Learning Strategies for Allied Health Students

At last, there's a resource specifically designed to help prepare allied health students to meet the scholastic challenges they face! Two expert educators offer step-by-step strategies to help students build their vocabulary and reading comprehension, organize their ideas so they can write more clearly and effectively, understand confusing word problems, take effective notes, manage their study time effectively and much more! Contains separate sections filled with strategies for making reading, writing, mathematics, and studying easier. Provides a vocabulary chapter covering the medical and non-medical terms that Allied Health students need to know...with a glossary that summarizes these terms at a glance. Presents 15 reading selections -one for each chapter- that let readers practise using the skills they've learned. Offers exercises from current allied-health textbooks to give students hands-on practice with the kinds of assignments they'll encounter at school. Teaches students "how to" study for tests and "how to" answer test questions to improve grades, with a focus on both short answer and essay type questions. Includes an answer key that allows readers to check their work.