Product Description

Developing your learning skills is one of the best investments you can make. We all need to be lifelong learners now. Whether you are an experienced student or just starting out this book will stimulate, guide and support you. It will make you think about yourself and how your mind learns. And it will change forever the way that you study.
Topics include:
- motivating yourself and managing your time
- taking full advantage of your computer
- reading with concentration and understanding
- developing flexible note-taking strategies
- getting the most from seminars and workshops
- making presentations
- researching online
- handling numbers and charts with confidence
- writing clear, well argued assignments
- doing yourself justice in exams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3192 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-15
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

Study Skills Teacher
It is truly a compulsively good read…a beautifully crafted, student-friendly, superb catalogue of
really helpful advice.

Synopsis
Developing your learning skills is one of the best investments you can make. We all need to be lifelong learners now. Whether you are an experienced student or just starting out this book will stimulate, guide and support you. It will make you think about yourself and how your mind learns. And it will change forever the way that you study. The topics include: motivating yourself and managing your time; taking full advantage of your computer; reading with concentration and understanding; developing flexible note-taking strategies; getting the most from seminars and workshops; making presentations; researching online; handling numbers and charts with confidence; writing clear, well argued assignments; and doing yourself justice in exams.

Back Jacket
Developing your learning skills is one of the best investments you can make. We all need to be
lifelong learners now. Whether you are an experienced student or just starting out this book
will stimulate, guide and support you. It will make you think about yourself and how your mind
learns. And it will change forever the way that you study.
Topics include:
• motivating yourself and managing your time
• taking full advantage of your computer
• reading with concentration and understanding
• developing flexible note-taking strategies
• getting the most from seminars and workshops
• making presentations
• researching online
• handling numbers and charts with confidence
• writing clear, well argued assignments
• doing yourself justice in exams.
The Good Study Guide, a bestseller for over a decade, has helped over half a million students.
For this new edition it has been thoroughly revised and expanded to address the challenges of
studying in a rapidly changing world where computers and the internet have become basic study
tools. It has five new chapters but the approach remains the same using case studies and examples
of real-life study tasks, accompanied by activities, to help you reflect on your current strategies.
Comments on the first edition:

Customer Reviews

Teach your children well...
I used this book years ago and found it extremely helpful. Now, as my second child is about to embark on a college career, where else should I advise her to turn but to this admirable little text.

Of course, the book is a little outdated but the principles hold good. Despite the modern trends in education, and particularly at the college level, little within the book has diminished in relevance.

Northedge is especially good at providing succinct direction in clear and lucid language, hardly surprising as the target audience is the adult learner who has been away from school or study for a number of years. In fact, I would consider this to be a major selling point and the continued success of the Open University in Great Britain is a testament to the work that has gone into this student manual.

I would highly recommend this book to students of all ages in preparation for the voyage of discovery that is higher education.

An essential companion for university or college study
A solid and competent book to help anyone unsure about how to study, or what might be expected of them, for a serious academic qualification. Standard issue for a lot of Open University courses, this is just as useful for any university or college course where students are expected to do their own reading, research, and private study. Essential wisdom on time-management and note-taking leads into detailed coverage of how to research and produce written work (including sections on using numbers, statistics and graphs/charts). If you are taking your first steps into higher education, or you think your study and writing skills might be a bit rusty, this book could be an enormous help.

An excellent guide to studying.
I bought this book when I returned to college to do A- levels and now that I'm in university I still use it. Many tutors recommend it and so would I.
Extremely useful if you are on a Open University course,other undergraduate course at university or just doing A-levels. One of the great things about the book is it easy readability, reassuring the reader that returning to study or studying for the first time is a skill that at first seems daunting but can be easily learn't through practice and not to get angry or disheartened if your work is criticised this is part of the learning process. Excellent for the Social Sciences.