For World Affairs or any
other course, study skills are important. Having good study habits
will lead students to be more successful. The links below were chosen
to help you improve key learning and organizational skills to help you to
achieve.
Muskingum College offers
a page for high school students to assist in their transition to college.
The links are helpful to any student, college-bound or not. Muskinghum
offers help with:
How-To-Study.com is another site
that gives free advice and study tips. It offers help, just like
Muskinghum, with preparation for studying, note taking, listening strategies
for class, and strategies for taking tests. But this site also offers
different strategies for reading textbooks than for reading novels and also
explains how to best use reference sources.
Study Guides and Strategies is another
site that has lots of resources similar to the previous two. But it
also has multiple strategies for each skill; for example, there are seven
linked strategies just for reading.
Don't forget two of your
best resources . . .
Know It Now links you to online chat
with a reference librarian who can help you find needed book and computer
resources.
Homework Now will link you to
online chat with a teacher who can tutor you in specific subject matter or
can answer content questions for you. It's available 7 days a week,
from 2 pm to 10 pm.