The Writing Center provides assistance in composition for anyone in the University Community. For further information about campus services, contact the office of Academic Support Services. Once you have developed a positive study attitude and selected the study theory that you believe will be most effective for you, study techniques pay off. Here are some tips to consider. Keep in mind that you will eventually develop your own individual study style that helps you achieve your academic goals with the least expenditure of time.
Individual study is a lonely business.
It takes a strong person to shut out the rest of the world and sweat it out alone. But you must do it to create an atmosphere that will permit you to concentrate. If you are not careful, you'll lose your forward motion. This can happen if you read so fast you miss the meaning of the words. You will reach a point of diminishing returns in any prolonged study period.