study skills

All students need strong study skills in order to succeed in school. This friendly, accessible guide gives students an experienced educator's top ten tips for doing well in school, including setting goals, getting organized, and studying effectively.

Contains strategies for the seven through twelve classroom that includes critical thinking and problem solving skills, writing, researching, and organizing ideas, and approaches to reasoning and creativity.

Offers planning tools and advice on how to get organized for study and life.

Offers advice on creating a work environment, excelling in class, getting motivated, using the library, and doing on-line research.

Offers advice on how to improve reading speed, rate of comprehension, increase recall, and sharpen concentration.

Provides advice on reading comprehension, taking notes, improving your memory, building vocabulary, and scoring well on tests.

Practical guide to higher education for African Americans, covering such topics as how assumptions black student's make about whites affect their academic careers, how to get grades changed, how to remember what the professor says in lectures, and how to balance study, work, family responsibilities, and fun.

Discusses eighty specific study techniques, relating them to such larger tasks as organizing for study, taking notes, writing papers, taking tests, and others.