Vital Skills

If you are looking for a systematic approach to your studies, look no further. The authors of Vital Skillsare study skills experts who have researched and tested the strategies taught in this book.

Vital Skills will teach you how to: plan and manage your time; get the most out of lectures; organize your notes; improve your long-term memory; reduce test anxiety; prepare for exams.

Vital Skills contains exactly what you need to know and do to achieve academic success!

Kathleen Straker, M.Ed., is a reading specialist who has worked in nursing education and medical education for two decades. The study skills workshops she teaches have helped numerous students graduate to careers in nursing, medicine and research. Eugenia Kelman, Ph.D., is a cognitive-behavioral psychologist. She has served on the faculty and in the administration at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, CO; The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX and at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.