This handbook is designed for adults who left school at minimum leaving age with few or no qualifications and are returning to education many years later. Its focus is on a particular course in history, politics, and economics offered to students in Liverpool, England. The handbook is intended for use as the basis for group work, not for individual study at home. The book contains ideas, not set exercises. Teachers must supply suitable materials to work from and thus directly relate the learning to a particular course. Introductory materials provide information for students and teachers on how to use the book. Implementation of the 15-week Study Skills Workshop series is described. Ten chapters provide information and practical activities in the following areas: solving study problems; memory and studying; discussion, chairing, and reporting; reading to learn; notetaking from books; notetaking in lectures and meetings; writing an essay; preparing and presenting a talk; graphs and statistics; and straight and crooked thinking. A listing of recommended reading concludes each chapter. (YLB)