Get Connected with Study Skills

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Get Connected with Study Skills

• Ann Dillon
• adillon_at_austincc.edu
• Austin Community College

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Get Connected
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Study Skills for Success

• Goal Setting
• Time Management
• Motivation
• Learning Preferences
• Memory Strategies
• Critical, Creative, and Practical Thinking
• Textbook and Lecture Note Taking
• Exam Preparation and Test Taking
• Communications
• Building Relationships Integrity and Diversity
• Physical Fitness
• Fiscal Fitness
• Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting
• Tackling Research Papers

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Getting Students Connected

• First Class Activities
• Ice Breakers
• Syllabus Collaboration
• Autobiography
• Study Skills Inventory
• Course Activities
• Mentors
• Journals
• Portfolios
• Pop Culture

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Setting Goals for Success

• Specific
• Meaningful
• Accountable
• Realistic
• Timed
• Empowering
• Relevant

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Goal Setting Action Plan

• Write one academic goal for this semester.
• What actions will you take to reach this goal?
• How and when will you know if you achieved this
  goal?
• Will you need someone to help or support you to
  reach this goal? How?
• Do you expect to encounter any obstacles in
  reaching your goal? Potential solutions?
• How will you reward yourself for sticking to your
  plan each week?
• What consequences are you going to impose on
  yourself if you fail to follow through on your
  plan?

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Reading and Writing About Goals

• Reading Intranet and Internet
• Writing
• 1-2 week evaluation intervals
• Are you on track to meet your goals?
• What is working well and what is not?
• What changes do you need to make to achieve
  your goals?

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Get Connected with Time Management

• Time Tracking
• 168 hours per week
• Estimate Ideal Actual
• Sleep
• Eat
• Exercise
• Class
• Study
• Work
• Family, Community
• Socialize
• Internet, MP3, Video, Phone
• Chores
• Shop

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Connecting with Time Management

• Journal Prompts
• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with
  yesterday. Don Marquis
• What can be done at any time is never done at
  all. English Proverb
• You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin
  Franklin

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Overcoming Procrastination

• Habits and Self Change
• Do it now
• Use time between classes wisely
• Work hard for 10 minutes
• Chunk long assignments/projects
• Limit distractions
• Just say no

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Getting and Staying Motivated

• Scavenger hunt
• Campus resources
• Library
• Learning Center
• Counseling Offices
• Faculty Offices
• Student Organizations

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Get Connected with Motivation

• Reading pop culture
• Main Ideas
• Writing paragraphs and essays
• Topic Sentences and Thesis Statements

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Motivation Prompts

• Ability is what youre capable of doing.
  Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
  determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz
• This thing called failure is not falling down,
  but staying down. Mary Pickford
• Success is the ability to go from one failure to
  another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston
  Churchill

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Individual Learning Preferences

• Sensory
• How do I prefer to receive
• information?
• Cognitive
• How do I prefer to think about information?
• Social
• Do I prefer to study alone or with others?

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Get Connected with Learning Preferences

• Reading
• Major Details
• Minor Details
• Writing
• Process Direction
• Process Explanation
• Classification

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Memory Strategies

• Memory Box
• Organization Strategies
• Rehearsal Strategies
• Mind Maps
• Study Review Cards

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Get Connected with Memory Strategies

• Reading
• Graphic Aids
• Writing
• Descriptive Writing
• Imagery

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Critical Thinking

• Making Inferences
• Drawing Conclusions
• Evaluating Arguments
• Get Connected with Reading and Writing
• Tone
• Purpose
• Point of View

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Critical Thinking Strategies

• Jurors obligations
• Seek truth
• Concentrate on evidence
• Look for truth in conflicting arguments
• Lay aside bias and prejudice
• Be led by intelligence, not emotions
• Jurors task identify issue, identify relevant
  evidence, weigh credibility, consider whats
  missing, deliberate, reach verdict

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Practice Critical Thinking

• Library Database Treasure Hunt
• Define topic
• Identify search terms
• Select periodical index
• Select three sources on the topic and evaluate
  each author, publisher, information quality,
  type and length, date
• Search the Internet for the same topic and
  compare-contrast results-credibility, reliability

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Communications

• continuous partial attention Linda Stone
• Speaking and Presenting
• Listening
• Using Technology
• Point and click masters
• Impatience
• Negative impacts interaction on interaction
• Cell phone companions
• Spell/grammar check dependent
• Text message language
• Netiquette spelling, grammar, emoticons
• if u could e-mail me back on your free time
  that would be awesome.
• Although i will not be able to come cause i
  have a test in another class, but Monday sounds
  great. See u then?

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Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting

• Downloads
• Cut and paste from the Internet
• Lack of citations
• Plagiarism screening software
• Multiple draft requirements

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Get Connected with Study Skills

Study Skills
Writing
Reading
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What We Have Is a Failure to Communicate. The
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K.M. and Laura Heinauer. High Schools Failing
College Students. Austin American Statesman. 15
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Information Highway Littered with Roadkill? CMC
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Its Back to the Basics for Many in College.
Houston Chronicle. 26 Sept. 2004
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Teens with the Real World. Wall Street Journal.
15 Oct. 2005.