ENG 100L
Fall 2010
How can We improve Our Study Habits?
How can we improve our study habits?
Everyone has the experience students, starting from kindergarten to high school or university. For most people, it’s not hard to become a student, but becoming a student who has great grades is not easy. You must want to know what causing this difference. The answer is good study habits. In the process of schooling, many students actually don’t have good study habits. If you want to have a good score, the good study habits can help you more likely to achieve your goals. Improving our study habits can occur in three stages: developing learning habits, using four study skills and understanding the benefits of good habits.
First of all, students should develop a way of learning. In fact, most of them don 't realize that they don’t have completed good study habits. The article “Why ‘good’ study habit may be bad for learning” (2010) talks, "Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe." But this approach to home studying may be the result of "sketchy education research" and, as such, completely wrong.” This article shows us that our traditional sense of learning habit is not correct. Consequently, you might ask what good study habits are. The good study habits including setting a regular time to study that fits in with the student 's family schedule; removing distractions; gathering necessary supplies; recording assignments in an assignment book or on a calendar; note-taking and organizing for a test “Encourage and teach good study habits” (1998). Some people don 't have completed the study habits, and some people know use good habits, but those people easy to give up. Therefore, hanging on to those habits are important factor of our development good study habits.
A second stage is using four study skills to improve your study. The first skill is setting a goal that is a tool to help you achieve your wants; it
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