Textbooks

[yourfriendlyneighbourhoodghost]

HI

I hope everyone is doing well.

I am ordering textbooks at the moment and i have some questions...

1. Does it matter if you get a newer edition than the one stated in the handbook?
2. What does it mean when it says "readings will be posted on the LMS"? Are said readings free and does this mean I don't need to buy any textbooks for this subject?
3. What is meant when it says "a subject reader will be available"? Does this come at a cost?

Thank you so very much.

[Sine]

HI

I hope everyone is doing well.

I am ordering textbooks at the moment and i have some questions...

1. Does it matter if you get a newer edition than the one stated in the handbook?
2. What does it mean when it says "readings will be posted on the LMS"? Are said readings free and does this mean I don't need to buy any textbooks for this subject?
3. What is meant when it says "a subject reader will be available"? Does this come at a cost?

Thank you so very much.

1) no newer/older editions are generally fine - only small minor changes
2) I think it means what pages they expect you to read from the textbook in a week. Also this may mean they give you for free the pages you need.
3) I'm not too familiar with these but I think you need to buy them from the uni bookstore.

However, this goes to all new uni students - don't buy textbooks before the semester starts you usually won't need all of them. Lecturers will let you know in the first week if you actually need it. Most of the textbook list are recommendations. Also, talk to past students on whether they actually used the textbook.

[sweetcheeks]

In the context of Arts, readings are generally some sort of literature (case study, news report, review) that you are required to examine either before your lecture of tutorial. These will be posted online for free.

Subject readers are pretty much all the required readings in a hard-copy format (you buy this from the bookshop). Usually the cost of this is cheaper than trying to print it out yourself.

Generally subjects that have readers won't use a textbook (or they will have recommended textbooks rather than a 'required' textbook). The reason for this is that some subjects may teach topics that aren't found in one textbook, therefore they take literature from different sources to make their own 'textbook' for the subject.