Study Guide Book Recommendation

eva11

Looking for recommendations on study guide books that will help me to get prepared and ready for my Distance Learning Degree. especially one that helps me get organised and teaches me to utilise my time wisely!!!

Any recommendations will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

edna_clouds

the open university do a study guide which is very good!

Tallulah22

i have a Stella Cottrell book called The Study Skills Handbook, and its my bible!

studentphil

I got OU study guide for fiver in a sale. It is a touch dated, but very useful for all the key skills.

DrFluffy

Most of it is common sense, and a book isn't going to teach you that - it will just rob you of £20 odd, and *just* buying a book will not guarentee anything...

Get assignments done at the first opportunity, don't leave revision to the last mintue, try to work consistantly. Treat yourself for making deadlines.

If you are doing distance learning, have protected study time (and at the same time each week) and stick to it - never use it for anything else, other than the most severe emergency.

Also, it's surprising where you can find "dead time", I get so much reading done on the bus between home and the hospital I'm currently based at - time that otherwise would be lost...

eva11

Have managed to borrow the OU book and have ordered the Stella Cottrell book as well
Thanks everyone

Tallulah22

Hope it helps you the way you want it too.

pavlovs_dog

just wanted to second the stella cottrell book, it is very well written and very user friendly :beer: copies quite often pop up on ebay, but go very quickly