CHAPTER FOUR Making Textbooks Pay
Textbooks are usually as useful as you make them, regardless of whether they are free electronic books or expensive hard copies. The following perspectives and pointers may help you to benefit optimally from them.
- Why use textbooks? Right at the start of the course, textbooks provide you with an intelligent presentation of the material that you will need to learn. The information comes pre-organized – better than your notes are likely to be during the semester – in a thorough and systematic way. Good textbooks hand you the course almost on a silver platter! The book lacks the vital in-class engagement, but overly enthusiastic students have been known to master large fractions ...
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