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| Making The Initial Investment In Higher Education | |
| Understanding What It Means to Be a College Student | |
| What to Expect of Your Professors and What They Expect of You | |
| Personal Responsibilities | |
| 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 | |
| The Role of Education in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: Education | |
| A Textbook Case: The Development of American Secondary Schools | |
| Life After College: Lessons of a First Year Teacher | |
| Motivations And Expectations For Your Investment | |
| Managing Your Time | |
| A Sample To-Do List | |
| Long-Term To-Do Lists | |
| Avoiding the Costly Art of Procrastination | |
| Knowing Yourself as a Learner | |
| Knowing Your Learning Style--and Putting That Knowledge to Use | |
| Active versus Passive Learning | |
| The Ins and (Mostly) the Outs of Cheating | |
| Cheating Hall of Shame | |
| Your Choice of Major | |
| Being Undeclared | |
| Declaring and Changing Your Major: What You Need to Know | |
| Figuring Out Your QPA | |
| Withdrawing from a Course: When and Why | |
| Incompletes--When to Take Them, What to Do Later | |
| The Role of Business in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: Business | |
| A Textbook Case: Ethical Perceptions and International Business | |
| Life After College: Forensic Accounting: CPA Gumshoes | |
| 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 | |
| Five Easy Annotation Steps | |
| Two Bonus Steps (for even better results) | |
| Outlining | |
| Summarizing What You Have Read | |
| Assessing a Professor's 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 | |
| The Role of Physical Sciences in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: Physical Sciences | |
| A Textbook Case: Genetically Modified Orgnanisms | |
| Life After College: Careers in Science: Shawn Robinson, Marine Ecologist | |
| Earning The Grade On Tests | |
| Objective Tests | |
| Multiple-Choice Tests | |
| True/False Tests | |
| Fill-in-the-Blank Tests | |
| Matching Tests | |
| Subjective Tests | |
| Short-Answer Tests | |
| Essay Tests | |
| Other Types of Tests | |
| Take-Home Tests | |
| Open-Book Tests | |
| Speaking and Listening Tests | |
| Comprehensive Exams | |
| Memorization | |
| Cramming | |
| Test Anxiety | |
| The Role of Psychology in our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: Psychology | |
| A Textbook Case: Interference Theory: When Learning More Leads to Remembering Less | |
| Life After College: Psychology's Growth Careers | |
| 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 | |
| The Role of Speech Communication in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: Speech Communications | |
| A Textbook Case: Ethical Speaking | |
| Life After College: Young at Art: Eugene Young Making Reality a Reality | |
| Writing And Speaking Effectively In College | |
| Understanding the Assignment (for a Paper or Presentation) | |
| The Paper | |
| The Presentation | |
| Brainstorming | |
| Narrowing Your Topic for a Paper or Presentation of Realistic Scope | |
| The Inverted Triangle Method of Narrowing Your Topic | |
| What a Thesis Statement Really Should Be | |
| Organizing Your Supporting Paragraphs or Points | |
| Internet Research | |
| Tricks of the Trade: Refining and Delivering the Product | |
| Citing Sources | |
| MLA and APA Guidelines: What You Need to Get Started | |
| Written and Verbal Communication on the Phone and Online: The Do's and Don'ts | |
| The Role of English in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: English | |
| A Textbook Case: The Story of an Hour | |
| Life After College: Gary Paulsen's | |
| Love Affair with Writing | |
| Diversifying Your Portfolio Of Experiences | |
| Gaining Confidence as a Student and as a Person | |
| Enhancing Your Academic Life with a Social Life | |
| Experiencing Diversity on Your Campus | |
| Service Learning/Volunteering | |
| The Role of Visual and Performing Arts in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: Visual and Performing Arts | |
| A Textbook Case: Visual and Intellectual Unity | |
| Life After College: Where Do I Go With?Music? | |
| Banking on a Healthy Future | |
| Staying Healthy When the Going Gets Rough | |
| NEWS: Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sleep | |
| Nutrition | |
| Exercise | |
| Water | |
| Sleep | |
| Understanding the Health Risks of College Students | |
| Alcohol/Drug Abuse | |
| STDs | |
| Meningitis and Other Communicable Diseases | |
| Tobacco Use | |
| Violence/Date Rape | |
| Depression/Suicide | |
| Side Effects of Tattooing and Body Piercing | |
| Eating Disorders | |
| The Role of History in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: History | |
| A Textbook Case: Life and Death at the Front | |
| Life After College: Who Do I Think I Am? | |
| The Bottom Line: The Math And The Method Behind 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 | |
| The Role of Math in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: Math | |
| A Textbook Case: Exponents and Scientific Notation | |
| Life After College: Profiles of Mathematicians: Bonita Sanders | |
| 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 | |
| What People Really Do on the Job Every Day | |
| Thinking Out of the Box When Preparing for Your Career | |
| R?sum?s and Cover Letters | |
| Your R?sum? | |
| Your Cover Letter | |
| Using the Internet to Prepare for the Job Search | |
| The Interview Process | |
| Why an Interview? | |
| What Is Involved in an Interview and How | |
| Do You Survive It? | |
| How Do You Handle Special Interview Situations? | |
| How Do You Prepare for Interview Questions? | |
| The Role of Technology in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
| Increasing Your Yield | |
| Reading and Study Tips: Technology | |
| A Textbook Case: Arithmetic Operators and Operator Precedence | |
| Life After College: The Man | |
| Who Built Pixar's Incredible Innovation Machine | |
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