Strategies for reading and study skills /
Richard Pirozzi.
- Lincolnwood, Ill. : NTC Pub. Group, c1995.
- xiv, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Content Part 1 Study and classroom skills
Chapter 1 Getting started Setting your long-range goals Managing your time Getting support at home and at school Setting specific study goals improving Finding a place to study Etc
Chapter 2 Effective classroom note taking Introduction Lecture 1: Effective classroom note taking Lecture 2: Introduction to the middle east Lecture 3: The nursing process
Chpater 3 Effective test taking Lecuter: Effectivetest taking Preparing for the test Taking the test What to do after the test
Part 2 Dealing effectively with textbook material Chapter 4 Vocabulary Using the context Using word parts Using glossary Using the dictionary Learning and reviewing
Chapter Finding topics and main ideas The bmain idea as the first sentence The main idea as the last sentence The main idea between the first last sentence The main idea as two sentence The main idea that covers more than one paragraph Etc
Chapter 6 Finding major and minor details Identifying deatils
Chapter 7 Recognizing patterns of organization Simple listing of facts Form 1: Numbered within one paragraph Form2: Number over one tha one paragraph Form 3: Unnumbererd within one paragraph From 4: Unnumberred over more than one paragraph Chronical oder Etc.
Chapter 8 Organizing textbook material Outing Making diagrams (mapping) Summarizing and paragraphing
Chapter 9 Uisnug inference Reading between the lines (exercise 1) Making educated guesses (exercise 2) Developing inference questions (exercies3 )
Chapter 10 Five to effective textbook reading Step 1 Overview the textbook Step 2 Preview each chapter beofore reading Step 3 Construct a broad topic outline of teh chapter Step 4 Turn chapter headings into questions and read to find the answer Special feature: Front matter and chapter 8 the college textbook tools for technical and professional communication
Part 3 Change of pace reading Section 1 The dark menace Section 2 The experience of lifetime Section 3 The trajectories of genius Section 4 Why run Section 5 With no parents, Ladeeta, 18, presses on