Becoming a Master Student

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780395981498
• ISBN10: 0395981492
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780395935286
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-17
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• More Book Details

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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