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COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, Sixth Edition is a wide-ranging, practical text that focuses on helping you become actively engaged in your own learning. The text incorporates active learning strategies to help you succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing you to practice it, and asking you to do self-assessments to gain feedback on your own success. This variety of strategies and activities, as well as authentic and engaging text material from numerous core subject areas, gives you opportunities to apply what you are learning to your course work in other college classes. Chapters such as "Getting Ready to Learn", "Setting Goals", "Organizing Text Information", and "Preparing for Essay Exams" will help you adjust to the new environment and expectations of college learning, and a dynamic website that accompanies the text provides you with additional resources for practice, transfer, and self-assessment.
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Dianna L. Van Blerkom is an experienced author and educator. She is an assistant professor in the Academic Support Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, and previously served as the director. She also has published numerous articles and textbooks, including COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR LEARNING: A GUIDE TO COLLEGE SUCCESS, and COLLEGE READING AND STUDY STRATEGIES with co-author Patricia Mulcahy-Ernt.
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- PublisherWadsworth Publishing
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1413033369
- ISBN 13 9781413033366
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number6
- Number of pages363
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