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Study Smart: Inexpensive Books That Help Raise Grades
in School and College
and Books for Aspiring and Working Writers
by
Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn
Peterson
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"Your teachers have been telling you for years that reading and writing
skills are the key to success. It's certainly true for college
when you'll be reading giant textbooks and writing term papers for all
of your subjects. But in case you need another reason--don't
forget about the SAT revamp, in which you'll have to write an essay.
Brush up your pen and paper prowess with the Study Smart Series.
Among the Series' required reading: The Grammar Crammer, Research
Shortcuts, Secrets to Writing Great Papers and Note-Taking Made Easy."
- excerpted from College Bound Teen, Spring 2004 issue
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Grammar Crammer ($6.95) is a concise, sensible grammar handbook that explains
lucidly how to remember correct word forms and sentence structures. Useful
as a reference tool for high school and beyond, it packs an entire grammar
encyclopedia into just over a hundred pages.
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 Note-Taking
Made Easy ($6.95) is a thorough and systematic presentation of
how to organize notes and take them down. Includes help deciding what is worth noting,
why not to use a tape recorder,
and shortcuts for faster note-taking.
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Research
Shortcuts ($6.95) There are proper ways to research a paper...and there
are the ways most students do it: laboriously, tediously, and inefficiently.
Here are the techniques and shortcuts that the pros use. They will enable
students to find their way to the best resources for their own projects.
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 Secrets
to Writing Great Papers ($6.95) illustrates how to work with ideas—develop
them, hone them, and transform them into words. It provides techniques
and exercises for brainstorming, choosing the right approach, working
with an unknown or boring assigned topic, overcoming writer's block, and
selecting the best point of view.
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Spelling
Simplified ($6.95) Millions of people want to learn to spell correctly,
but they fear the task will be tedious and painful. Now, with the unique,
logical approach presented in Spelling Simplified, anyone can become
a skilled speller quickly and easily. Through the use of simple and effective
exercises and tips, Spelling Simplified illustrates what many poor
spellers forget - that the way a word is spelled is closely related to
the sound and meaning of that word.
Chapters devoted to syllables and stress, patterns in the language,
consonant clusters, and vowel-consonant combinations are included, each
complete with its own set of examples and exercises. From the simplest
root words through longer words derived from foreign languages, Spelling
Simplified guides you through basic techniques for learning how to
"hear" a word, how to master irregularities, and how to form large words
from smaller ones. Breezily written and easy to use, Spelling Simplified
shows that mastering spelling can be painless - and even fun.
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Study
Smarts: How to Learn More in Less Time ($6.95) Some students are not
getting the grades they want, and others spend too much time working for
good grades. Any student can find useful advice in Study Smarts: How
to Learn More in Less Time. Study Smarts is the most complete
and lively guide to streamlined studying. In a highly readable style,
the authors eliminate the confusion and anxiety often felt about keeping
up with course work.
Each chapter explains a different technique, and each chapter title
is a nugget of advice that summarizes that technique. For example, "Eliminate
interference from your environment;" or "Never study anything the same
way twice."
The writers explain how to set goals, take notes, review, cut reading
time, make the most of class discussions, etc., all as efficiently as
possible. Beyond refining basic study chores, there are novel tips for
time management and cramming and special memory techniques. The authors
also tell how to get outside help for special problems.
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Test
Taking Strategies ($6.95)
Test taking is a skill apart from learning course material, a skill
every student must acquire in order to survive. Test-Taking Strategies is the
book for anyone who has ever dreaded an exam. Strategies for taking every
kind of test are dealt with—objective tests (multiple choice, true/false,
matching), essay tests, and oral exams. The authors also offer help for
handling anxiety, explaining relaxation and desensitization techniques
that help students control nervousness and keep it from detracting from
performance. There are tips for managing time during the test, knowing
when to guess, and for pulling answers out of your memory even when the
question drew a blank at first glance.
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Vocabulary Builder ($6.95) Here, finally is the no-sweat way to a larger
vocabulary. Through matching games, fill-in-the-blank games, scrambled-word
games, and more, you are introduced to 600 well-used but often misunderstood
words taken directly from the popular press and found on all vocabulary
skills exams. By meeting and reusing each word at least four times in
the book's word games, its meaning is painlessly reinforced and retested.
At the end of the book, a dictionary-style index of all the vocabulary
words provides pronunciations and definitions.
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