Becoming a Master Student: Concise

by Various

• ISBN13: 9780618595389
• ISBN10: 0618595384
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-12
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

For a full description of this text, seeBecoming a Master Student,11/e. The long-standing best seller in student success, Becoming a Master Student gives students a framework for examining their lives from a self-discovery perspective. Articles, strategies, and exercises help students understand their strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and practice academic and life skills. Designed for shorter courses, the concise version of this best-selling text offers the key elements of the complete text by combining topics, and streamlining articles and activities. The Eleventh Edition features a cleaner, more sophisticated design and a new organizational framework to help students monitor thinking and learning. Additional updates include integrated coverage of diversity, a new chapter on using technology to achieve success, and new Master Student Profiles. New!The Master Student Map (Metacognitive Application Process) provides an organizational framework based on the Learning Styles Inventory to help students understand why each chapter matters, how to use each chapter, and what to think about while reading. New!TheDiscover What You WantPower Process in the Introduction encourages students to establish and achieve their goals. New!Put It to Workfeatures at the end of each chapter shows students how skills translate to the working world, and how experience from the workplace is applicable to academics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Contents

Introduction: Making Transitions

This book is worthless--if you just read it

This book is worthless (continued)

Sidebar: This book is worth $1000

Textbook Reconnaissance

Get the most out of this book

Get the most out of this book (continued)

Commitment

The Discovery and Intention Journal Entry System

Discovery and Intention Statement Guidelines

Making the transition to higher education

Making the transition to higher education (continued)

Making a healthy transition

Connect to resources

Link to the world of work

Attitudes, values and visualizations

Ways to change a habit

Motivation: Discover it now

Power Process: Discover what you want

Power Process: Discover what you want (continued)

First Steps

First Step: Truth is the key to mastery

First Step (continued)

Sidebar: If you skipped the Introduction

Taking the First Step

Discovery Wheel

Discovery Wheel (continued)

Discovery Wheel (continued)

Discovery Wheel (continued)

The Master Student

The Master Student (continued)

The Master Student (continued)

Sidebar: Master Student Profiles

Claim your multiple intelligences (Reduce the chart to one page.)

Claim your multiple intelligences (continued)

Learning by seeing, hearing, and moving--

The VAK system

Learning by seeing, hearing, and moving (continued)

Learning Styles--

Discovering how you learn

Learning Styles (continued) LSI-1

Learning Style Inventory LSI-2

Interpreting Your Learning Style Graph LSI-3

Scoring Your Inventory LSI-4

Remove this page LSI-5

Learning Style Graph LSI-6

Cycle of Learning LSI-7

Balancing Your Preferences

Using your learning profile to succeed in school

Using your learning profile to succeed in school (continued)

Sidebar: The magic of metacognition

The value of higher education

Power Process: Ideas are tools

Power Process: Ideas are tools (continued)

Put it to Work Quiz Learning Styles Application

Master Student Profile: Ruth Handler

Planning You've got the time

The Time Monitor/Time Plan Process

Time Monitor/Time Plan (continued)

Sample of Time Monitor/Time Plan

Time Monitor Week of __/__ Time Monitor

Mon/Tues/Wed Time Monitor Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun

Setting and achieving goals

Setting and achieving goals (continued)

Get real with your goals

The ABC daily to-do list

The seven-day antiprocrastination plan

Getting the most out of now

Getting the most out of now (continued)

Sidebar: Remember cultural differences

Getting the most out of now (continued)

Create a lifeline

Financial Planning--

Meeting your money goals

Financial Planning (continued)

Education by the hour

Power Process: Be here now

Power Process: Be here now (continued)

Put it to Work Quiz Learning Styles Application

Master Student Profile: Ron Brown

Memory Take your memory out of the closet

The memory jungle (continued)

Choosing to remember

Choosing to remember (continued)

Choosing to remember (continued)

Use Q cards to reinforce memory

Notable Failures

Remembering your car keys--or anything else

Remembering names

Mnemonic devices

Mnemonic devices (continued)

Be a poet

Mnemonic devices (continued)

Move from problems to solutions

Power Process: Love your problems

Power Process: Love your problems (continued)

Put it to Work Quiz Learning Styles Application

Master Student Profile: Cesar Chavez

Reading Muscle Reading

How Muscle Reading works

Phase One: Before you read

Phase One: Before you read (continued)

Phase Two: While you read

Phase Two: While you read (continued)

Sidebar: Five smart ways to highlight a text

Phase Two: While you read (continued)

Phase Three: After you read

Phase Three: After you read (continued)

Sidebar: Muscle Reading: A leaner approach

When reading is tough

When reading is tough (continued)

Read with a dictionary in your lap

Sidebar: The universal law of reading

Reading fast Reading fast (continued)

Relax

Reading with children underfoot

Reading with children underfoot (continued)

Power Process: Notice your pictures and let them go

Power Process: Notice your pictures and let them go (continued)

Put it to Work Quiz Learning Styles Application

Master Student Profile: Helen Keller

Notes The note-taking process flows

The note-taking process: Observe

The note-taking process flows: Observe (continued)

The note-taking process flows: Record

The note-taking process flows: Record (continued)

The note-taking process flows: Record (continued)

The note-taking process flows: Record (continued)

The note-taking process flows: Record (continued)

The note-taking process flows: Review

Television note taking

Sidebar: What to do when you miss a class

Create your instructor

Create your instructor (continued)

When your instructor talks fast

Taking notes while reading

Get to the bones of your book with concept maps

Power Process: I create it all

Power Process: I create it all (continued)

Put it to Work Quiz Learning Styles Application

Master Student Profile: Craig Kielburger

Tests Disarm Tests

What to do before the test

What to do before the test (continued)

Ways to predict test questions

Cooperative Learning--

Study with people

What to do during the test

What to do during the test (continued)

What to do during the test (continued)

Words to watch for on essay tests

Integrity in test taking: The high cost of cheating

Have some fun!

The test isn't over until...

Let go of test anxiety

Let go of test anxiety (continued)

Let go of test anxiety (continued)

Twenty things I like to do

Taking math and science tests

Taking math and science tests (continued)

Taking math and science tests (continued)

Celebrate mistakes

Sidebar: How to cram (even though you shouldn't)

Power Process: Detach

Power Process: Detach

Put it to Work Quiz Learning Styles Application

Master Student Profile: Barbara Jordan

Thinking Critical thinking: A survival skill

Critical thinking: A survival skill (continued)

Finding "Aha!" and following through

Becoming a thorough thinker

Finding "Aha!" and following through (continued)

Sidebar: Tangram

Finding "Aha!" and following through (continued)

Sidebar: Key terms for thorough thinking

Finding "Aha!" and following through (continued)

Uncovering assumptions

Ways to fool yourself: mistakes in logic

Overcoming stereotypes with critical thinking

Gaining skill at decision making

Four ways to solve problems

But I don't know what I want to do!--

Choosing a major

But I don't know what I want to do! (continued)

Make a trial choice of major

Power Process: Find a bigger problem

Power Process: Find a bigger problem

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