College Study: The Essential Ingredients (3rd Edition)

College Study: The Essential Ingredients (3rd Edition)

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<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Uses an active learning approach that focuses on the reader choosing, applying, and assessing practical strategies, with the goal of creating an effective, efficient, and individualized system of study.  </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I>College Study </I>exposes readers to <I>how</I> to make informed choices about learning content that is often new, complex, and changing rapidly, especially given the increasing link between technology and learning. Included is the inter-relationship of students’ learning behaviors and attitudes, with an emphasis on applying multi-modal strategies into daily course work. The text covers the major learning skills topics: academic planning and goal-setting, time management and procrastination, productivity, active listening and note taking, reading and studying, preparing for and taking tests, enhancing learning and memory, reducing worry/anxiety, and online and web-based strategies. The text is written in a <I>streamlined format</I>; with an <I>informal, personal writing style</I>; and <I>engaging activities</I> that maintain the reader’s attention and appeal to today’s college students.</P>