Study Skills and Report Writing

Library Research Guide

 

 

Printable Research Guide:  StudySkills_ReportWriting.pdf 

 

 

 

Books to help improve your study skills

 

LB 1049.C5816 1990, How to Improve Your Study Skills

LB 1049.C65 1991, What You Need to Know About Developing Study Skills, Taking Notes & Tests

LB 1049.F735 2000, Get Organized

LB 1049.F74 2000, How to Study

LB 2343.C323 1997, The Power to Learn: helping yourself to college success

RESERVE LB2343.32 .S556 2003, The adult student’s guide to survival & success

LB2395 .B317 2005, College success guide : top 12 secrets for student success

LB 2395 .K61993, How to Study: suggestions for high school & college students

LB 2395.P69 2000, Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education

LB 2395.T845 2002, How to Study: a short introduction

 

 

Books to help improve your report writing

 

REF PE 1628.W5631 2005, Webster’s New Explorer Dictionary and Thesaurus

LB 1047.3.F796 2000 Improve Your Writing

LB 2369.B38 2000 The Research Project: how to write it

LB 2369.G53 2003 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

LB 2369.S74 1999 Real A+ College Term Papers

PE 1048.W589 2004 Sin boldly: Dr. Dave’s guide to writing the college paper

PE 1112.S748 2004 Grammatically Correct: the writer’s essential guide to punctuation,spelling, style, sage and grammar

PE 1404.C346 2002 Rehearsing New Roles: how college students develop as writers

PE 1408.R775 2004 The Little Red Writing Book: 20 powerful principles of structure,style, & readability

PE 1408.S68 2004 Writing Clearly: a self teaching guide

PE 1413.L37 2004 The Easy Essay Handbook: a writing guide for today’s students

 

 

Periodicals: Electronic Databases

 

Electronic databases may be used to find citations, abstracts and full-text  articles in journals and newspapers.  The following databases would be useful for searching topics on study skills, grammar, and report writing.

 

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

ArticleFirst (OCLC)

Education Research Complete (EBSCO) 

 

 

Periodicals: Printed Resources in Begley Library

 

Begley Library subscribes to Writer.  Other periodicals may be found by looking in the library’s printed periodical list under the subject “Literature.”

 

 

 Internet

 

Study Skills

Study Guides and Strategies, http://www.studygs.net/

Study Skills from the Augustine Club, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study/

Study Skills Library California Polytechnic State University, http://www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html

Study Skills Self Help Information, http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

 

Report Writing

Dartmouth Writing Program, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/toc.shtml

Great Books Online, http://www.bartleby.com/reference/

Guide to Grammar and Writing, http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Internet Public Library for Teens, http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/

Literacy Education Online, http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/catalogue.html

Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/

Online Writing Lab, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant, http://www.powa.org/

Research Guide for Students, http://www.aresearchguide.com/

 

 

Media

 

VIDEO LB2395 .S82 1999  Study secrets of successful students

VIDEO LB2395 .C66 1995  College success skills all you really need to know. It’s not a memory trick, it really works

VIDEO QA11 .L43 1995  Learning to learn

VIDEO LB1059 .L43 1992  Learning to learn proven strategies for student and workforce success

VIDEO LB2395 .W47 1988  Where there’s a will there’s an-- A how to get better grades in college.

 

 

 Librarians

 

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