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Learning in College

This section provides additional resources to help you with understanding learning and the CMU resources available to you.

Learning Styles
Writing Resources
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Academic Dishonesty

The video below may help you determine what kind of learner you are (Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic) and techniques that can help you learn material:

Books from the Library

Here are some library books that explain different learning styles and what helps--and hinders--your learning. Also included are books about critical reading:

Academic Reading by Kathleen T. McWhorter
Call Number: LB2395.3 .M37 2007
ISBN: 0321364791
Publication Date: 2006-07-27
This is a print book that will give you guidance on reading and retaining scholarly literature.
Reading Essays by G. Douglas Atkins
Call Number: PE1417 .A77 2008eb
ISBN: 9780820336534
Publication Date: 2010-01-25
The author performs sustained readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this currently resurgent literary form reveals about the "art of living." Atkins's readings cover a wide spectrum of writers in the English language-and his readings are themselves essays, gracefully written, engaged, and engaging.
Clear Writing: Readings in Expository Prose
Call Number: PE1122 .C54 2007 - Book Collection 4th Floor
The Essential College Experience with Readings by John N. Gardner; A. Jerome Jewler
Call Number: LB2343.32 .G37 2006
ISBN: 0534593976
Publication Date: 2005-05-10
This is a print book from the second floor of the University Library. The lead author (John Gardner) is a renowned expert on college students' first year experiences.
The Elements of Learning by James M. Banner; Harold C. Cannon
ISBN: 0300078366
Publication Date: 1999-09-10
This is an eBook.
Ways of Learning by Alan Pritchard
ISBN: 9780415834933
Publication Date: 2013-11-23
Ways of Learning seeks to provide an understanding of the ways in which learning takes place, which teachers can make use of in their planning and teaching, including: An overview of learning Behaviourism and the beginning of theory; Cognitive and constructivist learning; Multiple intelligences; Learning styles; Difficulties with learning; the influence of neuro-psychology; and relating theory to practice.
Handbook of Intellectual Styles by Li-fang Zhang; Robert J. Sternberg; Stephen Rayner
ISBN: 0826106684
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
This is an eBook.

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