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Citation
(2001), "Books. The How to Study Book: The Essential Survival Guide", Education + Training, Vol. 43 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2001.00443gad.002
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Books. The How to Study Book: The Essential Survival Guide
Books
The How to Study Book: The Essential Survival Guide
Alan BrownSheldon Press2001£6.99ISBN 0859698513Keywords: Learning, Skills, Students
Students who find themselves drifting off in boring classes, who look back at their own notes only to find them incomprehensible, or who turn into a nervous wreck in examinations will all find helpful advice in The How to Study Book: The Essential Survival Guide. Absorbing, remembering and recalling information will all become less of a struggle with the practical tips offered by its author, Alan Brown, a memory expert who has spent more than 30 years researching how students learn.
The book contains chapters on how individuals learn, the optimal study setting, managing classroom learning, effective reading, digesting information, preparing for tests and sitting tests. The last thing students want when weighed down with coursework and revision is another long book to study. Brown packs his advice into short, easy-to-manage sections with questions to identify one's own learning style, so students can move straight to the advice that will benefit them most.
The book has much to commend it. The presentation is straightforward and direct. Much of the advice given ought to be standard fare in an educational setting but, unfortunately, rarely is. As the author points out, many of the techniques described will improve not only one's educational performance, but also one's performance in the world beyond the classroom. But if part of the test of a good student includes always matching a plural subject with a plural verb, the author, I'm afraid, fails to make the grade.