Study Resources for College Students
THE PURPOSE OF STUDY GUIDES is to guide you to organize lecture notes and text book material, so you can increase your comprehension and retain a large amount of information. Study guides that are visual are even more effective, as the visual organization helps you see related concepts and make meaningful connections with the textbook information, which results in acquiring higher levels of understanding, as expected by many of your professors.
Study Elements has created specific resources to help you not only study, but also understand the information you’re studying. The study guides are organized for you by key concepts from the textbook – saving you time and increasing your focus and motivation.
Latest Resources
Principles of Microeconomics – A Textbook Study Guide
21 unit study guide on Principles of Macroeconomics. Each unit is 4 - 8 pages and this study guide has 140 pages in all. Study Guide is in zip file to be extracted.
Introduction to Business – A Textbook Study Guide
This textbook study guide is 200+ pages, 16 chapters, covering all subjects of the college course "Introduction to Business." Files are in PDF and Microsoft Word.
Sociological Research – Free Unit on Introduction to Sociology
This unit is part of the full bundled 21 chapter Introduction to Sociology. This unit is free for your trial and experience with this website and its materials. Feel free to download, use it to support you in this chapter and consider leaving a message or sharing the facebook page @studyelements
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Sociology covers 21 units a total of 105+ pages. Each unite contains about 5 pages.
This study guide supports students' study in introduction to sociology class typically called "Introduction to Sociology 101"
Concepts covered on each unit includes the following:
Introduction to Sociology
Sociological Research
Culture
Society and Social Interaction
Socialization
Groups and Organization
Deviance, Crime and Social Control
Media and Technology
Social Stratification in the United States
Global Inequality
Race and Ethnicity
Gender, Sex and Sexuality
Aging and the Elderly
Marriage and Family
Religion
Education
Government and Politics
Work and the Economy
Health and Medicine
Population, Urbanization and the Environment
Social Movement and Social Change
Principles of Economics – Macroeconomics Around the World
THIS IS A FREE UNIT its from the bundle - check it out to see if it will work for you.
Preparing for tests often involves more than just knowing facts, figures, formulas and definitions. Many professors expect you to demonstrate critical thinking, which involves more than just memorizing. You need to organize and process course concepts, so that you can increase your comprehension, and the ability to think critically on the content covered in the course.
How do study guides help you?
Study Elements promotes on demand downloadable study guides and resources for college students without a subscription.
90% of college students say they struggle to find study resources for their courses.
Study guides are visual and effective, because it helps you see and manipulate related concepts. This initiates you to make meaningful connections with the course content. It then results in the higher level learning expected by many of your professors.
You can use the resources here to do the following:
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Organize textbook notes
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Guide study groups
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Guide questions to the professors for clarification on content
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Prepare for exams more efficiently
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Manipulate information to retain and understand content more thoroughly.
These techniques work together so you can study more effectively.
Although simple repetition does help us learn, psychological research has found that we acquire information most effectively when we actively think about or elaborate on its meaning and relate the material to something else. (This means the use of flashcards are minimally effective tools for studying.)
Study resources here, in Study Elements, do just that, they will guide you to manipulate and apply the subject concepts through your world knowledge, materials you’ve read/studied or your life experiences. The purpose is to help you build a deeper level of critical knowledge of the content.
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