Resources for Students

Time Management

• University of Guelph
  www.learningcommons.uoguelph.ca/ByFormat/OnlineResources/
  Top40StudyStrategies.html

Sleep and Learning

• Sleepless in Loughborough: Sleep Deprivation and Cognitive Function www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/hu/groups/sleep/wellcome.htm

Motivation

• Virginia Tech: study discipline
  www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/studydis.html

Reading

• Virginia Tech: reading/study system  
  www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/sq3r.html
• Analyzing Poetry
  www.sjsu.edu/faculty/patten/vendler.html
• Brock University
  www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html
• "Reading Skills for University" York University
  www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/readingonline/read1.htm

Writing Papers

• Virginia Tech: writing papers www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/writpap.html
• Virginia Tech: term papers www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/termpapr.html

Oral Presentations

• "Making effective oral presentations"
  web.cba.neu.edu/~ewertheim/skills/oral.htm

Objective Tests

• Special Suggestions for Objective Tests: University of North Carolina
  caps.unc.edu/content/view/71/0/1/2/

Essay Tests

• Special Suggestions for Essay Tests: University of North Carolina http://caps.unc.edu/content/view/71/0/1/1/
• Checklist for Essay Tests: Middle Tennessee State University http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/essay.html

Exam Anxiety

• Managing Test Anxiety from Western
  www.sdc.uwo.ca/learning/mcanx.html
• California Polytechnic State University
  www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/tests.panic.tips.html

Note-taking

• "Taking Notes From Lectures" University of Minnesota www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_notetaking.html
• Virginia Tech: note-taking www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/notetake.html
• Virginia Tech: editing notes www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/editing.html

Concentration

• Virginia Tech www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/concentr.html

Memory

• Virginia Tech www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/remember.html
• Virginia Tech: acronyms www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/acronyms.html

Stress Techniques

• Stress (and exams) from Kansas State
  www.ksu.edu/counseling/topics/stress/drstress.html
• University of Buffalo
  ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/stressmanagement.shtml
• University of Buffalo
  ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/stressstudy.shtml

General Study Skills

• University of Chicago
  counseling.uchicago.edu/resources/virtualpamphlets/test_taking.shtml
• The University of Victoria Learning Skills Page
  www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/
• York University www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp
• The University of Minnesota
  www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/

Discipline Specific Study Skills

• Math and Computer Science
  euler.slu.edu/Dept/SuccessinMath.html
• Studying Foreign Languages
  www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study/lingua.html

Additional Links

• University of Michigan
  www.umd.umich.edu/casl/socsci/econ/learning.html
• University of Guelph
  www.learningcommons.uoguelph.ca/index.html