Effective Study Skills: Maximizing Your Academic Potential

By Judy Roberts

A comprehensive study skills book that addresses the needs of professionals of all learning styles, ages, and backgrounds. Acknowledging that specific strategies for developing study skills will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131117289
• ISBN13: 9780131117280
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Centered on Textbooks and the Classroom

The first 90 pages of Roberts book examine basic study skills such as time management, memory, learning styles and critical reading and thinking. The next section is the particular strength of this volume, in which she looks at how to get the most out of your textbook. What follows is over 100 pages that look at how to locate major ideas, get the most out of grapics, identify your texts organizational style and how to study out of it. She finishes by looking at needed skills for the classroom. A useful addition to your library.