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Orlando, Vincent P. – Reading World, 1980
Relates the benefits of a modified version of the SQ3R (survey, question, read, recite, and review) study technique and tells how the modified version emphasizes previewing, reading, reciting, reviewing, and checking notes. Describes a two-phase strategy for training students to use the technique and providing guidance in applying it. (GT)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Study Skills, Teaching Methods

Pauk, Walter – Reading World, 1978
Suggests that the form of note-taking has less significance than the process which goes along with effective note-taking, namely, thinking, summarizing, reciting, and reviewing. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Secondary Education

Annis, Linda F.; Annis, David B. – Reading World, 1982
Concludes that "read only" is the most commonly used study technique by students in grades six through eight, but that it greatly decreases in popularity through high school and into college where it is replaced by a larger variety of techniques involving underlining or note-taking. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Habits, Study Habits

Pauk, Walter – Reading World, 1975
Suggests that reflection is an important study skill. (RB)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction

Anderson, William W. – Reading World, 1975
Discusses some of the outstanding and significant research in recent years relating to the problems of evaluating college reading and study skills programs and the implications for improvement. (RB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Programs

Pauk, Walter – Reading World, 1975
Suggests that learning to skim reading materials is an important study skill. (RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills

Thomas, Keith J. – Reading World, 1979
Suggests three uses of the cloze procedure in content area reading to emphasize particular features such as content, structure, or concept. Provides illustrations of each type of study guide. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Study Skills

Sack, Allan – Reading World, 1974
Examines the Communication Skills Program at Rutgers State University as a model for other college reading programs for improving comprehension and notetaking skills. (RB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Higher Education, Models, Reading Comprehension

Hofler, Donald B. – Reading World, 1983
Offers a procedure for use in teaching students how to outline. (FL)
Descriptors: Classification, Higher Education, Secondary Education, Skill Development

Strickland, Edward – Reading World, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction

Santeusanio, Richard P. – Reading World, 1974
After reviewing the literature on college reading study-skills programs, concludes that the effectiveness of such programs is not established and many of them are not serving the designed purpose. (RB)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Programs

Phillips, George Oliver, Sr. – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth

Pauk, Walter – Reading World, 1983
Explains how a teacher taught his class the value of skimming in developing reading comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension

Stoodt, Barbara D.; Balbo, Elvira – Reading World, 1979
Describes a study in which a content teacher and a reading specialist taught students study skills and content together; analysis of the results showed that students who are taught study skills with content learn better. (TJ)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction

Riley, James D.; Dyer, James – Reading World, 1979
Presents a study in which college students were asked to read or listen to material and to take or not to take notes. Reports that readers remembered more material than listeners and that note taking helped listeners but did not help readers. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Higher Education, Learning Modalities