How To Study In College – Walter Pauk (1)

But if there truly seems to be a disconnect between you and your book, you may want to fi nd a supplementary text or “read” the original book in a different form. Use a Supplementary Text How will a If for whatever reason you’re having diffi culties understanding the course’s primary supplementary text textbook and you’ve already sought help from the instructor or a tutor, then a supple-help?

mentary textbook can sometimes help you gain a better grasp of the subject. In some instances, you may be able to fi nd another textbook that covers the same topic that your course textbook does, but it’s more likely that you will have to use different supplementary texts for different parts of your course text. It’s important to stress that this is a supplementary textbook, not an alternate one.

Your instructor still has every right and reason to expect you to be studying from the required text. Therefore, any reading you do in a second text will be in addition to your regular text, not instead of it. Once you have a better grasp of the subject or ideas you were struggling with, return to the regular text and see if it is easier to understand.

Listen Instead of Reading What is the value of Auditory learners comprehend better when they hear information instead of reading listening instead of it on a page or screen. This means that although lectures are helpful, reading assign-reading? ments can sometimes be a struggle. The organization Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) provides audio versions of a large number of textbooks (http://www. rfbd.org). In addition, many popular books—both fi ction and nonfi ction— are released 1Richard A.

Felder and Barbara M. Soloman, “Learning Styles and Strategies,” available at http:// www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSdir/styles.htm. www.cengage.com/success/Pauk/HowTOStudy10e Part II: Gaining Information in audio form by commercial publishers and are often available from your college or public library for free. It’s important to stick with the unabridged versions, however, or you may miss a part of the book that is stressed in class and on your tests but is absent from the copy you listened to.

• Understand Visuals All of us are taught to read words at an early age. But when are we taught to read pic-IT’S YOUR Q tures? When you read words, you’re cracking a code. That code is the English language, and its message is the meaning you extract from words, sentences, and paragraphs.

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1 Goal-Setting: Know What You’re Aiming For 3 2 Organization: Use Your Time and Space Effectively 25 3 Concentration: Stay Focused 57 4 Stress Management: Learn How to Handle Pressure 77 Part 2 Gaining Information 105 Pinpoint and understand the most valuable information in your courses.

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