Active Study Skills (e-book) (used book) | Colin Murphy | bookbook.eu

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An Oxford Revision Course guide to Active Study Skills This short introduction to active study skills is built on many years of experience as a study skills coordinator and tutor. Designed with the student in mind, each chapter addresses common study skills problems and offers quick and creative solutions. Dealing with time management, setting goals, making good notes and creative techniques to improve study. With chapters on stress reduction and good exam preparation. Colin Murphy is a psychology teacher and study skills coordinator. He is passionate about finding creative solutions that will actually help students to learn in more effective manners. Many of the techniques are tried and tested with his students to find what works best for them. Colin first became interested in study skills techniques when studying Psychology in University College Dublin in the 1990's. This book was built around the suggestions of his students about the most common problems that they had in study. At the heart of this book is the belief that study can and should be interesting and that creative approaches to study, working alongside traditional methods, produces better results. Oxford Revision Course was set up to offer high quality and accessible education to as wide a group as possible, using the best tutors and running a series of courses for English-speaking and international students. Oxford Revision Course guides are designed to share the skills of these tutors to as large a group of people as we can. They also link to top quality courses that help students achieve the best results. The guides are designed to be short and affordable.