Essays on Study Skills

In the Article “Time of day and retrieval from long term memory” By Keith Miller, Brian C. Styles and David G. Wastell they state that long term material would be learned in the afternoon than compared in the morning. According to the article your arousal…

Dark chocolate contains Epicatechin (Epi) flavanol. Researchers have found that (Lymnaea) snails experienced enhanced memory formation following exposure to Epi as observed through monitoring the snails’ aerial respiratory behavior. Additionally, exposure to Epi has also been shown to relieve stress which hindered learning new behaviors…

Even the smallest and most insignificant animal needs to have the ability to remember. This includes the seemingly ignorant snail which has to recall which foods are safe for consumption, and the sound their predator makes, among other important information. After all, this would ultimately…

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 this study, Pool, Carter, Johnson, and Carter documented the designing of a Tier 2 math intervention during a case study that involved ten third graders in a school located in northwestern part of the United States. Every school who designs a tiered intervention system…

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…

My name is Ong Nyee Ning, I am the students of batch 2018/04 of the degree in Chemical Engineering with honours. This is the first time I am having a community service course. Our community service project is “Dental & Oral Care”. Throughout this event,…

‘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…