Links to Helpful (and interesting!) Web Resources
Study Skills
What is critical thinking? It's all about questioning authority, and doing it right. Here is a small and authoritative library on the subject.
Inventory of Learning Styles
People all have different styles of learning. Take an interactive test on this website to learn about your own learning styles. Click on "ILS questionnaire--Web version" at the bottom of the page. When you are finished with the test, print the results page, and then click on "Descriptions of the Learning Styles."
Oklahoma State's College Prep Page
Sign in, then click on "Study Skills." This is the most comprehensive site on study skills on the web, with in-depth lessons that change daily, designed by some of the foremost educators on reading and study skills in the country! (You can even take it as a credit-bearing course through Oklahoma State.)
South Australia University's Study Skills Page
Check out their online tutorial on motivation. Wow!
Sleepless At Stanford: What all Undergraduates Should Know About How Their Sleeping Lives Affect Their Waking Lives
Dr. Dement wrote the book on sleep. Read it & sleep.
St. Lawrence's Munn Writing Center
All about how you can find free and fast help for your writing at SLU!
A Web of Online Dictionaries
Find any word in any language from Afrikaans to Xhosa (even English!).
A visual representation of relationships between similar words. (Click on "loaded, click to launch" when the page comes up.)
Dozens and dozens of clear explanations and useful exercises.
Learning Disabilities
LDOnline: The Interactive Guide to Learning Disabilities
A great source for information about learning disabilities on the web.
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