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Effective notetaking 2nd ed: Strategies to help you study effectively Paperback – June 27, 2012
- Print length266 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 27, 2012
- Dimensions6.69 x 0.6 x 9.61 inches
- ISBN-10192716608X
- ISBN-13978-1927166086
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Study skills are an area of particular interest to me. I was one of those annoyingly bright students who never needed to work very hard to do well enough. It was only in retrospect, as my native cunning failed me, that I realized I would have established a better foundation for expertise if I had applied some effective study strategies.
Then again, no one had ever really taught me much in the way of good study strategies. Back when I was at school, teachers probably had a good enough excuse in that no one really knew much about cognition. Cognitive psychology was yet in its infancy!
But we've come a long long way since then, and it has been my pleasure in the last twenty years to watch our knowledge grow, and to tease out from the wealth of research those bits that are of practical help to students and teachers.
Perhaps the most important knowledge we have gained is the realization that 'talent' and 'intelligence' are not the fixed, inborn attributes we thought they were. A lot of it has to do with the education and experiences a child has; a lot of it has to do with attitude. A person who believes that intelligence isn't fixed, that whatever the subject they can master it, is a person who is far more likely to succeed. This isn't some mystical 'think positive' claim. This is because such a person is more likely to find and use effective strategies.
Be that person. (Or if you're a teacher: help your students be that person!)
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Product details
- Publisher : Wayz Press
- Publication date : June 27, 2012
- Edition : 2nd ed.
- Language : English
- Print length : 266 pages
- ISBN-10 : 192716608X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1927166086
- Item Weight : 15.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.69 x 0.6 x 9.61 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,138,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,683 in Adult & Continuing Education (Books)
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About the author

Fiona McPherson has a PhD in cognitive psychology, from the internationally-regarded Psychology Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has spent the decades since that achievement following the research into how the human brain thinks and learns and remembers, and communicating that knowledge and its practical implications to a lay audience. She has done this through her long-running and extensive websites (www.memory-key.com and www.mempowered.com), and her books. Her guiding principle is that people are more likely to use effective strategies if they understand how and why they work, and know precisely when and when not to use them.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2016Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseA very detailed book for the skill in effective notetaking, but if there are more examples and some exercises added, it will be more appreciated.