Learner – Friendly Text Books

Many students today hate text books and treat them as their enemies. Hence they resort to cheap bazaar notes. As a result, the standard of education deteriorates. Therefore, an urgent necessity has arisen to find out new strategies to write learner – friendly text books. This process involves two stages. The first one is the simplification of materials to suit the need and level of the students. The second one is the printing convention of the text books. The simplification of materials should be based on the latest research trend in the area of self-learning techniques. The printing aspect should include such items as the quality of the paper, font size, clarity of the print, space for note – making. self – testing questions, glossary, pictures and bold and italic letters wherever necessary to highlight the key ideas and definitions.