McMurry, a professor at Teachers College, asks why students are told to study but rarely taught how. He breaks study into its factors: having a purpose, supplementing the thought of the text, organising ideas, judging the soundness of statements, memorising and putting ideas to use, and suggests classroom practices, from comparing newspapers to independent reports, that build each habit.
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