College Study Skills: Becoming a Strategic Learner
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (834 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1413033369 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 363 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The text incorporates active learning strategies to help you succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing you to practice it, and asking you to do self-assessments to gain feedback on your own success. Chapters such as "Getting Ready to Learn", "Setting Goals", "Organizing Text Information", and "Preparing for Essay Exams" will help you adjust to the new environment and expectations of college learning, and a dynamic website that accompanies the text provides you with additional resources for practice, transfer, and self-assessment.. COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, Sixth Edition is a wide-ranging, practical text that focuses on helping you become actively engaged in your own learning. This variety of strategies and activities, as well as authentic and engaging text material from numerous core subject areas, gives you opportunities to apply what you are learning to your course work in other college classes
" a very current and comprehensive text. In every chapter, I was bending down a page corner or marking something that I have not seen in a text before."" I could really see a student retaining this book near their desk at home and taking advantage of it on a long-term basis."
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Van Blerkom is an experienced author and educator. She is an assistant professor in the Academic Support Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, and previously served as the director. She also has published numerous articles and textbooks, including COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR LEARNING: