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College study skills : becoming a stragegic learner / Dianna L. Van Blerkom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, MA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, c2012.Edition: 7th edDescription: xxxix, 10, 381 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0495913510
  • 9780495913511
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.170281   23
Contents:
1. Getting Motivated -- 2. Goal Setting -- 3. Time Management -- 4. Memory and Learning -- 5. Taking Lecture Notes -- 6. Improving Concentration -- 7. Reading Your Textbook -- 8. Marking Your Textbook -- 9. Organizing Text Information -- 10. Preparing for Exams -- 11. Taking Objective Exams -- 12. Taking Essay Exams -- 13. Succeeding on Finals.
Summary: A market leader for the study skills course, COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, Seventh Edition is a wide-ranging, practical text that focuses on helping students become actively engaged in their own learning. The text incorporates active learning strategies to help students succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing them to practice it, and having them do self-assessments to gain feedback on their own success. This variety of strategies and activities, as well as authentic and engaging text material from numerous core subject areas, gives students opportunities to apply what they are learning to their course work in other college classes. The Seventh Edition has a new focus on motivation. Chapter (1) Getting Motivated focuses on the importance of motivation in college success. More information on the causes of motivation problems and strategies for increasing motivation are also included, and each of the chapters that follow in the text strengthens the connection between motivation and the strategies that are presented, so that students continue to increase their motivation throughout the course.
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Includes index.

1. Getting Motivated -- 2. Goal Setting -- 3. Time Management -- 4. Memory and Learning -- 5. Taking Lecture Notes -- 6. Improving Concentration -- 7. Reading Your Textbook -- 8. Marking Your Textbook -- 9. Organizing Text Information -- 10. Preparing for Exams -- 11. Taking Objective Exams -- 12. Taking Essay Exams -- 13. Succeeding on Finals.

A market leader for the study skills course, COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, Seventh Edition is a wide-ranging, practical text that focuses on helping students become actively engaged in their own learning. The text incorporates active learning strategies to help students succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing them to practice it, and having them do self-assessments to gain feedback on their own success. This variety of strategies and activities, as well as authentic and engaging text material from numerous core subject areas, gives students opportunities to apply what they are learning to their course work in other college classes. The Seventh Edition has a new focus on motivation. Chapter (1) Getting Motivated focuses on the importance of motivation in college success. More information on the causes of motivation problems and strategies for increasing motivation are also included, and each of the chapters that follow in the text strengthens the connection between motivation and the strategies that are presented, so that students continue to increase their motivation throughout the course.

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