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9780618382231

Investing in Your College Education Learning Strategies with Readings

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    9780618382231

  • ISBN10:

    0618382232

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-12-15
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

With readings incorporated throughout the text and a focus on learning across the curriculum,Investing in Your Educationprovides a unique solution for higher-level student success courses. Students make significant investments in going to college--investments in time, money, and intellect. This text focuses on providing students with the tools and strategies they need to capitalize on those investments. By aligning lessons in academic and life skills with readings from textbooks, journals, magazines, web sites, and other news sources, this text exposes students to a broad range of disciplines they will likely encounter in their college career, and offers the opportunity to apply study skills to related readings. Each chapter focuses on a key student success topic and emphasizes reading and study tips associated with different course disciplines (such as psychology, math, and physical sciences). In addition, each chapter includes three readings related to the topic addressed: a selection from a college-level textbook (related to the discipline covered within the chapter), a career-related reading, and a selection focusing on a current issue of interest. The text also includes a unique chapter on service learning. Because a variety of readings are provided within each chapter, this text allows instructors the ease and flexibility of assigning relevant readings right from the book, and eliminates the need for supplemental readers or outside articles. Broad Discipline Coverage--each chapter focuses on a different course discipline to introduce first-year students (particularly undeclared majors), to the wide array of opportunities across the curriculum, and to provide them with the study skills and learning strategies they need to be successful in different course disciplines. The ten disciplines covered include: Education, Business, Physical Sciences, Psychology, Mass Media, English, Visual and Performing Arts, History, Math and Technology. Think About Itquestions at the beginning of each chapter ask students to reflect on a topic related to the upcoming material. Time Out Tipspresent brief strategies for students to use. DIY: Do-It-Yourself Activitiesoffer more involved exercises that allow students to practice strategies from the chapter. Teamwork Activitiesfocus on group dynamics. Lifelinespresent brief tips on using outside resources for aid. The Hard Waycase studies offer situations encountered by other students where problems are identified and resolutions found. What Worked for Mecase studies show the effective use of a successful strategy in a real-life context. Get Involved!features people who successfully seek outside help to solve a problem. Compounding Your Interest:"Increasing Your Yield" concludes with a list of additional resources students can turn to for more research on the discipline and topics presented in the readings.

Table of Contents

Note: Each chapter includes Increasing Your Yield: Readings for Practical Application and Compounding Your Interest: Further Readings
Each Reading is followed by Before You Read Activities and After You Read activities
Making the Initial Investment Understanding What It Means to Be a College Student What to Expect from Your Professors and What They Expect of You Getting Critical: Switching to College-Level Thinking Finding Your Place on Campus: Diversity and New Experiences in College Finding and Using Campus Resources Finding a Mentor A Major Decision: Thinking Early and Often About Majors and Careers A Quick Overview of Which Majors Lead to Which Careers Reading and Study Tips: Education Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "Changing Definitions of Discipline"
Life After College: "Why I Entered Teaching, Why I Stay"
Current Issues: "Parents in a Haze?"
Motivations and Expectations for Your Investment Managing Your Time Avoiding the Costly Art of Procrastination Knowing Yourself as a Learner The Ins and (Mostly) the Outs of Cheating Your Choice of Major Figuring Out Your QPA Withdrawing from a Course: When and Why Incompletes--When to Take Them, What to Do Later Reading and Study Tips: Business Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "Gender Differences in Leadership Style"
Life After College: "How to Design the Perfect Product"
Current Issues: "School Lies"
Earning the Grade by Reading and Note Taking at the College Level Previewing Your Textbooks Using Guide Questions To Highlight or Not to Highlight Annotating Your Textbooks Outlining Summarizing What You Have Read Assessing Your Professors' Lecture Style--and What It Means for You Quick and Dirty Note-Taking Strategies Reviewing Your Notes Combining Textbook and Lecture Notes for the Best Study Guide Ever Reading and Study Tips: Physical Sciences Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "Observations of Black Holes"
Life After College: "Careers in Biotech: Inventing the Future"
Current Issues: "Species on Ice"
Earning the Grade on Tests Objective Tests Subjective Tests Other Types of Tests Memorization Cramming Test Anxiety Reading and Study Tips: Psychology Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "The Nature of Memory"
Life After College: "Don't See Yourself as an Associate?"
Current Issues: "The Great Person-Hole Cover Debate"
Critical Thinking Strategies for the Academic Investor Becoming a Critical Thinker Every Day Fact versus Opinion Arguments Making an Effective Argument Recognizing Bias in Arguments Fallacies Gathering Evidence Solving Problems in the Real World Reading and Watching the News Critically Reading and Study Tips: Speech Communications Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "Ethical Speaking"
Life After College: "For These ESPN Aides, Every Night a Highlight"
Current Issues: "The Other Side of the Glass"
Being Prepared to Write Papers and Give Presentations in College Understanding the Assignment (For a Paper or Presentation) Brainstorming Narrowing Your Topic for a Paper or Presentation of Realistic Scope What a Thesis Statement Really Should Be Organizing Your Supporting Paragraphs or Points Using the Computer to Do Research Tricks of the Trade: Refining and Delivering the Product Citing Sources MLA and APA Guidelines: What You Need to Get Started Reading and Study Tips: English Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "The Story of an Hour"
Life After College: "Hot Jobs for Writers"
Current Issues: "R ur txt msgs :( or OK?"
Keeping a Balance Gaining Confidence as a Student and as a Person Your Social Life and Your Academic Life: A Balancing Act Diversifying Your Experiences: Taking Advantage of the Diversity on Your Campus Service Learning/Volunteering Reading and Study Tips: Visual and Performing Arts Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "Art During the Early Caliphates: Architecture"
Life After College: " 'Degas & America': Career Canvas for Curators"
Current Issues: "Growing Up as a Volunteer"
Banking on Your Health Staying Healthy When the Going Gets Rough NEWS: Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sleep Understanding the Health Risks of College Students Reading and Study Tips: History Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "Black Republicanism: Gabriel's Rebellion"
Life After College: "Two Moons Dreams of Being a Museum Curator"
Current Issues: "A 'Superspreader' of SARS: How One Woman Touched Off Beijing Outbreak"
The Bottom Line: Managing Your Money in College Managing Your Finances Keeping a Budget Working versus Not Working Student Loan Debt Scholarships Credit Card Debt Pitfalls to Avoid: Life Lessons from Those Who Have Been There Reading and Study Tips: Math Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "Exponents and Scientific Notation"
Life After College: "Working Your Degree: Applied Mathematics"
Current Issues: "Protect Yourself from Identity Theft"
The Payoff: Your Career and Your Future Thinking Ahead: What You Should Be Doing Now Keeping Up with Current Events How Your Major Defines Your Career Choice, and How It Doesn't Professional Organizations Internships Thinking About Graduate School?
What People Really Do on the Job Every Day Thinking Out of the Box When Preparing for Your Career Reacute;sumeacute;s and Cover Letters
The Interview Process Social Skills of the Successful Person Reading and Study Tips: Technology Unique Features and Comprehension Strategies
A Textbook Case: "Arithmetic Operators and Operator Precedence"
Life After College: "Creating a Brave New World Wide Web"
Current Issues: "The Virus of Youthful Irresponsibility
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