Improving Reading and Study Skills, One Half Unit
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Course WWW Links & Resources

yourDictionary.com

Academic Skills Center online Study Skills Library

Academic Success Resources

Homework Help

Guide to Grammar & Writing

Learning & Study Skills Links

Thesaurus.com

Academic Resource Center's WWW Links for Study Skills

Study Skills from the Augustine Club

Study Skill Guides

Study Skills Self-help Information

Study Skills for High Schoolers

The Humboldt Learning Center: Improving Study Skills

Study Strategies Homepage

Big Dog's Grammar: A Bare Bones Guide to English

Merriam-Webster Online Language Center

Lessons 1 & 2

Mind Tool's Reading Strategies

Before, While, & After Reading Strategies (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Big Dog's Grammar: A Bare Bones Guide to English

Study Formula SQ3R

The SQ3R Method

SQ3R—A Reading/Study System

Reading Your Textbooks Effectively and Efficiently

Improving Reading Skills

Reading & Understanding Texts

Focusing and Reading

How to Read a Difficult Book

Suggestions for Improving Reading Speed

Lesson 3

A Web of online Dictionaries

Guide to Grammar & Writing

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition

Merriam-Webster Online Language Center

Big Dog's Grammar: A Bare Bones Guide to English

Vocabulary: An On Going Process

Vocabulary Building

One Look Dictionaries

Lesson 4

Managing Your Stress and Anxiety

Increasing Motivation

Stress Management

Lesson 5

Procrastination

Time Management Assessment

Time Management Strategies

Time Management Schedules

Time Saving Tips

Managing Your Time

Twenty Time Savers

Making a Schedule: How & Why

23 Time Management Techniques

Time Scheduling Suggestions

More Information on Time Scheduling

Priority Setting

End Procrastination, Build Success

Time Management

A Planned Weekly Schedule

Lesson 6

Memorization

Study Tips, including Concentration and Memory

Improving Your Concentration

Remembering What You Read

Concentration—Some Rules of Thumb

Remembering

Lesson 7

Lecture Notetaking

Note Taking Systems

Note Taking Tips

Taking Lecture and Class Notes

Classroom Listening & Notetaking

Note Taking—The Cornell System

Editing Lecture Notes

Note-Taking and In-Class Skills

Develop a Note Taking System

Lesson 8

Test Taking Skills I—How Do I Show What I Know?

Test Taking Skills II—Making and Using Study Guides

Test Taking Strategies

Essay Test Preparation

Test Preparation Suggestions

Objective Test Taking

Tips for Combating Test Panic

Managing Your Stress and Anxiety, including Coping with Exam Anxiety

Writing Examinations

Test-taking Skills

Essay Type Examinations

Learn about Test Taking Strategies

Lesson 9

A+ Research & Writing for High School & College Students

Guide to Grammar & Writing

Big Dog's Grammar: A Bare Bones Guide to English

Study Tips, including Writing Research Papers

Procedure for Writing a Term Paper

Writing Papers



Search Engines

Activities

Calculating Reading Speed (lessons 1 & 2)

Find the readability level of a book or your writing with the Fog Index (lessons 1 & 2)

Do a Time Audit for one week (lesson 5)



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