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Study Skills
This articles describes how one can study or learn effectively by using skills.
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10 Tips for Success
Control Your Study Environment
1. Set aside a xed place or study and nothing but study.2. Beore you begin an assignment, write down on a sheet o paper the time you expect to nish.3. Strengthen your ability to concentrate by selecting a social symbol that is related to study, such as puttingon a certain scar or hat or setting a little gurine on your desk.4. I your mind wanders, stand up and ace away rom your books and spend a ew minutes daydreaming.5. Stop at the end o each page, and count to 10 slowly when you are reading—this idea may increase yourstudy time.6. Set aside a certain time to begin studying.7. Don’t start any unnished business just beore the time to start studying.8. Set small, short-range subgoals or yoursel by dividing your assignment into subsections.9. Keep a reminder pad so that i you happen to think about something that needs to be done, you can jotit down and orget it until later.10. Relax completely beore you start to study.
-excerpted from Systems for Study by Alton L. Rayor and David M. Work, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1970.
How to Take Notes
1. Write down the principle idea – not every word that is said2. A pen rather than a pencil is recommended.3. Keep each subject in a separate spiral notebook 4. Be ready to take notes when the class begins5. Listen, concentrate. I you do not understand something, ask about it.6. Write, write. It is better to take too many notes than not enough.7. Write clearly so you can understand your notes.8. Ater awhile you will develop your own “shorthand.”Some Shorthand Suggestions
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Improving Concentration
(Focusing Your Attention)
echniques to direct your attention to what you are reading or studying1. Give yoursel a goal – set a time limit and work toward it.2. Choose goals that are easy to accomplish.3. Reward yoursel – when you have accomplished a goal. Be certain that the goal justies the reward. Forexample, learning ve new words in Spanish does not justiy a two-hour V break.4. Get interested in the subject – read critically, try to predict what the author will say next, and try to re-late new material to inormation you have already learned.5. Pre-read to get a mental outline o the material.6. Establish a purpose or reading makes reading an active, searching, question and answer process ratherthan an exercise in word recognition.7. Combine physical and mental activities.8. Vary your activities – physical activities, such as taking notes and underlining, combined with mentalactivities, such as reading and memorization will help you to ocus your attention.
-excerpted from McWhorter, Kathleen College Reading and Study Skills
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