College Life

Every college student needs to purchase text books, and whether you want to buy new, or used, let me show you step by step on how you can find the best deals online, or in the store.

With the price of college increasing with every new school year, it is important to save both time and money whenever possible. One of the largest expenses outside of tuition is the price of...

How to Textbooks Selling to Make Money. If you’ve ever purchased textbooks then tried to sell them back to the bookstore, you know how disheartening it is to only receive pennies on the dollar...

Writing a book report for college? Here's a step-by-step guide to make it quick and easy.

Going to college can be very stressful and expensive for a student. Many of us are deciding how we are going to pay for college and still keep up on all our other bills. Textbooks can wind up...

Learn to read actively analysis and digging deeper into the meanings of books and passages

Buying textbooks for school is something that can get very expensive. Sometimes buying used books directly from your school isn't always the cheapest options. Learn other ways to spend less on...

Once a course is completed, textbooks can quickly become a pile in a corner or can sit unused on a bookshelf. As the cost of textbooks continues to rise, the market for used editions has grown....

Many college students are filled with excitement and dreams of what their lives are going to be like when they are making money after graduation. When the reality of what it costs to attend...

Save money on college textbooks! Cheap college textbooks are difficult, but not impossible, to find. Depending upon the college you attend and your networking ability, you may be able to find...

Its Back-to-School time and we all know that entails buying supplies and getting prepped for the schoolyear ahead. Textbooks are an investment that you really want to protect. If you plan on...

Whether your reading for classes or reading for fun, its always good to take notes on what you read so that you can understand what you just read better. Many people have different ways to do...

Alot of kids struggle with the concept of annotating a book! Its truely not that hard if you know what your looking for!

Are the textbooks at the college itself really expensive? I know they are from experience. You don't HAVE to buy them from the school directly.

So you want dirt cheap textbooks and don't want to pay 100 dollars per book hey who doesn't. With a couple little tricks and an extra twenty minutes you can save yourself half of what you would...

Have you ever "woken up" while reading to discover that you are 20 pages ahead of where you last remember, but you can't remember a thing in between? These tips are focused on keeping...

So you are off to college and broke. Here are a few tips to get some quick cash.

How many times have you read something, only to finish and realize, you don't remember what you read at all? A common problem among readers is not absorbing the information, just glossing over...

Do you wonder how some people are so quick to remember and understand what they are reading? Here you will learn some of the effective techniques they apply to easily grasp the ideas from...

College is expensive but there are ways to make it more affordable. Simple cost-cutting methods add up to big savings over time.

Note-taking is a critical skill for students. The purpose of taking notes is to help you recall information by referring to your notes instead of referring to the original source. Good note-taking...

Selling used college text books is easy. You have many options as far as how you can do this. The easiest way would be to sell them back to the on-campus bookstore, but if you didn't buy the books...

If you are a college student, then you know how expensive college textbooks can be. You spend $100 or more for a textbook, and before you know it the semester ends and you are left with a huge,...

Writing a critical review on a work of academic scholarship can be a daunting task, yet one that is increasingly requested of undergraduate and graduate students alike. Following this basic...

Most of the research papers that you write in high school or college require you to cite the sources from which you found your information. In MLA style, there is a different format for each...

One of the most expensive parts of college is buying textbooks that you only use for a semester or you don't use it at all! There is a way to save and gain back money on your textbooks! All you...

Many students find themselves with a large amount of reading to do in a small amount of time. However, most reading can be easily skimmed using this technique. This process works well for most...

If you've ever had to do a short book review or if for any other reason you need to skim a book instead of reading every single page, here is probably the best method to use.

Sometimes, when a book is very popular, it may be published without any type of revision. This does not make it a different edition, but rather a republication. When using one of these books as a...

Sometimes, when a book is very popular, it may be published repeatedly with major or minor changes and additions. These revisions make each publication a different edition, even though the book...

Throughout academia, Harvard style is the most popular citation method. References and citations are methods of giving credit for research that you use to base your own conclusions in your...

When writing a term paper or working on a longer term research project, it is important to keep track of your sources of information so that you can credit them for contributing to your own...

When you are writing a term paper or working on a longer term research project, it is important to keep track of your sources of information so that you can credit them for contributing to your...

When writing a term paper or working on a longer term research project, it is important to keep track of your sources of information so that you can credit them for contributing to your own...

When researching a term paper or other longer term project, it is important to document the ideas, concepts and theories upon which you base your own thesis and draw your own conclusions. Failure...

Harvard style is the most commonly used academic citation method in the world. References and citations are methods of giving credit for concepts and ideas that you use as bases for your own...

Harvard style is the most commonly used academic citation method, used throughout the world. References and citations are methods of giving credit for concepts and ideas that you use in your...

Finding a good reference book can be a big challenge. There are so many options and it may be difficult to choose. Or your topic may be so small you don't know where to look. Fortunately, there...

Life can be complicated--especially since there is no book on living it entirely without mistakes. Common sense isn't something you gain through any book, it is gained through experience. For...

Cliff Notes are an institution in and of themselves. Launched in August of 1958, these book summary guides were probably published decades before many of your teachers were born. Spark Notes, a...

Ever taken a really boring class? Maybe you thought that a night class wouldn't really be that bad. Guess again! I am going to show you some techniques to fool your professor into believing you...

Anyone who has ever been to Chicago or lives here, knows exactly what I mean when I say "Chicago winters get into your blood and can drastically change a person's mood from minute to...

When faced with the challenge of choosing an essay topic for your literature class, it’s easy to grow overwhelmed and fall back on the most obvious and overdone ideas: “The American Dream in The...

Whether you are in middle school, high school or college, one of your teachers is going to assign you to write a book review. Book reviews basically summarize the text that you have been assigned...

With the rising costs of college tuition, you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on each textbook. Thanks to the Internet, students don't have to be limited to the college bookstore for...

Many times readers buy a book on-line or in a book store and end up not liking the book. This problem can be eliminated if you follow these simple book preview steps. This way you know what to...

The book report or essay is due in 24 hours, and you don't have time to get the book read. Or, the exam is tomorrow, and you need to answer questions. Of course, this isn't the best situation, and...

Scholarly book reviews differ from other reviews because they cater to a scholarly audience and cover a scholarly text. The elements that you should include in the review and the ways in which you...

The cost of textbooks is skyrocketing—sometimes over a hundred dollars a pop, and that’s just one book for one class. A college student can look to pay $1000 or more every year. This cost can be...

Open-book exams require different techniques than regular tests.