Links
The following websites provide more information on strategies for studying, writing papers, and taking tests.
Study Strategies Homepage-University of Minnesota Duluth
This site has a very organized setup, which starts with a self-assessment of your current study skills. There is also a section divided into 3 sections: learning skills, practicing the skills, and teaching/managing the skills. Information ranges from motivation and goal setting to accommodating different learning styles, and even has a weekly schedule that you can print and use.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
This site has information on how to go about the writing process, including documenting your sources and producing papers in various disciplines, plus information on using PowerPoint, writing resumes, and English as a second language (ESL).
Study Skills Self-Help Information (Virginia Tech)
This is an all-around useful site with information and ‘self-help’ strategies ranging from time management to how to read a difficult book to writing papers. There’s also a study skills checklist that can help you identify problem areas.
The University of Texas Learning Center
This site includes basic study skills strategies but also offers information on preparing for the GRE and other graduate school entrance exams, speed reading, and test anxiety.
University of Western Ontario Student Development Center
This site includes an academic success checklist, where you can rate your learning skills. One helpful component is the “Top Ten Tips for Academic Success” (available within the Learning Topics Online section).
Study Skills Topic Page
This site is not as large as the others but there is some useful advice such as listening in class and reading more effectively as well as how to write index cards for oral presentations.
Study Skills-Middle Tennessee State University
This site has a ‘Strategies for Success’ list towards the bottom of the site, listing such strategies as “Ten Tips You Need to Survive College” and “Strategies for Taking Any Tests.”
Study Skills Package-University of Waterloo
This site has helpful tools dealing with learning and remembering, time management, reading, concentration, preparing for exams, and even cramming. There are many different approaches for each section and they offer explanations about why you should try each technique as well.
Dartmouth Academic Skills Center
This site discusses time management, textbook reading, where/how to study, how to manage stress/anxiety. It also offers QuickTime videos on academic success subjects like notetaking, time management, and stress management.
