Writing Summaries

Writing good summaries requires accurate reading and the ability to find the main idea and most important supporting evidence in a piece of writing. Summaries are always quite a bit shorter than the original text, perhaps 75 percent shorter. When you write a summary, you give your readers an idea of the content of an article or book and save them the time and trouble of reading the entire original.

How to Study Mathematics

Before I get into the tips for how to study math let me first say that everyone studies differently and there is no one right way to study for a math class.  There are a lot of tips in this document and there is a pretty good chance that you will not agree with all of them or find that you can’t do all of them due to time constraints.  There is nothing wrong with that.  We all study differently and all that anyone can ask of us is that we do the best that we can.  It is my intent with these tips to help you do the best that you can given the time that you’ve got to work with.