This classic text has helped over a million students turn adequate work into excellent work. How to Study in College details such study methods as visual thinking, active listening, concentration techniques, note-taking strategies, and test-taking techniques while incorporating material on life skills.</p>

The Seventh Edition includes an emphasis on life-long vocabulary development using the Word History System, which illustrates words through pictures on a page at the end of each chapter.

Comprehensive coverage includes integrated and simplified presentation of study systems, giving more coverage to the Cornell note-taking systems, SQ3R, and the Questions in the Margins method.