Honestly, knowing how use a textbook is not one of my stronger skills. When I do pick up (and dust off) my textbook, I like to use a few simple tips to help me absorb the information to my best abilities. These tips are to take notes on the reading, survey the reading before your read, and to make your own questions for the reading, whether a text book or a novel I always take notes while reading. This helps me recall key facts that could be on the exam or assignment you are studying for. With textbooks I always write down key dates, vocabulary words, and the headings of each section. Surveying the headings of each section helps get your mindset and thinking critically about what you’re about to read. Finally to help recall and memorize what you just read is to make your own questions from the reading. Answering questions about what we read builds memorization on the topics being questioned.
p.s- Texas vs. Texas Tech weekend is not prosperous for studying and doing homework assignments.
Luke--Good thinking here on using textbooks. Those who really "digest" the content and material, by digging in and devouring information from texts, trying them on for size and thinking through each paragraph sincerely, will have more success in college. Yes, many professors do not use the book in class, but yes, they absolutely require you to know the content as prescribed. The onus is on the student. Get some work done this morning before going to the game!
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