with journals that include Applied Geography, Ethics, Place and Environment, and Social and Cultural Geography. In 2006, Iain received the Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year. He received the 2009 Taylor and Francis Award of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) and the inaugural Association of American Geographers' E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award in 2010 for 'outstanding contributions to the discipline of geography'. Iain is currently President of the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Nellie Perret received her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. She has been teaching Canadian university students for over thirty years with a particular emphasis on supporting diverse learning styles. Working closely with faculty, colleagues and students, she has developed and delivered a wide range of programming to promote students' academic success, including workshops and lectures on time management, reading and note taking, preparing for exams, dealing with perfectionism and procrastination, and developing strategies to improve memory and concentration.

"A major strength of Making the Grade is its comprehensiveness. I have not yet come across a one-volume published work that covers all the issues this book covers." --Reuben Gabriel, University of New Brunswick

"We liked the cleaner and more academic format. Many of the texts we reviewed were choppy, full of pictures and gimmicks, and they tended to convey the message 'this is high-schoolish'. We wanted something that appeared more 'serious'. We were also pleased with the careful attention paid to communication." --David Creelman, University of New Brunswick

"The writing style is the best I've encountered. No jargon, but not too simple either. Just right. The best skill sets text for university students on the market." --Robert L. Nelson, University of Windsor