Study Skills and Materials

Resources from Our Office

The Peer Tutors have compiled these PDFs of valuable college and academic success materials!

How to Be the Best Student You Can Be: Learn how to prepare, listen, take notes, and review. Click here!

Tips for Academic Success: Figuring out your learning style and visiting a tutor are just some of the tips listed for Academic Success. For the rest, click here!

Time Management Tips: Learning to say "no" and limiting your study time are just some of the tips listed for Time Management success. For the rest, click here!

How to Survive Exam Weeks: It's crunch time! Make the most of it with these tips!

Office Training Modules

The Peer Tutors and Office Coordinators created some training modules just for Maryville students to increase academic success. Feeling bummed and anxious about a test? Want to calculate your hours of studying/social time per week? Need to assess your learning style? Look no further! We've got just what you need!

 Time Management: You've got a test to study for, but you want to cheer on your friend at the basketball game. How do you make time for both? Check out our personal time survey and our time management inventory!

Study Tips and Note Taking: Make the most of your time in class; take good notes so you can efficiently study them later!

Test Taking: Feeling anxious about an upcoming test? This module includes tips for all students before, during, and after test time.

Helpful Internet Resources

The Peer Tutors find these online resources especially helpful!

Calculate your GPA:

• http://www.back2college.com/gpa.htm

Test Taking Strategies:

 For help during/after class, on test day, and for different types of tests; how to properly organize and study effectively.

• http://www.testtakingcentral.com    

Math:

This website has Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Statistics, and Calculus divisions, and a search bar for specific help.

• http://www.math.com/

• http://sosmath.com/

APA Style:

 For APA-friendly links and a sample paper:

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html

MLA Style:

For MLA-friendly links and sample format:

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01 

AMA Style:

 How to cite in AMA:

• http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citama.htm

Chicago Style:

Chicago Citation Guide:

• http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Sample Chicago-Style Paper

• http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/pdf/chicago.pdf 

Research/Electronic Journals:

• http://www.jstor.org/(for humanities and social sciences)
• http://muse.jhu.edu/ (for humanities, social studies, and mathematics)
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/(for science, technology, medicine, and social sciences)