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Supplemental Materials for EN101
The Successful Writer: From Classroom to Workplace
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Skills Grid


The following websites include a wealth of tips and guides to getting yourself organized, making plans, setting goals, sharpening skills, and managing stress. The skills are arranged in general subject areas with specific skills noted in the column on the left. Each website is listed across the top, with links to specific skills marked "GO."

• EducationAtlas.com: The Study Skills Guide for Students: provides short guides and tips
• How-to-Study.com: A Study Skills Resource Site: provides short guides and tips in the categories of Study Skills, Language Arts, Math, and Taking Tests.
• Mind Tools, Inc.: Career skills resources, including more than 100 skill-builder exercises.
• Study Guides and Strategies: "researched, authored, maintained and supported by Joe Landsberger as an international, learner-centric, educational public service." Includes a special section with learning exercises and games. Please Note: most tips are available in 30 languages.
• Study Skills Self Help Information (Cook Counseling Center, Virginia Tech Division of Student Affairs): Includes many online modules and tests to improve time management, study skills, concentration, note taking skills and writing skills.

• Howtostudy.org: Resources: provides lists of links to sites on organizational and study skills


Steps to Academic Success

The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
College Success              
Setting Goals
GO
GO
GO
Finding a Place to Study
GO
GO
GO
GO
Activities?
GO
GO
GO
GO
GO
Tutors
GO
GO
GO
GO
Study Groups
GO
GO
GO
GO
                 

Sharpening Classroom Skills and Note Taking

The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
Learning Styles
GO
GO
GO
Study Skills Inventory
GO
GO
GO
GO
Multiple Intelligences
GO
GO
GO
GO
Note Taking
GO
GO
GO
Instructor Signals
GO
GO
GO
GO
Useful Abbreviations for Note Taking
GO
GO
GO
GO
Cornell Note Taking Method
GO
GO
GO
GO
Reviewing Notes
GO
GO
GO
GO
Listening Skills
GO
GO
GO
GO
                 
                 
Reading and Retaining What You Read
The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
Textbook Overview
GO
GO
GO
GO
Study Method SQ3R
GO
GO
GO
GO
Reading Textbooks
GO
GO
GO
GO
Text Marking
GO
GO
GO
GO
Reading Comprehension
GO
GO
GO
GO
Memory Skills
GO
GO
GO
Reading Directions
GO
GO
GO
GO
Concentration            

Test Taking Strategies

The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
Test Anxiety
GO
GO
GO
GO
Test Taking
GO
GO
GO
GO
Essay Tests
GO
GO
GO
GO
Multiple Choice Tests
GO
GO
GO
GO
True/False Tests                
Matching Tests                
Short Answer Tests                
                 

Organization and Time Management

The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
Procrastination        
Time Management
GO
GO
GO
Motivation            
Stress            
Budgeting and Financial Matters              

Research

The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
Using Reference Sources
GO
GO
GO
GO
Plagiarism              
                 

Writing and Presentations

The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
Writing a Paper
GO
GO
GO
GO
Writing Techniques
GO
GO
GO
GO
Oral Presentations
GO
GO
GO
GO
                 
                 
                 

Math

The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
Math - Word Problems
GO
GO
GO
GO
                 

Other

The top of each column includes the link to the home pages or skills pages of each of these sites.
 
ASC Materials
Other
Vocabulary
GO
GO
GO
                 


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