{"id":3212,"date":"2022-09-19T01:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2022-09-19T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:21:20","slug":"guide-for-english-department-freshers-2022-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/2022\/09\/19\/guide-for-english-department-freshers-2022-23\/","title":{"rendered":"GUIDE FOR ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FRESHERS 2022-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Freshers\u2019 Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guide for English Department Freshers 2022-23 is now available. It offers a student perspective on studying English at King\u2019s and addresses some issues of concern for new students.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The project was managed by Elinor Evans, Sara Hussain, and Cornelia Sheppard Dawson. The magazine was edited by previous third-year English students: Sukhmani Bhakar, Iman Hafeez, Tanzim Kamali, and Eranda Salihu. It includes pieces written by Ana Bottle, Emma Campbell, Fiona Eddis-Finbow, Ted J. Gibbs, Pavlina Sotirova, and Jil Thielen.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-2923\"><\/span>The guide covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tips for tackling reading lists<\/li>\n<li>What makes a good student, how to take notes, a guide to writing essays, and time management tips<\/li>\n<li>The best places to look &amp; search for material<\/li>\n<li>A review of London Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Information about first-year modules &amp; what the first year will be like<\/li>\n<li>An interview with Head of First Year, Dr Carl Kears<\/li>\n<li>An introduction to the English Department Student Representatives<\/li>\n<li>Clubs and Societies \u2013 the spaces to meet people, to explore &amp; develop interests<\/li>\n<li>Coffee Shops in London (as study space &amp; places to socialise)<\/li>\n<li>A campus guide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For full details, please see the attached guide in pdf format.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2022\/09\/Somerssetting-2022-23.pdf\">Somersetting 2022-23<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Blog posts on King\u2019s English represent the views of the individual authors and neither those of the English Department, nor of King\u2019s College London.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong>You may also like to read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/english\">Department of English<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/about-us\/\">About us: King\u2019s English<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshers\u2019 Week The Guide for English Department Freshers 2022-23 is now available. It offers a student perspective on studying English at King\u2019s and addresses some issues of concern for new students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[912],"tags":[704,1159,36,537,702,1179,339,697,703],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-ba-english","tag-department-of-english","tag-featured","tag-freshers","tag-freshers-week","tag-introduction","tag-kings-college-london","tag-student-magazine","tag-undergraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}