Audiobooks narrated by Aidan Moran

Aidan Moran (Author), Aidan Moran (Narrator)

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In this audio presentation you will learn how to improve your concentration skills. You will be taught techniques which will enable you to focus on what is most important in any situation while ignoring distractions. Concentration is a practical skill which can enrich our lives considerably. Unfortunately, most of us are probably more familiar with losing our concentration than with effective "focusing" ability. This recording will explore concentration in three stages. Firstly, it will explain what concentration is, show you how it's influenced by your attitudes and emotions, and give you some practical tips to improve your listening and reading skills. Secondly, it will help you to analyse and deal with common distractions in your life. Finally, it will present some practical "focusing" strategies which will help you to improve your concentration in a variety of daily situations.

Aidan Moran (Author), Aidan Moran (Narrator)

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Learn to Study

In listening to this recording, you are going to learn how to manage your own learning, and how to get down to studying. You'll receive practical tips on motivation, managing your study time, learning from lectures, listening and note-taking skills, improving your reading and summarizing skills, focusing effectively and improving your concentration. You'll be helped to remember and understand what you learn and you will be given practical tips on how to evaluate what you learn and think critically. You are also going to receive tips on planning and writing essays and papers, and finally you are going to be taught exam skills to help you to do your best when it matters most.

Aidan Moran (Author), Aidan Moran (Narrator)

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Exam Success: Getting down to studying, practical tips on motivation, remembering & understanding wh

Aimed at students in college and university, this new audio single "Exam Success" is taken from the bestselling album: "Learn to Study" by Professor Aidan Moran which teaches students the most important study skills for success at college and university. Like it or not, examinations play a crucial role in university life. They ensure quality control of degree standards, provide academic feedback to students and staff, and above all, assess your understanding of what you have learned from your studies. But exams don't test knowledge directly. They assess how well you can remember and explain what you know on the big day. Given this strategic challenge of exams, Aidan Moran will give you some practical tips on preparing for, and doing your best in, exams. The self-help approach provides advice and tips on areas such as; getting down to studying, practical tips on motivation, remembering and understanding, and exam skills; doing your best when it matters most.

Aidan Moran (Author), Aidan Moran (Narrator)

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Learning from Lectures: Learning from lectures, listening & notetaking skills, reading and summarisi

Aimed at students in college and university, this new audio single "Learning from Lectures" is taken from the bestselling album: "Learn to Study" by Professor Aidan Moran which teaches students the most important study skills for success at college and university. This audio will cover the areas of: Learning from Lectures, listening and note-taking skills, reading and summarizing skills, and focusing effectively - concentration skills. Since the Middle Ages, the lecture has been the most popular teaching method in universities. It's efficient, flexible and can be inspirational in the right hands. But taking good lecture notes is a very difficult skill for at least two reasons. First, because lecturers tend to speak faster than listeners can write, taking useful lecture notes can be difficult for some students. The problem here is that note-taking requires you to switch attention rapidly between listening and writing. And since you probably never received any training in this multi-tasking skill at school, it's not surprising that you may find yourself struggling to keep up with what the lecturer in saying in class. This problem is made worse by the fact that many students mistakenly believe that they have to write down every single word uttered by the lecturer during class - a false assumption that we call the sponge approach to learning. Research shows that top note-takers are highly selective in what they write - they sift what the lecturer says for the main ideas rather than trying to wrote down everything. The second difficulty that many students experience during lectures is a loss of concentration. This mental switch off happens mainly because it's difficult to stay alert during a lecture if you're sitting passively for a long period of time. When combined, these two problems make it difficult for students to get the most out of the lectures that they attend. And so, in this audio, I'll suggest some practical strategies that will help you to turn lecture attendance into an active learning experience rather than an empty ritual.

Aidan Moran (Author), Aidan Moran (Narrator)

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Writing Essays & Papers: Planning & writing essays and papers, evaluating what you learn and thinkin

Aimed at students in college and university, this new audio single "Writing Essays and Papers" is taken from the bestselling album: "Learn to Study" by Professor Aidan Moran which teaches students the most important study skills for success at college and university. No matter what subjects you are studying in university, you will be expected to write essays and academic papers as part of the requirements of your degree programme. These research assignments are valuable because they train you to focus your thinking on a topic, to write clearly, and to cite appropriate evidence to support your arguments. So, the purpose of this section is to provide some practical advice on planning, researching and writing academic essays and papers. Evaluating what you learn and thinking critically One of the biggest challenges that students face in coming to College is learning to think critically about what they read or are told. For centuries, the ability to think for oneself has been proclaimed as the main goal of a university education - the true mark of an educated mind. In keeping with this idea, a key theme of this audio presentation is that you have to become an active learner rather than a passive sponge in order to get the most out of your College experience. But critical thinking, or the skill of analysing evidence and arguments in order to form your own conclusions, requires hard work and special training. So, the purpose of this section is to provide some practical tips on how to develop your critical thinking skills. After I explain what thinking is, and what critical thinking involves, I'll give you a 6-step checklist of questions to ask every time you want to evaluate a theory or an idea.

Aidan Moran (Author), Aidan Moran (Narrator)

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Learn to Win at Golf: Doing Your Best When It Matters Most

This audio presentation is designed to help you to do your best when it matters most in Golf. In this recording Professor Aidan Moran will be helping you to learn to prepare properly, focus effectively, develop solid routines, deal with distractions, visualise success and cope with pressure situations on the course. In helping you to learn how to win at Golf, this recording focuses on the 'mental side' of golf. When all else is equal, it is often mental toughness that determines who wins.

Aidan Moran, James Gourley (Author), Aidan Moran, Emma Thurston (Narrator)

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Learn to Concentrate: For Business People, Students and Sports Performers

In this audio presentation you will learn how to improve your concentration skills. You will be taught techniques which will enable you to focus on what is most important in any situation while ignoring distractions. Concentration is a practical skill which can enrich our lives considerably. Unfortunately, most of us are probably more familiar with losing our concentration than with effective 'focusing' ability. This recording will explore concentration in three stages. Firstly, it will explain what concentration is, show you how it's influenced by your attitudes and emotions, and give you some practical tips to improve your listening and reading skills. Secondly, it will help you to analyse and deal with common distractions in your life. Finally, it will present some practical 'focusing' strategies which will help you to improve your concentration in a variety of daily situations.

Aidan Moran, James Gourley (Author), Aidan Moran, Emma Thurston (Narrator)

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Learn to Study: For Success at College and University

Going to College or University is an exciting yet daunting experience for many students. It's exciting because you can study interesting subjects, make new friends and pursue new hobbies in College. But it's also daunting because in order to get a successful academic education, you will have to accept personal responsibility for a task for which you have received little or no special training in school. This task requires you to manage your own learning or to become an active, independent and self-motivated student when it comes to planning, conducting and evaluating your academic work. For example, it's up to you whether you go to lectures in the first place. And it's up to you whether you spend your time studying in the library or going to the shops. And it's your business, not that of your lecturers, to make sure that you don't fall behind in your studies. Put simply, if you don't want your free time in College to become wasted time, you will have to master a number of study skills that were not taught in school. For example, you will have to learn to listen and write at the same time while taking lecture notes in class. And you'll have to learn to study effectively - or read with a question in mind. Of course, you'll also have to master the art of getting down' to study regardless of the mood you're in. But most of all, you'll have to learn to think for yourself - the true hallmark of an educated mind. Put simply, as you can see, your biggest challenge in the years ahead is to manage your own learning effectively. The good news is that by listening to this audio presentation, you've already taken a step in the right direction. You have realized that you will have to become a driver rather than a passenger in your educational journey. And so, the purpose of this recording is to give you some driving lessons' in learning. In listening to this recording, you are going to learn how to manage your own learning, and how to get down to studying. You'll receive practical tips on motivation, managing your study time, learning from lectures, listening and note-taking skills, improving your reading and summarizing skills, focusing effectively and improving your concentration. You'll be helped to remember and understand what you learn and you will be given practical tips on how to evaluate what you learn and think critically. You are also going to receive tips on planning and writing essays and papers, and finally you are going to be taught exam skills to help you to do your best when it matters most.

Aidan Moran, James Gourley (Author), Aidan Moran, Emma Thurston (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Aidan Moran