Study
Skills Self-Help
This site from the Counseling Center at Virginia Tech. Gives the
visitor an extensive list of links to resources to help improve his/her
study skills on their own. Areas include: Time management, test taking,
reading comprehension, concentration, note taking, analyzing essays,
and much more.
Study
Skills and Learning Assistance
Richland Community College has developed this site to help students
improve their study skills. Topics include: mathematics assistance,
reading skills, writing skills, public speaking Skills, stress
management, note taking, test taking, and time management.
Study
Skills Help Page
This page, from the Development Studies Department of Middle Tennessee
State University, is a course to help high school students make the
transition to college. Links include: taking notes, taking tests, essay
exams, and much more.
Education
World
The unique attribute of this site is that, rather than providing global
suggestions to improve studying, links lead to ideas that are targeted
to particular subjects (i.e., English, math, political science).
Sites
to Promote Academic Success
The Psychology Department of the University of Northern Iowa sponsors
this site with numerous practical suggestions to improve studying.
Topics include: time management, goal setting, learning strategies,
memory principles, organization, test taking strategies, and much more.
Research and
study Skills 101
This resource is "an interactive online tutorial for students wanting
an introduction to research skills. The tutorial covers the basics,
including how to select a topic and develop research questions, as well
as how to select, search for, find, and evaluate information sources."
While some of the information is specific to the University of
Washington Libraries, this nationally- recognized tutorial has global
utility.
Quick
Study: Library Research Guide
This site from the University of Minnesota (UM) Libraries has eight
modules designed to teach library research techniques. The modules
include "the process of choosing a topic; designing a research
strategy; finding different kinds of sources such as articles, books
and internet sites; evaluating sources; [and] essential citation
information." Although some of the information is specific to the UM,
much of it can be applied to research in any library.
Study Guides and
Strategies
The Study Guides and Strategies web site is authored, maintained, and
revised on an on-going basis by Joe Landsberger, web site developer at
the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. It contains a
comprehensive compendium of resources and study guides for learners
available in 25 languages from Arabic to Turkish.
Academic
Success Center
This excellent site is sponsored by the George Washington University
Counseling Center's online guide to better academic results! Here
you'll find a number of topics and links to resources that will help
you study more effectively and improve academically. Links are arranged
to make it possible to jump to any topic that pertains to your own
situation. Forms and charts may be downloaded and printed as worksheets
for your personal use.
Assignment
Calculator
Do you or your students have trouble procrastinating? This site from
the University of Minnesota libraries is too cool to pass up. It
permits you to enter your project's due date and an optional subject
area from a list of over 230 fields of study. You are then given a 12
step "how to" with specific date and time milestones for each step.
There are also links that give advice on how to accomplish each step.
Bowdoin College
Writing Guide
This extensive guide to writing history papers is divided "into several
categories: reading, writing, researching, and evaluating"; some topics
about thesis writing are covered in depth in several different
sections. This is an excellent site, but it does take an uncommonly
long time to load.
Avoiding
Plagiarism
The Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers this page on how
students can avoid plagiarism. It provides a brief overview of
contradictions in academic writing, actions that might be seen as
plagiarism, and guidelines for researching, quoting, paraphrasing, and
deciding if something is common knowledge. Includes exercises and a
brief bibliography.
Synthesis:
Using the Work of Others
This tutorial explains plagiarism and its consequences and describes
techniques for taking notes and quoting sources to avoid plagiarism.
Includes a section on copyright, information about citing Web sources,
and plagiarism and copyright infringement quizzes. From the University
of Maine.