Product Description

This new edition of A Guide to Learning Independently will empower you to develop the necessary skills to survive as an informed, independent, and versatile student in the 21st century. The book will help you to:

* Understand yourself and the ways in which you learn and study
* Plan and concentrate on your study commitments
* Adapt to independent study within a formal institution such as a university
* Formulate effective strategies for remembering information
* Use and evaluate research material
* Make the most of libraries and other sources of information available to you
* Understand and make the best use of lectures
* Participate confidently in discussion groups
* Develop and improve your writing

A Guide to Learning Independently will change the way you think about learning, and it will transform the ways in which you learn and study.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #324147 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

Review
"...provides a valuable contribution to an understanding of the way in which universities are governed and for those involved inthe process will provide much food for thought."- Research in Post-Compulsory Education

About the Author
Lorraine Marshall and Frances Rowland have based this book on their extensive experience at the Teaching and Learning Centre at Murdoch University, Perth.

Customer Reviews

It really helped me!
This book is excellent in helping u learn independantly it was of very good use to me. It really helped me focus on things much better and helped me learn more about myself and how i learn on my own. I would recommend it to anyone.

Extremely useful
I have had this book for 30 years and am now looking for the updated version, as I have found it so useful.
I now recommend it to my students, even the ones who are not learning independently.