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Many college students use highlighting as a reading tool. However, despite its popularity, highlighting tends not to be a very effective reading strategy. This handout shares effective reading strategies that you can use instead of or in addition to highlighting and shares tips for highlighting well.
It’s likely that you’ll benefit from contacting a professor at least once during your time in college, and talking with your professors can have many concrete benefits: to help you gain clarity on assignments, understand course content, to learn how to study in a particular course, or to build a relationship with your professor.
Have you ever stopped to think about your habits or how they impact your daily life? Have you ever needed to change your habits because of a new environment like online learning or campus life? According to experts with Psychology Today, habits form when new behaviors become automatic and are enacted with minimum conscious awareness.
Almost everyone experiences stress to some extent, and college students are certainly no exception. Many college students report dealing with varying levels of stress throughout college for a number of different reasons. Stress affects everyone differently and for different reasons, and people respond to stress in many different ways, but it doesn’t have to cripple you or prevent you from reaching your goals. Below you’ll find strategies to reduce and manage stress in college.
Do you sometimes struggle to determine what to write down during lectures? Have you ever found yourself wishing you could take better or more effective notes? Whether you are sitting in a lecture hall or watching a lecture online, note-taking in class can be intimidating, but with a few strategic practices, anyone can take clear, effective notes. This handout will discuss the importance of note-taking, qualities of good notes, and tips for becoming a better note-taker.
While digital distractions are certainly not uncommon, they can be harmful to your study habits, breaking your concentration and rendering your reading or studying habits ineffective.
This handout will help you optimize classroom conversations, whether online or in person. Although every class will have its own conversational dynamics, there are certain strategies you can apply before the discussion, during the discussion, and after the discussion.
his handout discusses why you need a calendar, shares strategies for managing your time, and connects you with resources to help you make the most of each day in college.
Let’s be honest: we all struggle with distractions to some degree. Distractions can take many forms, including our phones, computers, friends, or our own thoughts. In college, distractions can be even more abundant than in high school, because there are so many new opportunities and experiences available.
Annotation is a systematic summary of the text that you create within the document. It can be used as a key tool for close reading that helps you uncover patterns, notice important words, and identify main points. It is also a n active learning strategy that improves comprehension and retention of information.