| Study Smarts: How to Learn More in Less Time Contributor(s): Kesselman-Turkel, Judi (Author), Peterson, Franklynn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299191842 ISBN-13: 9780299191849 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $9.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: THE STUDY SMART SERIES, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays. Some students are not getting the grades they want, and others spend too much time working for good grades. Any student can find useful advice in "Study Smarts: How to Learn More in Less Time." "Study Smarts" is the most complete and lively guide to streamlined studying. In a highly readable style, the authors eliminate the confusion and anxiety often felt about keeping up with course work. Each chapter explains a different technique, and each chapter title is a nugget of advice that summarizes that technique. For example, " Eliminate interference from your environment; " or " Never study anything the same way twice." The writers explain how to set goals, take notes, review, cut reading time, make the most of class discussions, etc., all as efficiently as possible. Beyond refining basic study chores, there are novel tips for time management and cramming and special memory techniques. The authors also tell how to get outside help for special problems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - General - Study Aids | Study & Test-taking Skills - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
| Dewey: 371.3 |
| LCCN: 2003045828 |
| Series: Study Smart Series |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.56" W x 8.06" (0.26 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a reputation as a fiercely independent, aloof heiress who associated with fascists in the 1930s. In Romaine Brooks: A Life, art historian Cassandra Langer provides a richer, deeper portrait of Brooks's aesthetics and experimentation as an artist--and of her entire life, from her chaotic, traumatic childhood to the enigmatic decades after World War II, when she produced very little art. This provocative, lively biography takes aim at many myths about Brooks and her friends, lovers, and the subjects of her portraits, revealing a woman of wit and passion who overcame enormous personal and societal challenges to become an extraordinary artist and create a life on her own terms. Romaine Brooks: A Life introduces much fresh information from Langer's decades of research on Brooks and establishes this groundbreaking artist's centrality to feminism and contemporary sexual politics as well as to visual culture. Best books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association |