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Chapter 1: What are Study Skills? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2: Metacognition: The Self-Aware Student . . . . . . .7 Chapter 3: A Bit About Brainy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chapter 4: Mental Throwdown: Effort vs. Intelligence . . . . . .25 What Did You Learn in Chapters 1-4? . . . . . . . . 32 Chapter 5: What's in Style? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Chapter 6: Learning Resources & Multimodal Learning . . . . . 41 Chapter 7: There’s More Than One Way to Be Smart! . . . . . . 53 What Did You Learn in Chapters 5-7? . . . . . . . . 61 Chapter 8: That’s My Routine and I’m Stick’n to It! . . . . . . . 63 Chapter 9: The Organized Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Chapter 10: Syllabusted! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Chapter 11: Gettin’ Your Schema On! . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 What Did You Learn in Chapters 8-11? . . . . . . . .99 Chapter 12: Active Learning in a Passive Learning World . . . . .101 Chapter 13: Battle Plan SQ3R .................111 Chapter 14: Hey, Are You Listening? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 What Did You Learn in Chapters 12-14? . . . . . . . 127 Chapter 15: Navigating Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 Chapter 16: Cornies & Indies & Hybrids, Oh My! . . . . . . . . .137 Chapter 17: The Hidden Benefits of Outlining Your Textbook .. . .145 What Did You Learn in Chapters 15-17? . . . . . . . 151
INTRODUCTION TO STUDY SKILLS & THE PROCESS OF LEARNING
LEARNING STYLES & MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
PRODUCT PREVIEW
PRE-LEARNING STRATEGIES
ACTION HEROES: LEARNING,
READING, LISTENING
NOTE-TAKING AND OUTLINING SKILLS
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