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Information and Study Skills

Good information skills are essential for successful professionals.

Early in your career you must successfully study and digest a huge volume of information, simply to become effective. As you become increasingly successful, you will need to digest huge numbers of documents, data and reports just to do your job, as well as assimilating all the information you need to keep up-to-date in your field.

This section of Mind Tools gives you a range of skills to help you do this. The articles on reading help you to increase your reading speed and become highly selective in what you read. The item on review techniques helps you to keep information fresh in your mind. The article on note-taking gives you a powerful tool for recording useful information.

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	Introduction to Information and Study Skills
	Effective Note-Taking with Mind Maps
	SQ3R - Increasing your retention of written information
	Speed Reading - Substantially increase your reading speed
	Reading Strategies - Reading efficiently by reading intelligently
	Review Techniques - Keeping information fresh in your mind
	Learning Styles - Learn in a way that suits you
	Other Tools - Reviewed... - Our reviews of other important information skills resources
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	4MAT - Delivering instruction everyone understands
	Active Listening - Hear what people are really saying
	Chunking - Grouping information so it's more easily understood
	Communications Planning - Getting the right message over, in the right way
	Concept Attainment - Reaching a shared understanding of important ideas
	The Conscious Competence Ladder - Making learning a more emotionally satisfying process
	The Cornell Approach to Note Taking - Taking notes effectively and efficiently
	Critical Thinking - Developing the skills for successful thinking
	Inductive Reasoning - Drawing good generalized conclusions
	The Ladder of Inference - Avoiding "jumping to conclusions"
	Metaphorical Thinking - Using comparisons to express ideas and solve problems
	Questioning Techniques - Asking questions effectively
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