Roadways to Success

by Williamson, James C.; McCandrew, Debra A.; Muse, Charles T.

Edition:

2nd

ISBN13:

9780130280473

ISBN10:

013028047X

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2001

Publisher(s):

Prentice Hall

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Summary

"Roadways to Success, 4th Edition, "moves study skills to a new level - first it uncovers the skills essential to better classroom performance, and then reveals how to use them to positively impact one's own academic and career success. KET TOPICS: Students learn how to understand what the professor wants, identify time-management strengths, overcome obstacles to listening, use successful studying techniques, tackle test anxiety, and more. They also discover how health and wellness can improve the chance for academic success, as well as understand why research and planning helps make career decisions easier, and ultimately better. This revision includes new critical thinking exercises, an integrated case study, and a new chapter on diversity. It offers solid coverage of technology, strong applications and new ways for college students to reach their academic potential. College orientation and student success courses.

Preface

Fine-Tunning Your Vehicle Recognizing Your Potential and Building Self-Esteem

(28)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

(1)

Why Are You Here?

(2)

Where Are You Going?

(2)

Discovering and Achieving Your Potential

(3)

Personal Values

(1)

The Values Auction

(1)

Self-Esteem

(6)

What Is Self-Esteem?

(1)

Why Is Self-Esteem Important?

(1)

Developing Positive Self-Esteem

(5)

Roadways to Increasing Your Self-Esteem

(6)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

(1)

Observations

(1)

Getting There On Time

(1)

Web Connections

(2)

Planning to Reach Your Destination on Time Time Management

(32)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

(1)

College Success Strategies

(1)

A Daily Time Analysis

(2)

Successful Time Management

(1)

Three Keys to Effective Self-Management

(1)

A Planner for Student Success

(1)

Outline of a Planner

(1)

Change and Choices---Is Your Life Balanced?

(1)

Facts About Time

(1)

If I Were Young, I Would Form Good Habits

(2)

Weekly Time Analysis

(1)

Identifying Time-Management Strengths and Weaknesses

(1)

A Time-Management System: A Planner for Student Success

(6)

Monthly Planning

(1)

Daily Planning

(3)

Priorities and To-Do Lists

(2)

Your Study Time

(2)

Your Study Plan and Daily Prioritized To-Do List

(1)

It's All About Priorities!

(1)

Leading Time Wasters

(1)

Procrastination: The Enemy of the Student

(2)

Roadways to Effective Time Management

(2)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

(1)

Observations

(1)

Web Connections

(6)

Exercise 2.1 The Wheel---Daily Time Analysis

(1)

Exercise 2.2 Weekly Time Analysis

(2)

Exercise 2.3 Identifying Time-Management Strengths and Weaknesses

(3)

Mapping Your Journey Goal Setting and Motivation

(28)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

(1)

What Do These People Have in Common?

(1)

Eliminating Fear

(4)

What Is a Goal?

(1)

Why Are Goals Important?

(1)

Types of Goals

(1)

How to Write a Goal

(4)

Goal Setting: Example One

(1)

Goal Setting: Example Two

(2)

What Is an Objective?

(1)

Short-term Goal

(1)

Long-term Goal

(1)

Roadblocks to Success: Barriers to Achieving Your Goals

(1)

Box: Campus and Community Resources

(1)

Traveling the Road on Your Own...Motivation

(4)

What Is Motivation?

(1)

Why Is Motivation Important?

(2)

Box: Internal vs. External Goals and Motivations

(2)

Roadways to Reaching Your Goals

(5)

Exercise 3.1 Goal Setting

(3)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

(1)

Observations

(1)

Getting There on Time

(1)

Web Connections

(2)

Reaching Your Destination Career Planning

(24)

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

(1)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

(1)

Daydreaming

(2)

Do You Want to Do Something or Be Something?

(1)

Help Me! I'm Undeclared!

(4)

Seven Steps To Career Decision Making

(2)

What Is A Mentor?

(1)

What Is A Career Counselor?

(1)

Once You Know Where You Are Going, How Do You Get There?

100

(1)

Roadways to Career Decision Making

101

(2)

Develop a Personal Success Plan

103

(1)

Box: Success Plan Outline

103

(1)

My Personal Success Plan: Career Research

103

(1)

Road Plan Decided? Where Do I Go from Here?

104

(1)

Resume Writing

105

(1)

Preparing for the Interview

106

(4)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

106

(4)

Observations

110

(1)

Getting There on Time

110

(1)

Web Connections

111

(2)

Stopping to Ask for Directions Campus Resources

113

(30)

The Importance of Resources

114

(2)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

115

(1)

Tangible vs. Intangible Resources

116

(1)

The Owner's Manual: Your College Catalog

117

(3)

The Library

120

(1)

Computer Resources: A Trip Along the Information Superhighway

121

(1)

Alternative Routes: Distance Education and Other Nontraditional Formats

122

(1)

Making a Pit Stop: Learning Resource Centers

122

(1)

Traveling Companions: Your Friends

123

(1)

Counseling Services

123

(1)

Financial Aid Services

124

(3)

Box: Student Eligibility for Federal Financial Aid

125

(2)

Roadways to Financial Aid

127

(1)

Health Services

128

(1)

The Life of a Professor

128

(1)

Academic Freedom and What it Means to You

129

(2)

Understanding What the Professor Wants

131

(1)

What Makes a Good Student?

132

(1)

What Makes a Good Professor?

133

(1)

Classroom Etiquette

134

(1)

Reading the Professor's Schedule

135

(2)

The Next Step

137

(3)

Exercise 5.1 Resources Available to Me

138

(1)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

139

(1)

Observations

140

(1)

Getting There on Time

140

(1)

Web Connections

141

(2)

Financing Your Roadtrip Money Management

143

(24)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

145

(1)

Principles of Budgeting Your Money

146

(6)

Developing an Annual Financial Plan

147

(3)

Monthly Budget

150

(2)

Reducing Expenses: Needs vs. Wants

152

(1)

Adequate Insurance

153

(1)

Financial Aid

154

(2)

Debt-Free Living

156

(3)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

158

(1)

Roadways to Money Management

159

(2)

Observations

161

(1)

Getting There on Time

161

(1)

Web Connections

162

(5)

Sights, Sounds, and Sensations Information Processing and Learning Styles

167

(20)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

170

(1)

Information Processing Theory

170

(4)

Information Processing Inventory

172

(1)

Characteristics of Analytical and Global Thinkers

173

(1)

Brainteaser

174

(1)

Learning Preference Theory

174

(3)

How Do You Learn?

177

(3)

Learning Preference Inventory

177

(2)

Visual Learners

179

(1)

Auditory Learners

179

(1)

Kinesthetic Learners

180

(1)

Using Mnemonic Devices

180

(3)

Roadways to Learning and Processing Information

183

(2)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

184

(1)

Observations

185

(1)

Getting There on Time

185

(1)

Web Connections

185

(2)

Scanning the Radio The Powerful Art of Listening

187

(24)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

190

(1)

To Be a Captain, You First Have to Be a Sailor

190

(1)

The Difference Between Listening and Hearing

191

(3)

Practical Definitions of Listening

194

(3)

Obstacles to Listening

197

(4)

Obstacle One: Prejudging

197

(1)

Box: Tips for Overcoming Prejudging

198

(1)

Obstacle Two: Talking

198

(1)

Box: Tips for Overcoming the Urge to Talk too Much

199

(1)

Obstacle Three: Bringing Your Emotions to the Table

199

(1)

Box: Tips for Controlling Emotions that Interfere with Listening

200

(1)

How Do I Get Others to Listen to Me?

201

(1)

Listening for Key Words, Phrases, and Hints

201

(2)

Box: The Top Ten Reasons for Actively Listening

202

(1)

Test Your Listening Skills

203

(3)

Activity 8.1 Circles and Lines

203

(1)

Activity 8.2 Cabbie

203

(1)

Activity 8.3 The Accident

204

(1)

Activity 8.4 Visual Listening

204

(1)

Activity 8.5 Whispers

205

(1)

Activity 8.6 I Can Name that Tune

205

(1)

Roadways to Active Listening

206

(2)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

207

(1)

Observations

208

(1)

Getting There on Time

208

(1)

Web Connections

209

(2)

Charting Your Journey The Process of Note Taking

211

(22)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

214

(1)

Why Take Notes?

214

(1)

Do I Need to Write that Down?

215

(1)

Preparing to Take Notes

216

(1)

Roadways to Effective Note-Taking

216

(2)

Now We're Ready to Begin the Building Process

218

(1)

The L-Star System

218

(3)

Putting It All Together: Note-Taking Techniques

221

(7)

Outline Technique

222

(1)

Cornell System

222

(2)

The Mapping System

224

(4)

Roadways to Effective Note Taking

228

(2)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

229

(1)

Observations

230

(1)

Getting There on Time

230

(1)

Web Connections

231

(2)

Driver Training Learning How to Study

233

(26)

Homework? Studying? Who Needs It?

234

(2)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

235

(1)

Attending Class

236

(1)

Techniques for Successful Studying

236

(2)

Getting Organized

236

(1)

What Notebook System Do You Use?

236

(1)

When Do You Study?

237

(1)

Where Do You Study?

237

(1)

Study Supplies

238

(1)

A Study Plan

238

(1)

Roadways to Effective Studying

239

(16)

Learning Vocabulary

239

(3)

Reading and Using Textbooks

242

(2)

The SQ3R Method

244

(8)

Reviewing Class and Textbook Notes

252

(1)

Studying Math

253

(2)

Roadways to Studying Effectively

255

(2)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

256

(1)

Observations

257

(1)

Getting There on Time

257

(1)

Web Connections

257

(2)

Obtaining Your License Test-Taking Strategies

259

(18)

Self-Analysis: Where Are You Now?

262

(1)

Why Do I Have to Take a Test?

262

(1)

Controlling Test Anxiety

263

(2)

Roadways to Reducing Test Anxiety

265

(1)

Preparing for Tests

266

(1)

The Dreamer

266

(1)

The Procrastinator

266

(1)

The Planner

266

(1)

Roadways to Effective Test Taking

267

(1)

Test-Taking Strategies

268

(7)

General Test-Taking Techniques

268

(1)

Strategies for Answering Matching Questions

269

(1)

Strategies for Answering True/False Questions

269

(1)

Strategies for Answering Multiple-Choice Questions

270

(1)

Strategies for Answering Short-Answer Questions

271

(1)

Strategies for Answering Essay Questions

272

(2)

Self-Analysis: Now That You Are Here

274

(1)

Observations

275

(1)

Getting There on Time

275

(1)

Web Connections

275

(2)

Glossary

277

(9)

References

286

(1)

Index

287

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