By: Greg on October 26, 2017
“If a picture paints a thousand words”, says Nicholas Boyd Crutchley, “then let a picture inspire a thousand words.” [1] This is such a cliché and overly used phrase, but true. Pictures and media can speak to us in ways that simple words would not let us hear. I have seen this while preaching on…
By: Dan Kreiss on October 25, 2017
From my current vantage point writing a dissertation, even with terrific mentorship, seems like sheer nonsense and fantasy. How on earth will I ever be able to adequately discern a meaningful question, conduct beneficial and focused research, and then formulate the acquired knowledge and information into something that contributes in some small way to a…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on October 24, 2017
Sarah Pink’s, Doing Visual Ethnography, was an interesting read. Although I did not like her writing style, I was interested to learn more about this word/term, ethnography, that I was introduced to for the very first time. As I did some research on this book and this new term, I learned a few things that…
By: Mike on October 21, 2017
Sarah Pink’s, Doing Visual Ethnography is a breakthrough in the use of visual media to inspire, create, and express new dimensions of knowledge. Ethnography is an approach for researchers to connect and relate to social cultures with new disciplines, agendas, and theoretical principles.[1] Pink’s work confirms the successful transition of visual anthropology into the 21st…
By: Jean Ollis on October 19, 2017
It’s been a surreal week as the Elite 8 cohort has struggled to read and respond to Derek Rowntree’s Learn How to Study: Developing the study skills and approaches to learning that will help you succeed in university. While I couldn’t locate but one insignificant review on this book, I jumped in to the reading…
By: Jay Forseth on October 19, 2017
I am a little sorry, but the first thing I noticed about Bayard’s book was the common usage of the letter S instead of the letter Z in words like “memorising” and “analysing”. I understand this is not a very deep first impression of an academic publication, and it should NOT have surprised me, especially…
By: Mark Petersen on October 19, 2017
In Learn How to Study: Developing the Study Skills and Approaches to Learning that Will Help You Succeed in University, Derek Rowntree offers basic and practical concepts to aid learners in assimilating and retaining the vast amounts of material we will encounter in our DMin program. I’ve decided the best way to approach the learning…
By: Trisha Welstad on October 19, 2017
Derek Rowntree’s Learn How to Study: Developing the Study Skills and Approaches to Learning that Will Help you Succeed in University, is a comprehensive and systematic approach to studying and is helpful for anyone who wants to grow as a learner. If you have never read Rowntree’s text I suggest you begin with Chapter Five:…
By: Dave Watermulder on October 19, 2017
Reading “Learn How to Study” by Derek Rowntree brings the movie Groundhog Day back to mind. It seems as if we were just having these same discussions about the topics that this book takes on and tries to cover. The genre might be called “study skills”, and it seems as if we are continuing to…
By: Jason Turbeville on October 19, 2017
“For many students essay-writing is the bane of their lives. They question the usefulness of essays, make heavy weather of writing them, and generally try to put off the task for as long as they can get away with it” [1] This is how I felt about Derek Rowntree’s book, Learn How to Study: A Programmed…
By: Chris Pritchett on October 19, 2017
In the first chapter of his book, “Learn How to Study,” Derek Rowntree begins in the first chapter with a compelling reason for this book: “We usually don’t improve at it unless we give some thought both to our own purposes and to what those other people expect of us.”[1] In a manner designed around…
By: Jennifer Williamson on October 19, 2017
Confession time: When I began reading Learn How to Study, it was with a dramatic roll of the eyes and a haughty “been there, done that” attitude. Honestly, I’d wager that people who go on to do post-graduate studies have pretty much figured out how to study. And worse, much of what I read seemed…
By: Greg on October 19, 2017
With 1.6 billion people in China, everyone needs a job. Every apartment complex has guards that sit in booths so they can wave and comment on your life as you walk by. They are friendly, but we often call them “Captain Obvious”. When leaving they say, “Oh your leaving.” When you have groceries they say,…
By: Kyle Chalko on October 18, 2017
The reading and writing of this blog post was a unique experience for me this week. I started with my traditional “sigh” and “OK, let’s get through this” as I started on the preface and chapter 1. A few pages into chapter 1 and I ran across this quote explaining the purpose of studying and…
By: Dan Kreiss on October 18, 2017
If the title was enough to grab you it will be necessary to dig a little to find inferences to sex, but they are there. Happy reading! I think Jason put this book on our list to give us all practice at skimming. I read or didn’t read, or forgot I read this text wondering…
By: Shawn Hart on October 18, 2017
(Do you remember the old joke that goes…”Doc, it hurts when I do this.” So then the doctor says, “Then don’t do that.” I keep getting that frustrated feeling with some of these books, wondering how books on how to read a book, how to talk about a book, and now, how to study could…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on October 17, 2017
I have to say, Derek Rowntree’s book, Learn How to Study: Developing the study skills and approaches to learning that will help you succeed in university, was painful for me to read. His writing style was overly elementary and his constant dialogue back and forth with the reader was annoying. Although he had some helpful…
By: Mike on October 17, 2017
Derek Rowntree’s, Learn How to Study is a tried-and-proven resource book that helps students learn skills and approaches to improve their study habits. First published in 1970, the book has undergone six revisions, the latest in 2016. Rowntree, once a professor at the United Kingdom’s Open University, has been teaching university level students how to…
By: Kyle Chalko on October 13, 2017
How to NOT talk about books you haven’t read… A little over a year ago a megachurch pstor was brought in to guest lecture as part of my Biblical Interpretation class that I was teaching (I did not have a say in the matter, although I was excited to share a small platform with him).…
By: Dan Kreiss on October 13, 2017
As I sit with a hot cup of tea, curled up on the couch with my computer (damn e-books) I am in the place and space I love most in the world. To sit unimpeded by distractions of noise, children, work etc. and read……there is nothing better or more rare in my life. And Pierre…
