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Annotated Bibliography of Study Skills Resources
Ellis, David B. Becoming a Master Student. 6th ed. Rapid City, S.D.: College Survival Inc. 1991.
| Designed as a text for a college study skills course, it presents tools, techniques, hints, ideas, illustrations, instructions, examples, methods, procedures, processes, skills, resources, and suggestions for success. This is a very readable text, written in a lively style, covering every topic relevant to personal and academic success--from attitudes and how to change them to tests and how to prepare for and take them. An excellent table of contents directs readers to the topic they want to explore. Each chapter includes an overview, several practical suggestions on the specific topic, a power process, several exercises to help readers implement new skills, an inspiring example of real life “master students” as well as a quiz to test understanding of the concepts presented. |
Faser, Lisa. Making your Mark. 5th ed. Port Perry, ON, Canada: LDF Publishing, Inc. 1996.
| This book covers a wide range of topics, including career directions, time management, note-taking, assignments, exams, study habits, and life outside the classroom. Each chapter outlines a variety of techniques that will help students develop an effective approach to their post-secondary education. |
Holkeboer, Robert. Right from the Start: Managing your Way to College Success. Belmont, CA:Wadsworth Publishing Co. 1993.
| Provides comprehensive strategies for creating personal and academic success through active self management. Shows you how to take charge, build skills, make choices about a full range of issues–-from study skills and time management to health maintenance and student diversity. Continually promotes active learning. Each chapter begins with a self assessment activity and concludes with action planning to help readers create success in the unique context of their own lives. |
Jewler, A. Jerome, John N. Gardner, and Mary-Jane McCarthy. Your College Experience: Strategies for Success. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. 1993.
| Covers a wide gamut of information about adjusting to college-level demands. From healthy care of one’s body to making the grade, the authors attempt to cover every aspect of college life and learning. Includes many exercises aimed to encourage application and understanding. |
Kanar, Carol C. The Confident Student. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1991.
| Presents information about adjusting to college life, making the most of one’s time, thinking critically, using textbooks, gaining test-taking confidence, and mastering courses. Each chapter includes confidence-building exercises and awareness checks. |
Linier, Minnette and Janet Maker. Keys to College Success: Reading and Study Improvement. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1990.
| Practical, high interest approach to reading and study skills needed in college. Includes a full chapter on reading critically, reading selections from college textbooks in a wide variety of content areas, new information on computer services, textbook graphics and student services, practice activities on using vocabulary in context. The skills emphasized are time management, vocabulary, main ideas, author's organization, study reading, memory, critical reading, speed reading, note-taking, test-taking, using the library and writing term papers. Each chapter includes skills instruction and an additional reading selection, both followed by comprehension checks and skills exercises. Skills taught in earlier chapters are reviewed at increasing levels of difficulty in subsequent chapters. |
Olney, Claude W. Where There’s a Will, There’s an…A: How to Get Better Grades in College. Paoli, PA: Chesterbrook Educational Publishers, Inc. 1989
| The book contains concise, helpful suggestions for studying, test-taking, writing papers, and managing college courses. |
Olney, Claude W. Where There’s a Will, There’s an…A: How to Get Better Grades in College. [Videocassette] Paoli, PA: Chesterbrook Educational Publishers, Inc. 1988
| This two-tape videocassette series is a comprehensive guide to the mechanics of better learning. |
Pauk, Walter. How to Study in College. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1989.
| A comprehensive study skills text often referred to as the “Bible of college study skills.” Detailed, practical, and written in a conversational style, this text begins with a section devoted to assessing the reader's strengths and weaknesses as a student. The next section consists of two chapters on concentration and memory followed by five chapters on note-taking–including listening, textbook reading and taking notes both from lectures and reading assignment. Four chapters deal with preparing for tests and answering the various types of objective and essay questions that appear on tests. Three chapters offer instruction on improving reading skills–-vocabulary, comprehension and speed. The final section is devoted to special skills including studying mathematics and foreign languages. Each chapter includes a mini-overview, instruction in the topic which incorporates concrete examples and modeling, a chapter summary, and review questions at the end. |
Shepherd, James F. College Study Skills. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1990.
| Contains information on adjusting to college life, developing organizational and studying skills, and test-taking strategies. Section 1 contains 7 chapters on planning for success. The next two chapters deal with organizational skills. Chapters 10 – 17 deal with methods for studying for tests while the final 9 chapters cover various test-taking skills. All chapters conclude with exercises that reinforce the material covered. |
Shepherd, James F. RSVP: The College Reading, Study, and Vocabulary Program. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1992.
| Contains helpful knowledge for both preparing for and taking tests. Also includes extensive vocabulary and reading units. Focused on preparing students for success in overall focus, time management, and increased concentration. |
Smith, Richard Manning. Mastering Mathematics: How to be a Great Math Student. 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co. 1994
| A mathematics instructor with many years of teaching experience, Smith has compiled a book of concrete suggestions and practical methods. Mastering Mathematics tells students how to develop an appropriate attitude, deal with class notes, approach homework, ask good questions, study more effectively for tests, use supplemental resources, avoid mental blocks, respond when they think they're “lost”, and check their work. Beginning with a diagnostic survey to help students determine the areas in which they need to improve their approach to mathematics courses, the text proceeds with a systematic presentation of strategies to use in developing a positive attitude, preparing you for gaining the most from class time, class notes, and homework, and preparing for and taking mathematics tests. The book provides students with the opportunity to track their improvement in study skills and evaluate their progress after reading the book and using the techniques. |
Sembera, Angela & Hovis, Michael. Math! A Four Letter Word! 2nd ed. Wimberley, TX: Wimberley Press. 1990.
| A handbook for students who hate math. Includes strategies for overcoming negative attitudes and anxiety regarding math. |
Math! A Four Letter Word! [Videocassette] Wimberly, TX: Public Films Inc. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1992.
| A 20 minute videocassette for students who hate math. Includes strategies for overcoming negative attitudes and anxiety regarding math. |
Aids to Memory: Note-taking Skills. Mt. Kisco, NY: The Center for the Humanities, Inc. 1987.
| This 40 minute videocassette program tells how to listen for main points, important details, signal words and phrases and how to lay out notes for maximum clarity and usefulness. Explains patterns such as list, chronology, cause-and-effect, and compare/contrast. |
Levine, Harold and Robert. T. Levine. Vocabulary Resources for the College Student. New York: Amsco College Publications. 1980.
| Presents techniques for substantially increasing a student's vocabulary. Chapter one teaches defining vocabulary through context, and chapter two shows how to use related words. The book's strength lies in its teaching of vocabulary using word origins: Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, French, Italian, and Spanish. The book concludes with a chapter on teaching vocabulary expansion using derivatives, and it provides a review of some basic spelling rules. |
Levine, Harold and Robert T. Levine. Vocabulary Foundations for the College Student. New York: Amsco College Publications. 1981
| Like its predecessor Vocabulary Resources, this book uses a multi pronged approach to teaching vocabulary improvement. As in the first book, this book presents two chapters on learning words from their context and through related ideas. The section on using word elements is more concentrated: they have a more specific focus than the sections in the first book. This book expands the section on learning vocabulary through derivatives and includes a wholly new section on understanding word relationships and analogies which the more advanced student might benefit from. |
Pauk, Walter. Essential Skills Series. Providence, RI: Jamestown Publishers, Inc. 1982.
| Each book, levels 15-20, presents 25 short passages followed by five questions dealing with the student's abilities to identify the passage's subject matter, find the main idea and identify supporting details, draw conclusions, recognize clarifying devices, and define vocabulary in context. The strategies are good, basically geared for the student whose reading level needs substantial improvement to reach college reading competency. |
Presley, John W. and William M. Dodd. Essential Reading Skills . Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 1982.
| Geared specifically for upper high school/college level. Presents a variety of passages intended to increase a student's reading comprehension. The passages start out relatively easy and grow progressively more difficult. Each passage is followed by five types of questions which help reinforce the following skills: understanding the main idea, recalling the facts, drawing conclusions, making inferences, and defining vocabulary from context. Includes a diagnostic pre-test and post-test to determine where the student should be placed and how much the student has improved. |
Richek, Margaret Ann. The World of Words: Vocabulary for College Students. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1989.
| This book is divided into two major sections. The first section works with developing dictionary skills and using context clues and the second section works with learning words through word elements–-by breaking them into parts. This section also incorporates word origins into using word elements. This book is highly interesting, and the end of each chapter contains a variety of exercises, each teaching vocabulary in a slightly different way. Students learn to define words in context, to use related words, and to use the words they've learned in their writing. |
Ultimate Speed Reader. Torrance, CA: Davidson & Associates, Inc. 1997.
| This program is designed to help students improve both their reading speed and comprehension. Includes six exercises that help students build the skills needed for rapid, flexible and efficient reading. Students register when they enter the program and their progress is then tracked and recorded. We recommend that students plan on coming in at regular intervals, working on the program for 30-60 minutes per session. The skills practiced on the computer will only be helpful if the student practices using these same skills in their other reading tasks. This program is also available only on the ASK Center multimedia computer(s). |
Wiener, Harvey S. and Charles Bazerman. Basic Reading Skills Handbook. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin Co. 1988.
| Divided into two sections: a handbook and a mini-anthology of reading selections. The handbook teaches vocabulary, prereading, comprehension, interpretations, and basic study skills. The vocabulary unit uses several techniques: context clues, word parts, multiple meanings, and denotation and connotation, among others. Two units are devoted to developing the comprehension skills discussed in this guide. The reading selections provide additional practice in developing the skills taught in the handbook. |
Wiener, Harvey S. and Charles Bazerman. Reading Skills Handbook. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin Co. 1988
| Following the same approach and format of the Basic Reading Skills Handbook, this book is geared to a higher level. It teaches “basic reading skills required for success in college”: vocabulary, comprehension, interpretation and evaluation, and basic study skills, covering each of these topics in depth. The reading selections are also more challenging than the ones in the basic handbook. |
Fergus, Patricia M. Spelling Improvement: A Program for Self-Instruction. 2nd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1973.
| Designed to be used either in a class or for individual study and geared for upper high school/college level students, this text in divided into three sections: Sound and Spelling, Meaning and Spelling, and Rules and Spelling. Each section consists of several chapters focusing on such various aspects as pronunciation, prefixes, silent letters, sound alike suffixes, “seed” roots, homonyms, and specific spelling rules. The chapters begin with a pre-test and end with a post-test so that students can check their progress. A useful tool for the student with poor spelling skills to implement. |
Lewis, Norman. Instant Spelling Power. New York, NY: Amsco College Publications. 1976.
| A programmed text and workbook for improving spelling skills. Although students may work specifically on the units that deal with their particular spelling weaknesses, the text is most effective when students work through it front to back, applying their new skills in writing assignments in their current courses. |
McCauley, Rosemarie and Keith Slocum. Business Spelling and Word Power. 2nd ed. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1983.
| This text is formatted as a workbook, with exercises designed to improve spelling. The text especially focuses on spelling of business terms. |
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