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How to Improve your Memory for Study (Smarter Study Skills)

How to Improve your Memory for Study (Smarter Study Skills)

by Jonathan Hancock (Author)

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Synopsis

This book will show you how to use memory to revolutionise the way you study. It combines the latest research about how the memory works with practical strategies for putting it to use in every aspect of study. How To Improve Your Memory explores everything we know about the thinking and learning skills required to succeed. It's about developing a smart and efficient approach, using the brain at its best, and taking the stress and strain out of study in all its forms. This text is designed to interest, reassure, inspire, train -- and, ultimately, to make studying in all its forms more enjoyable and more successful.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 216
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Pearson
Published: 15 Nov 2011
ISBN 10: 0273750054
ISBN 13: 9780273750055
Book Overview:

Know how to use your memory well and you can enjoy taking on new learning challenges. You save time, get better results, have fun, and train your brain for ever more purposes, developing a confident approach to thinking and learning in general.


Author Bio

Jonathan Hancock is a graduate of Oxford University, a double world record breaker and former World Memory Champion, and the author of nine books on memory and learning. His tenth has just been published as part of Hodder's popular Teach Yourself series. He has demonstrated his learning techniques on numerous radio and TV programmes, run memory training courses in business and education, and now works as a teacher in a busy city school. In 2008 he joined forces with The Learning Skills Foundation to become Founder of The Junior Memory Championship, the first national memory competition for primary-school children. He is preparing to launch The Senior Memory Championship.

Foreword by Professor Alan Baddeley. With degrees from the Universities of London, Princeton and Cambridge, he is a world authority on human memory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Advisor to The Learning Skills Foundation. Alan Baddeley has a number of honorary degrees, and was awarded the CBE for his contribution to the study of memory.