Scholarly Learning
Books and Journals
Research-informed books and journals for college, university, and graduate students. One practical guide teaches the Learning Ownership System. Two journal series help students put those practices to work across a full academic term.
Start with the learning challenge in front of you, or choose the journal designed for the kind of term you are entering.
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Which Scholarly Learning title fits?
| What you need | Start here |
|---|---|
| Help with assignments, exams, studying, feedback, AI, or getting back on track | Think First |
| A full-term system for undergraduate courses, deadlines, assignments, exams, and competing demands | The Scholar: Winter 2027 |
| A full-term system for graduate research, writing, teaching, coursework, and other meaningful work | The Graduate: Winter 2027 |
Looking for a summer structure for graduate research? The Graduate: Summer 2026 remains available as the previous summer edition.
Think First
The Learning Ownership System for Studying, Assignments, and Learning with AI
A practical write-in guide for college and university students who want to approach academic work more strategically. Think First gives students seven moves they can use across assignments, exams, AI use, feedback, weekly planning, and recovery. It is designed to be opened at the point of need rather than read straight through.
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For courses, programs, learning centres, and student-support use, review copies, pilot options, institutional ordering, and free teaching resources are available for educators. For Educators →
Coming November 1
Winter 2027 Journals
A new academic term brings a different challenge from a single assignment or exam: students have to keep important work moving for months while priorities compete for attention. The Scholar and The Graduate turn Learning Ownership into a daily and weekly practice across the term.
The Scholar: Winter 2027
A guided winter-term journal for undergraduate students
Built for a course-heavy undergraduate term with multiple classes, assignments, exams, and competing deadlines. The Scholar helps students identify what matters, plan realistic weeks, stay in contact with their learning, adjust when plans stop working, and carry what they learn forward.
The Graduate: Winter 2027
A guided winter-term journal for graduate students
Built for graduate students balancing research, writing, coursework, teaching, meetings, and personal responsibilities. The Graduate helps protect meaningful work inside a crowded term, build a realistic weekly system, notice when progress is slipping, and reset before a difficult week becomes a lost month.
Planning a winter course, cohort, or learning-centre program? Ask about review copies, pilot options, or institutional ordering for Winter 2027.
Choosing
Guide or Journal?
Think First teaches the Learning Ownership System and can be used in any term, in any year. The Scholar and The Graduate are term-specific journals. They help students return to planning, monitoring, adjustment, and reflection repeatedly as the term unfolds.
Think First and the journal that fits a student’s term are complementary, but students do not need both. Each can be used on its own.
Previous Editions
Still Available
The Graduate: Summer 2026
A 123-Day Journal for Focus, Momentum, and Meaningful Progress
A 123-day guided journal for graduate students who need structure during the less structured summer months. It supports steady progress on dissertations, theses, comprehensive exams, articles, and major research projects through morning and evening check-ins, weekly reflection, and reset tools.
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Try Learning Ownership Free
Think First and the Winter 2027 journals are connected by the Learning Ownership System. You do not have to buy a book to try it. LearningOwnership.com provides nine free student resources and four free teaching resources, with no email required.
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The research behind the system is also available there.
For Institutions
For Courses, Programs, and Bookstores
Scholarly Learning titles can be purchased individually or considered for courses, student-success programs, learning centres, graduate programs, and cohort use. Institutional ordering, review copies, pilot discussions, invoicing, and bookstore enquiries are available directly from the publisher.
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