How to become a straight-A student : the unconventional strategies real college students use to score high while studying less
/ Cal Newport.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Broadway Books, c2007.
- vi, 217 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master.
You will learn how to: Streamline and maximize your study time • • Conquer procrastination • • Absorb the material quickly and effectively • • Know which reading assignments are critical—and which are not • • Target the paper topics that wow professors • • Provide A+ answers on exams • • Write stellar prose without the agony.
A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students—with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class.
9780767922715
2006016081
Study skills. College student orientation--United States.