Author: Goodheart-Willcox Publisher

Study Skills is a concise, effective textbook that presents the basic study skills needed for classroom success. It is designed to help students become active learners with improved reading comprehension, critical-thinking skills, time management, and more. Developed for the classroom, this program features learning outcomes that are reinforced throughout the lessons with pretests, review questions, critical-thinking activities, internet exercises, and hands-on applications.

Table of Contents

Abbreviated Contents

Study Skills, 1st Edition

• Front Matter
• 1 - Developing Study Skills
• 2 - Identifying Your Learning Style
• 3 - Developing Time-Management Skills
• 4 - Defining Study Time
• 5 - Creating a Study Environment
• 6 - Improving Reading Comprehension
• 7 - Becoming an Active Reader
• 8 - Becoming an Active Listener
• 9 - Improving Your Note Taking
• 10 - Improving Your Memory
• 11 - Test-Taking Strategies
• 12 - Researching for College Papers
• 13 - Writing a College Paper
• 14 - Managing Stress
• Appendix A Portfolio Development
• Appendix B Punctuation, Capitalization,and Number Expression
• Glossary
• Index