
Explore tips for learning, studying, exam taking, writing, and researching in this concise course. Download the course handout and free resources to reinforce thinking, logic, and evidence-based skills.
Learn practical tips to study effectively, such as continual effort, avoiding cramming, scaffolding concepts, staying alert, time-boxed study, note-taking, and developing a growth mindset to master material.
Learn practical test-taking strategies and study routines to prepare, manage stress, know format and rules, stay calm, and perform confidently on exams.
Improve your writing with a practical process: plan, outline, draft, and revise for clarity. Learn to tailor your message to readers, use simple language, and organize ideas effectively.
Develop practical paper-writing skills through a milestone-driven process: outline, draft, revise, and cite sources, while avoiding shortcuts and building consistent study habits for clear, honest work.
Apply writing checklists to follow assignment instructions, capture feedback, and craft papers from title to sections, paragraphs, and citations. Build habits through early drafts, final reviews, and academic integrity.
Explore how artificial intelligence aids learning and writing, emphasizing responsible use, process over shortcuts, and skill development through practice with credible source evaluation.
Learn to research by investigating and assessing sources for reliability, credibility, and authority; cite properly to support facts, evidence, and reasoned conclusions.
Conclude by embracing ways to improve how you learn, study, take exams, write, and research with actionable tips and motivating resources.
There are some skills we all need in life, and that we can all improve upon. Those include:
Learning and studying
Preparing for and taking an exam
Writing
Research, investigation, assessment, and deciding.
Whatever you do, want to do, or will do in life, you need those skills. This short course offers some basic pointers to help you with that.
Whatever your current level of education, you can and should continually improve upon these skills.
I share my tips with you, which I developed over years of my own learning, studying, test taking, writing, and teaching.
There is a lot of information and tools out there, including artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us "write". But remember that research, thinking, and writing is a process and not just a destination. Build your skills with honest effort.
This course is not for everyone! It is academic type lectures, using my PowerPoint slides, no fancy graphics, no fancy video editing. It is not entertainment and you will need a ten minute attention span. Take your personal preferences into consideration and see a few sample videos before you decide if this is right for you. If you have a problem or need something, message me.
Spoiler alert: There are no magic short cuts. Let's face it, many promise magic solutions to (1) ace whatever test easily or (2) learn any subject easily, (3) help you become brilliant and with a perfect memory. I do not promise that. I just cover the basics and emphasize solid effort, solid strategies, and so forth.
Why this course? I have been teaching students for a while and I also created certification prep course. Students needed resources on learning, test taking, and writing, so I created them. It was time to share that with a broader audience so I created this course.
I present this valuable information to you for free, as my gift to you.
If you see that it is valuable, as described, and find it worthy of a five star review or other expression of appreciation, thank you.
Building these courses is a hobby for me, I do not have significant video recording skills, nor hardly any video editing skills, and there is no production team. It's slide and lectures. This course has almost no editing, so you will hear my pauses and misspeaks.