STUDY RESOURCES
Students often believe that the highest grades go to the
brightest students. A more accurate statement, however, is that the highest grades go to the best students--those people who
have learnt how to be good students. College and university study is like everything else: skills are required to do
well. Despite the fact that we spend upwards of one-quarter of life in school, few people take the time to learn these skills.
At Nelson Education, we want to help you earn higher grades in less time. On this page, we provide you with
dozens of carefully selected websites that offer clear, effective instruction on key academic skills.
Study
Strategies
A
list of key study tips; considerable detail
Critical
Thinking, for all disciplines
Time
Management for Students from York University
Effective
Study Strategies (UC Berkeley)
Book
Reviews (University of Toronto)
Four
Time-Management Don'ts for Students
Procrastination:
Ten Ways to Do It Now!
Note
Taking and In-Class Skills
How
to Read a Difficult Book
Writing
Essays and Reports
Monash
University
University
of New South Wales
James
Cook University
Estudy
Centre
Writing
at the University of Toronto
The
Writing Centre, Queens University
Berkeley
Online Writing Lab
Dartmouth
College
Counselling
Centre (State University of New York at Buffalo)
University
of Victoria Writer's Guide
A
great starter-kit for writing essays
A
great intermediate level essay-writing guide for undergraduates
Tips
for great essay writing
A
guide for essay writing; includes a link for citing sources
Tips
on essay writing; includes links to other writing assignment resources
A very
detailed description of essay writing; includes a description of how
to structure each paragraph
A
low-level, but well-organized site for essay writing
Reference Material: Where to Get Information Online
Brittanica
Online: Possibly the best source of reputable reference information
on the Internet
Funk
and Wagnall's Multimedia Encyclopaedia
Encarta:
Microsoft's Reference Site
Statistics
Canada Home Page
Refdesk.com:
A commercial site with dozens of links to reference material on the
Internet
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