Success Skills: Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning

by Abby Marks Beale

Success Skills book coverSuccess Skills: Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning is a college level text that provides users with a solid foundation in how to learn. Its introspective focus guides you to discover who you are as a learner and then presents you with strategies that make learning easier. As a result, you increase your learning self-confidence and spend less time learning more.

Success Skills does more than present information – it engages you with activities and exercises that promote immediate usability and permanent retention. You can immediately apply what you learn to all your learning tasks.

Success Skills, the third edition of the original and popular Study Skills: The Tools for Active Learning, takes a logical approach to learning skills that are vital to academic and career success. The school-to-work focus makes the information usable to secondary, collegiate and corporate learners.

Table of Contents - 3rd Edition

  1. Learning by Doing
  2. Discovering Your Learning Style
  3. Creating Concentration
  4. Learning Time Management
  5. Studying Smart
  6. Taking Notes in Class
  7. Taking Notes from Reading Material
  8. Improving Reading Comprehension
  9. Revving Up Your Reading
  10. Mastering Tests
  11. Using Your Critical and Creative Mind
  12. Reading and Researching Online
  13. Writing in the Real World
  14. Appendices

Paperback, 412 pages, ISBN 0-538-72963-5
South-Western Educational Publishing/ITP © 2007)

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*Note to Educators: If you are considering adoption of the Success Skills text for use in the classroom, contact the following toll-free numbers at Southwestern Publishing to request a desk copy or the Instructor's Guide:

High School Educators: 1-800-824-5179
Career School Educators: 1-800-347-7707
College Educators: 1-800-354-9706

 

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