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Learning Skills

The Keynesian Revolution is described by Kit Sims Taylor, a Professor of Economics at Bellevue Community College in Washington State.

The biggest and best sites offering information on a wide range of learning skills.

Note: there is some overlap between sites.

Virginia Polytechnic Student Counselling Center has a large amount of information for students under the heading Study Skills Self-help Information At this site you will find excellent thoughts on such topics as: Time Scheduling, Control of the Study Environment, Constructive Suggestions Regarding Motivation, Note Taking and In-Class Skills, Priority Setting, Dealing with Procrastination, How to Read a Difficult Book, Remembering, Skimming and Scanning Material.

The Counselling Services at George Mason University provide on-line information about the following: Study Strategies, Exam Strategies, Depression, Eating concerns, A College Student's Guide to Psychopharmacology and Time Management.

The University of Toronto promises Successful Learning with links to information on: Effective Reading, Note Taking in Lectures, Concentration, Memory and Preparing for Exams.

The University of Columbia's Study Skills Page gives advice on: How to make best use of your time, The Importance of Sleep to Long-Term Memory, Studying with Intensity, Focussing and Reading and How to improve your comprehension.

Tips on Studying Economics in Particular

The University of Texas provides Study Tips for Economics Courses includes tips on studying economics, taking economics exams and working with graphs in economics. If you scroll down to the end of the study tips you will find a very interesting discussion of the question: Learning Economics: is it impossible or just imposing?

Las Vegas is the place to go to read about effective study methods for economics students.

The Department of Economics at Syracuse University has an EXCELLENT SITE to teach you Graph Skills. This one is GREAT!!

The Department of Economics at Syracuse University also provides for your entertainment a Self-Assessment Test and Tune-Up Materials. (Note that on the first page there is continual reference to maths skills, maths test etc. Don't be misled by this. All of the notes and the tests deal with graphs and graphical skills.) By the way, the tests are anonymous, so have no fear - you don't have to identify yourself. The Graph Skills Self-Assessment Test is designed to provide you with information about your knowledge of some specific graph skills that are necessary for the successful completion of an introductory economics course.

You will find links to a very large amount of teaching and learning materials in economics subjects HERE.

The Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne has a page dedicated to Concept Mapping. This technique can be of enormous benefit in studying and especially in summarising material.

Having problems with statistics or maths?

A Basic Statistics Course is available on-line from the College of Education at Arizona State University.

David M. Lane of Rice University in Texas has set up an excellent hypertext statistics book.

Dr. Keith Dear's SurfStat.Australia at the ANU is an on-line statistics course.

A small number of students find statistics very very daunting. There are a number of good introductory books aimed specifically at those students. These include (note: these are not internet sites):

D Rowntree, Statistics without tears, Penguin books
G Kranzler & J Moursund, Statistics for the terrified, Prentice-Hall.
St Louis University offers Success in Mathematics with tips on how to study mathematics, how to approach problem-solving, how to study and how to take tests.

Especially for international students

Documents available from the University of Texas at Austin's Learning Skills Center include advice on: How to Get More Practice in English Conversation together with Guidelines for Understanding Articles (the word 'articles' here refers to the use of 'a', 'an' and 'the' in English conversation and writing) and Problematic Prepositions. They also give you some ideas on Vocabulary Improvement: Ways and Means

Writing skills

Advice on Academic Writing comes to you from the University of Toronto.

Excellent Grammar and Style Notes have been written by Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania.

IMPORTANT advice on how to acknowledge sources in your writing using a variety of reference styles is given by the Learning Skills Unit at the University of Melbourne.

Finally

You should also visit our faculty's Teaching and Learning Unit.

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