Study Skills for College Athletes

This unique, concise book uses a conversational tone to encourage readers and busy student athletes to immediately improve their learning experience. It provides inspiration and incentive for studying and achieving an education—along with easy-to-understand skills and strategies to become more effective in school. Strategies include setting goals, time management, concentration, and memory. Study skills coverage includes the Cornell Notetaking System and other formats, test taking, vocabulary building, classroom lectures, textbook assignments, and research papers. The book also provides learners with normed diagnostic information about their strengths and weaknesses in learning strategies, goal setting, time management, test preparation and motivation. Quotes from coaches and athletes are interspersed throughout the text. For student athletes who want to excel in learning.