Synopses & Reviews
Effective Study Skills. Maximizing Your Academic Potential is a comprehensive text with study strategies that enable students to maximize their potential. Significant features include:
- Cooperative learning activities for each chapter
- Extensive coverage of reading skills needed to process college textbooks
- A diverse collection of textbook and other readings, complete with higher-level thinking questions
- Increased opportunity for students to link reading and study material with prior knowledge and interest
- More complete coverage of critical reading and analytical thinking strategies
Synopsis
A comprehensive study skills book that addresses the needs of professionals of all learning styles, ages, and backgrounds. Acknowledging that specific strategies for developing study skills will differ according individual learning style and training, this book offers presentations and activities in many different modalities. The book covers time-management; concentration and memory; and critical reading and thinking. Written for people who want to reach their maximum potential in learning and comprehension in any field.
Synopsis
A comprehensive study skills book that addresses the needs of professionals of all learning styles, ages, and backgrounds. Acknowledging that specific strategies for developing study skills will differ according individual learning style and training, this book offers presentations and activities in "many" different modalities.The book covers time-management; concentration and memory; and critical reading and thinking.Written for people who want to reach their maximum potential in learning and comprehension in any field.
About the Author
Judy Roberts received her A. B. degree in English from West Georgia College, her M. Ed. degree in education from Georgia State University, and her Ed. D. in reading from the University of Miami. She has taught developmental reading and study skills courses at five colleges and universities in Florida and Kentucky. Prior to beginning a career in college teaching, she taught far sixteen years in the public school systems of Georgia, Florida, and Kentucky.
She is a member of Phi Delta Kappa and the Kentucky Association of Developmental Education. She maintains the belief that all students can become more successful after being taught some basic metacognitive strategies, which can be applied to all of their college courses.
Table of Contents
I. EFFECTIVE USE OF STUDY TIME. 1. Time Management. 2. Concentration and Memory.
3. Learning Styles.
II. EFFECTIVE PROCESSING OF TEXTBOOKS. 4. Main Ideas.
5. Underlining and Annotating Textbooks.
6. Organizational Patterns in Textbooks.
7. Graphic Illustrations in Textbooks.
8. Study Methods for Textbooks.
9. Vocabulary Acquisition Strategies.
III. EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE IN CLASS. 10. Note Taking.
11. Test-Taking Skills.
12. Critical Reading and Thinking.
Glossary.
Index.