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A technique has been developed whereby a single glow curve measurement may lead to the determination of the trapping parameters E and S (the trap depth and frequency factor respectively) and the order of kinetics, without need of mathematical approximations, for first and second-order glow curves. This has been facilitated by using a hyperbolic heating profile. The technique measures tm (time to maximum intensity of glow curve). and ti (points of inflection on the rising and falling slopes). For first-order kinetics E gamma /k=1.925/D where D=t2-t1, gamma is the heating constant and k is the Boltzman constant, whilst for second-order kinetics E gamma /k=2.643/D. This analysis is developed further to include non-integer orders of kinetics, from which a technique is derived to uniquely determine the order of kinetics.