MURDER - A Study System
- Mood: Set a positive mood for yourself to study in.
- Understand: Mark any information you don’t understand in a particular unit; Keep a focus on one unit or a manageable group of exercises.
- Recall: After studying the unit, stop and put what you have learned into your words.
- Digest:
Go back to what you did not understand and reconsider the information.
Contact external expert sources (e.g. other books or an instructor) if
you still cannot understand it.
- Expand: In this step ask three kinds of questions concerning the studied material:
- (A) If I could speak to the author, what questions would I ask or what criticism would I offer?
- (B) How could I apply this material to what I am interested in?
- (C) How could I make this information interesting and understandable to other students?
- Review:
Go over the material you’ve covered, remember what strategies helped
you understand and/or retain information, apply these strategies to
your future studying
(Adapted by Bob Nelson from The Complete Problem Solver, 1989) www.iss.tthomas.edu/studyguides.htm
