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: #5852 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-15
• Original language: English
• 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.

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

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.

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 book for new or experienced students.
This is an excellent book for new or experienced students in Social Sciences courses. Although it is suitable for students at traditional universities and colleges, it is particularly well suited to Open University and other distance learning students. For example, it has a chapter on "Learning from TV and Radio Broadcasts" as well as advice on taking notes in lectures. I have had mine for five years now, and the sections on essay writing and preparing for exams are particularly well-thumbed.