College Study Skills

Summary: COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, Sixth Edition is a wide-ranging, practical text that focuses on helping you become actively engaged in your own learning. The text incorporates active learning strategies to help you succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing you to practice it, and asking you to do self-assessments to gain feedback on your own success. This variety of strategies and act...ivities, as well as authentic and engaging text material from numerous core subject areas, gives you opportunities to apply what you are learning to your course work in other college classes. Chapters such as "Getting Ready to Learn," "Setting Goals," "Organizing Text Information," and "Preparing for Essay Exams" will help you adjust to the new environment and expectations of college learning, and a dynamic website that accompanies the text provides you with additional resources for practice, transfer, and self-assessment. [read more]