[Eoscstudents] Helpful Tips and Study Skills

[Kinya Meineke]

Helpful Study Tips:

 

Forming an acronym is a good strategy to use to remember information in any
order. An acronym is a word that is formed from the first letter of each
fact to be remembered. It can be a real word or a nonsense word you are able
to pronounce.

Using Acronyms to Remember Information, Pen and Book

 

Here is how to form an acronym.

.Write the facts you need to remember.

.Underline the first letter of each fact. If there is more than one word in
a fact, underline the first letter of only the first word in the fact.

.Arrange the underlined letters to form an acronym that is a real word or a
nonsense word you can pronounce.

Using Acronyms to Remember Information, House

 

"HOMES" is an example of an acronym that is a real word you can use to
remember the names of the five Great Lakes: Michigan, Erie, Superior,
Ontario, Huron: In HOMES, H is the first letter of Huron and helps you
remember that name; O is the first letter of Ontario, and so on.

 

"Telk" is an acronym that can be used to remember the following animals:
tiger, lion, elephant, kangaroo. "Telk" is not a real word, but you can
easily pronounce it. You could also have used "kelt" as an acronym. Notice
that in this example, you cannot form a real word using the first letter of
each fact to be remembered.

 

Sometimes two or more of the facts you must remember each begin with the
same first letter. For example, the acronym "capp" can be used to remember
the following fruits: pear, apple, peach, cherry. You can use the first
letter "p" in the acronym to remember either "pear" or "peach" and the
second letter "p" to remember the other.

 

Use the acronym strategy as a way to remember information.

 



 

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Kinya Meineke, M.A.g.

Counselor/Advisor

Student Support Services

Eastern Oklahoma State College

"Your Tomorrow Begins Today"

918.465.1822

 

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