For courses in Study Strategies/Skills and Reading Improvement. Addressed to the needs of today's diverse college population — students of all learning styles, ages, and backgrounds — this text focuses on a broad range of effective study strategies that can help all students learn to their maximum potential. It emphasizes that a good student knows what to do when confronting problems with comprehension, memory, concentration, test preparation, or any other type of information processing, and — acknowledging that specific strategies for developing such skills will differ according to each student's individual learning style and training — it offers presentations and activities in many different modalities.