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write the sentences down on a piece of
How to Study paper. This often makes the meaning
jump out at you.

• Do not hesitate to admit that something
Naturally, you want to become an expert gun-
puzzles you. Everyone gets stuck once in
smith as quickly as possible. Your lessons have
a while. Contact Student Services
been carefully planned to help you receive the
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most from your investment of time and mon-
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ey. However, even the best assignment is only
staff will assist you to make sure your
as good as your own use of it. We want you to
training goes smoothly.
do well, right from the beginning. To help you,
here are a few suggestions on how to get the • Do not worry if you do not understand
most out of the lessons we send you. Read them everything the first time you read it.
carefully. Over the years, these suggestions have Most good students read and reread their
been successfully followed by tens of thousands lessons several times. That’s the way to
of distance education students. The closer you make it stick! Now, let’s get down to the
stick to these suggestions, the more rapid your facts of how and where to work on your
progress through the course and the better your lessons—that is, let’s set up a learning
understanding of the material will be. schedule for you.
Reading the lessons and learning what is in
them is not as easy as reading a magazine ar-
ticle or blog. This is because you read the les-
sons to learn facts and to remember them. We
have done all we can do to make the lessons easy
for you to read. The lessons have been analyzed
by experts for readability and for ease of under-
standing. Even so, some of the facts may be a
little hard to understand. Following these rules
will make comprehension easier for you:

• When you start on a lesson, review
the pages one by one. Look at the
illustrations. Read the section headings
carefully. This will give you an idea of
what the lesson is about.

• Read the first section of the lesson. The
first section is the introduction, and it
tells you what you are going to find in
the lesson.

• Read through the lesson section by
section. If you come to anything that is
not clear, reread that part of the section
again. Sometimes it helps to read the
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