Essential Study Skills
ISBN: 9780547048710 | 0547048718
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/5/2008
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For students who need to develop the study skills required to successfully complete their college education, Essential Study Skills, 6/e, is their guide to success--whether they attend a two- or four-year college, or they are adult learners. Featuring the essential keys to becoming a stronger student, this book will help students learn how to prepare for class, develop effective textbook reading strategies, use effective note-taking techniques, and strengthen their test-taking skills. Essential Study Skills, 6/e, adapts to any learning style and offers a step-by-step approach with numerous opportunities for practice throughout the textbook. The new four-color design and streamlined look engages students and emphasizes the essentials.
| Discovering and Using Your Learning Styles | |
| Three Cognitive Learning Styles | |
| Linear and Global Learners | |
| Multiple Intelligences | |
| Processing Information into Your Memory | |
| The Information Processing Model | |
| Your Conscious Mind: Working Memory | |
| Using Twelve Principles of Memory | |
| Memory Tools | |
| The First Four Princ... MORE | |
| The Middle Four Principles of Memory | |
| The Last Four Principles of Memory | |
| Becoming a Time Manager and a Goal-Setter | |
| Balance in Your Life | |
| Kinds of Schedules | |
| Goal Setting | |
| Goal-Setting Strategies | |
| Developing Self-Management Skills | |
| Concentration Motivation | |
| Stress Management | |
| Procrastination Management | |
| Developing Test-Taking Skills | |
| Test-Preparation Skills | |
| Test-Performance Skills | |
| Test Anxiety | |
| Management Skills | |
| Mnemonics | |
| Strengthening Your Reading Skills | |
| The Reading Process | |
| Surveying Reading Materials | |
| Paragraph Elements | |
| Terminology and Vocabulary | |
| Learning from College Textbooks | |
| Active Reading | |
| Organizational Patterns | |
| Graphic Materials | |
| Reading in the Content Areas | |
| Developing Notetaking Skills | |
| Textbook Notetaking Skills | |
| Annotation | |
| The Cornell Notetaking System | |
| Two- and Three-Column Notetaking Systems | |
| The Outline Notetaking System | |
| Listening and Taking Lecture | |
| Notes Listening Skills | |
| Notetaking Systems for Lectures | |
| Effective Notetaking Strategies | |
| Creating Using and Using Visual Notes and Study Tools | |
| Tailored Approach | |
| Visual Mappings Hierarchies | |
| Comparison Charts | |
| Index Card | |
| Notes | |
| Developing Skills for Objective Tests | |
| True-False Questions | |
| Multiple-Choice Questions | |
| Matching Questions | |
| Educated Guessing | |
| Developing Skills for Recall, Math, and Essay Tests | |
| Recall Test Questions | |
| Math Test Questions | |
| Essay Test Questions | |
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