Briefly describe the three major types of study skills and show how they help us to become better learners.

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 Three major types of study skills and show how they help us to become better learners:

Following are three major types of study skills and show how they help us to become better learners:

1 Gathering skills: These skills enable learners to identify and locate relevant information. These skills include reference skills and sub-skills of reading, viz. scanning and skimming.

Together they equip the learner with the tools to find sources of information. Reference skills can be further subdivided according to the material to be consulted into the following:

use of the dictionary, thesaurus, etc.

use of the library

These are also known as reference skills and enable a learner to gather information as quickly as possible.This requires two sub-skills: locating and comprehending information.

2 Storage Skills: As the name suggests, storage skills involve the ability to store information for ready retrieval and use.

You may ask: What is so difficult about ‘storing’ information? Once we have read and understood some information, is it not automatically stored in the memory? I would say, ‘partly yes’ and “partly no’. 

What does this mean? We do remember what we read/listen to, but not everything. So, most of us hasten to copy down important facts.

3 Retrieval Skills: While writing an examination, or participating in a conference or seminar, students need to summarise their ideas in a coherent form, so that their readers can understand them.

Or sometimes they have to prepare a research abstract based on their reading. The student will of course base their summary or abstract on the notes they had prepared earlier.

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