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Becoming a Master Student
by Ellis, DaveEdition:
10th
ISBN13:
9780618206780
ISBN10:
0618206787
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Pub. Date:
4/15/2002
Publisher(s):
Wadsworth Publishing
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Table of Contents
| Note: Each chapter ends with a Quiz, a Learning Styles Application and a Bibliography | |
| First Step First Step: Truth is a key to mastery | |
| If you skipped the Introduction | |
| The Discovery and Intention | |
| Journal Entry System Seven Discovery and Intention | |
| Statement guidelines Creating and using portfolios | |
| Artifacts for your portfolio | |
| Power Process #1: Ideas are tools | |
| Learning styles: Discovering how you learn | |
| Learning styles: Using your learning profile to succeed in school | |
| Resources on learning styles | |
| The Master Student Maslow's qualities of a self-actualizing person | |
| Master Student: Veronica Espinoza | |
| Time You've got the time 25 ways to get the most out of now | |
| Keep going? | |
| Reap the benefits: Extracurricular activities Overcome computer addiction | |
| Time management for right-brained people | |
| Planning sets you free | |
| Strategies for scheduling | |
| Strategies for long-term planning | |
| Gearing up: Using a long-term planner | |
| The seven-day antiprocrastination plan | |
| The ABC daily to-do's | |
| Power Process #2: Be here now | |
| Master Student: Malcolm X | |
| Memory You never forget | |
| The memory jungle 20 memory techniques | |
| Set a trap for your memory | |
| Remembering your car keys...or anything else | |
| Give your "secret brain" a chance | |
| Notable failures; part one | |
| Remembering names | |
| Mnemonic devices | |
| Notable failures | |
| Master Student: Helen Keller | |
| Reading Muscle Reading | |
| How Muscle Reading works | |
| Before you read...Pry out questions | |
| While you read...Root up answers | |
| After you read...Recite, review, and review (again) | |
| The Universal | |
| Law of Reading | |
| Studying with children underfoot | |
| Ways to change a habit | |
| Reading fast | |
| When reading is tough | |
| Read with a dictionaryin your lap | |
| Motivation or "I'm just not in the mood" | |
| English as a second language | |
| Library: The buried treasure | |
| Treasure-hunting on the Internet | |
| Power Process #4: Notice your pictures and let them go | |
| Master Student: Barbara Jordan | |
| Notes | |
| The note-taking process flows | |
| Observe Record | |
| Review Improving your handwriting | |
| Power Process #5: I create it all | |
| When instructors talk fast | |
| Get to the bones of your book with concept maps | |
| Taking notes while reading | |
| Learning across borders: Getting the most from distance learning | |
| Taking notes on your journey: The art of journal writing | |
| Master Student: Clarissa Pinkola Estes | |
| Tests Disarm tests | |
| What to do before the test | |
| What to do during the test F is for feedback, not failure | |
| Words to watch for in essay questions | |
| The costs of cheating | |
| Have some fun! | |
| Ways to predict test questions | |
| Let go of test anxiety | |
| Overcoming math and science anxiety | |
| Special techniques for math and science tests | |
| How to cram (even though you shouldn't) 8 reasons to celebrate mistakes | |
| Power Process #6: Detach | |
| Cooperative learning: Study with people | |
| Master Student: Fred Smith | |
| Diversity Living with diversity | |
| Diversity is real--and valuable | |
| Communicating across cultures | |
| Adapting to the culture of higher education | |
| Learn the language of higher education | |
| The art of re-entry | |
| Stay tuned to these networks | |
| Plug into school resources | |
| Plug into community resources | |
| Dealing with sexism...and sexual harassment | |
| Students with disabilities: Ask for what you want | |
| Power Process #7: Choose your conversations and your community | |
| Master Student: Jaime Escalante | |
| Thinking Critical thinking: A survival skill | |
| Finding "aha!"--Creativity fuels critical thinking | |
| Tangram Techniques for creative thinking | |
| Asking questions | |
| The value of higher education | |
| Qualities of a critical thinker | |
| Core skills for critical thinkers | |
| Finding a critical thinking in yourself and others | |
| Becoming a critical thinker | |
| Create on your feet | |
| Uncovering assumptions | |
| Ways to fool yourself | |
| Thinking critically about information on the Internet | |
| Gaining skill at decision making | |
| Divide and conquer your goals | |
| Warning: Advertising can be dangerous to your health | |
| Power Process #8: Find a bigger problem 4 problem-solving steps | |
| Solving math and science problems | |
| Master Student: Margaret Mead | |
| Writing Writing well pays | |
| Phase 1: Getting ready to write--Creating something from nothing | |
| Phase 2: Writing the first draft--Getting down to it | |
| Phase 3: Revising your draft--Polishing your creation | |
| Misplaced modifier poses threat of suffocation | |
| Seven steps to nonsexist writing | |
| Giving credit where credit is due: Avoiding the high cost of plagiarism | |
| Getting connected: Entering cyberspace | |
| Overcoming technophobia | |
| Finding what you want on the Internet | |
| Some places to start surfing the Web | |
| Using computers to manage ideas and information | |
| Ways to waste time with a computer | |
| Learning the language of computers | |
| Staying up-to-date with technology | |
| Writing and delivering speeches | |
| Power Process #9: Risk being a fool | |
| Master Students: Jerry Yang and David Filo | |
| Relationships The communication loop | |
| Listening Sending | |
| Five ways to say "I" | |
| You deserve compliments | |
| Practice "netiquette" | |
| The fine art of conflict management | |
| Conflict management in a nutshell | |
| Developing self-esteem | |
| Emotional pain is not a sickness | |
| Suicide Claiming your multiple intelligences | |
| Relationships can work | |
| Relationships change | |
| Create your instructor | |
| Power Process #10: Employ your word | |
| Seven steps to effective complaints | |
| We are all leaders | |
| Leaders on leadership | |
| Master Student: Golda Meir | |
| Money and Health Money in, money out | |
| The source of money problems | |
| Increase money in Decrease money out | |
| Free fun | |
| Money for the future | |
| Education's worth it... Seventeen places to find money | |
| We live like royalty | |
| Take care of your machine | |
| Your machine: Fuel it | |
| Your machine: Move it | |
| Your machine: Rest it | |
| Your machine: Observe it | |
| Your machine: Protect it Stay up-to-date on STDs | |
| The experts recommend seven dietary guidelines | |
| Crazed glazed donut runs amok | |
| Power Process #11: Surrender Some facts | |
| Alcohol, tobacco and drugs: The truth | |
| Seeing the full scope of addiction | |
| Where to turn for more information on recovery | |
| Master Student: Christopher Reeve | |
| What Next? | |
| Now that you're done--begin "...use the following suggestions to continue..." | |
| Attitudes, affirmations, and visualizations | |
| Attitude replacements | |
| "But I don't know what I want to do" | |
| Majors for the taking | |
| Changing schools | |
| Contributing: The art of selfishness | |
| Service learning | |
| Career planning: Begin now | |
| Cruising for jobs on the Internet | |
| Job skills for the new millenium | |
| Link to the world of work | |
| Power Process #12: Be it | |
| One set of values | |
| Master Student: Raul Julia | |
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