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Improving Memory and Reading
This interactive site from Virginia Tech
helps students to understand how to concentrate and improve memory:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/lynch/ImprovConcentration.htm
Take this memory quiz to test your memory.
It is followed by suggested ways to improve your memory.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/longevity/memory/questions.aspx?xid=nl_EverydayHealthHealthyAging_20090711
Consult the Help Guide for improving memory.
Topics include an explanation of how the memory works, brain exercises,
guidelines to improve memory, mnemonic devices, healthy habits to improve
memory, and memory and aging.
http://www.helpguide.org/life/improving_memory.htm
Use Study Stack to create your own
flashcards online:
http://www.studystack.com/java-studysta/frames.jsp
For more information on memory techniques,
visit Mind Tools at:
http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html
For more information on using mnemonics:
http://www.mindtools.com/mnemeffc.html
The Virginia Tech site has strategies for
improving memory and concentration:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/lynch/ImprovConcentration.htm
The College Atlas contains
information on general study skills, reading and writing, test taking and
preparation, time management, memory techniques and study skills for specific
subjects:
http://www.collegeatlas.org/college-study-guides.html
Read about the Top 10 Memory Improvement
Tips:
http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/tp/memory_tips.htm
Reading Improvement
The Virginia Tech site has many resources
on reading including reading difficult material, interpretive reading, reading
essays,
reading fiction, reading speed and comprehension, reading critically,
pre-reading strategies, marking and underlining and taking
notes from a textbook.
http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
See the Dartmouth College site for Reading
Your Textbook Effectively and Efficiently:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/reading.html
The Virginia Tech website provides a good
review of SQ3R and how to make an action plan for reading your college
textbooks.
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/lynch/TextbookReading.htm
Study Skills Self-Help is available at Virginia Tech University,
including topics on memory and reading:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
Positive Thinking
Read about the Power of Positive Thinking:
http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000009.htm
For famous quotes about positive thinking:
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/positive_thinking/