Essays on Study Skills

Study Skills Project #2 Plan: For this study skills project, I changed my note-taking strategy in a number of ways. First of all, I started typing up my notes rather than hand-writing them. Second, I tried out Newport’s question-evidence-conclusion method. The class that I tried…

According to a study by students of Hazara University they found that the girls they studied were better in using study skills compared to the boys studied. (Fazal, Hussain, Majoka, & Masood, 2012) Girls were scoring higher in test scores because they were “self-regulated” learners…

A troubling phenomenon is occurring throughout the nation’s high schools. Students in the United States are not leaving high school prepared for college. Students are not passing in the Math and English placement exams that are required for entry level college placement. Why is this?…

In “Working at McDonald’s,” Amitai Etzioni argues that “after school jobs” such as McDonald’s are not helpful to today’s youth, but in fact they harm them in many ways and limit their potential. Some of the ways which Etzioni points out that youth are being…

To start, one concept that I have learned would be monomyth. Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and the whole mythic structure/stages ranging from “Ordinary World” to “Rebirth and The Champion’s Return” were quite informative. Before I learned about monomyth, I always had the assessment that stories comprised…

Related Local Studies According to Mamon, M. A. C., Suba, R. A. V., and Son, I. L (February 9, 2018), low perception on disaster risks are evidently observed among senior high school students. The students’ responses could be developed on the effectivity and influence of…

‘What is cosine of π/2? I asked quietly in mathematics to my peers to save the embarrassment of asking this simple trigonometry question to my teacher. ‘0’ everyone yelled. And so I continued the worksheet, with the thought of ‘Why does is equal 0’ circling…

Plagiarism policy is a serious issue every student face during academic life. It can cause not only failure in a particular subject but also being expelled from college or university. These measures are implemented on purpose. In real-world duplicated content is a reason for a…