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Your College Experience: Study Skills Edition
Strategies for SuccessTenth Edition| ©2013 John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot
Designed specifically for first-year study skills courses, Your College Experience, Study Skills Edition, teaches students the essentials of academic success through ample in-text exercises. The newest edition to the best-selling first-year franchise by John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoo...
Designed specifically for first-year study skills courses, Your College Experience, Study Skills Edition, teaches students the essentials of academic success through ample in-text exercises. The newest edition to the best-selling first-year franchise by John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot, this text is designed to help students both engage in the course material and to apply the skills learned to their other academic courses. This text will help students with managing time preparing for class, developing critical textbook reading strategies, improving note taking, and preparing for and taking tests. Look to this affordable text to guide students through the first year and beyond.
A full package of instructional support materials — including an Instructor’s Annotated Edition, an Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, videos, and a Test Bank — provides new and experienced instructors all the tools they will need to engage students in this course and increase student retention.
Study skills and practice for success in college
Designed specifically for first-year study skills courses, Your College Experience, Study Skills Edition, teaches students the essentials of academic success through ample in-text exercises. The newest edition to the best-selling first-year franchise by John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot, this text is designed to help students both engage in the course material and to apply the skills learned to their other academic courses. This text will help students with managing time preparing for class, developing critical textbook reading strategies, improving note taking, and preparing for and taking tests. Look to this affordable text to guide students through the first year and beyond.
A full package of instructional support materials — including an Instructor’s Annotated Edition, an Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, videos, and a Test Bank — provides new and experienced instructors all the tools they will need to engage students in this course and increase student retention.
Features
The latest research on the First-Year Experience. This book represents not only the practical experience of the authors' extensive careers teaching and directing this course, but also the culmination of decades of research, disseminated through two national higher education centers which they have founded and directed.
A streamlined Table of Contents perfect for skills-based courses focuses on what is essential for academic success.
Guided reading prompts and exercises that help students master concepts.
- Questions in the margins begin each section of the text to reinforce learning objectives and help students with guided reading. Questions in the margins are a great way to reinforce the Cornell Notetaking method.
- Practice exercises follow each section of the book and provide point-of-use reinforcement of concepts.
- Apply It! exercises at the end of each chapter ask students to use the strategies introduced in the chapter in another academic course.
- Collaborative Activities at the end of each chapter provide students with strategies to use with their classmates and study groups.
A focus on self-assessment of strengths and goal setting. The text helps students focus on purpose and motivation — and reinforce engagement in this course. A section on goal setting in Chapter 1 gets students thinking about this important topic from the get-go, and Assessing Your Strengths and Setting Goals boxes at the beginning of each chapter provide opportunity for self-assessment and goal setting.
Practical tools to use in college and in life. Your College Experience gives students more tools than any book of its kind for understanding themselves, making decisions, learning to think critically, and planning for the future: self-assessments for learning styles and multiple intelligences, planners for weekly to-do lists, and more.
Models that let students see principles in action. Because many students learn best by example, full-size models — more than in any competing book — show realistic examples of annotating a textbook, creating a mind map, multiple styles of taking notes, and other strategies for academic success.
Where to Go for Help boxes connect the text to student experiences. To help students take more control of their own success, every chapter includes a quick overview of further resources for support, including learning assistance centers, books, Web sites, and fellow students — with a prompt for students to add their own ideas to link the book to their own campuses.
Critical thinking questions and exercises in every chapter. Features, photos, and exercises include activities to help students master concepts and think critically about the material.
An increased focus on technology and learning. Tech Tips in every chapter ask students to apply many of the technology skills they may already have in an academic setting.
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Your College Experience: Study Skills Edition
Tenth Edition| ©2013
John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot
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Your College Experience: Study Skills Edition
Tenth Edition| 2013
John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot
Table of Contents
The College Experience
Setting Goals for Your College Experience and Beyond
Tech Tip: Plug In
Aligning Your Sense of Purpose and Your Career
Outcomes of College
Making the Transition
What Is Your Purpose in College?
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
2. Managing Your Time
Taking Control of Your Time
Getting Organized
Making Sure Your Schedule Works for You
Tech Tip: Get Organized
Respecting Others' Time
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence
Identifying Competencies
Tech Tip: Stay Connected
How Emotions Affect Success
How to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
4. Discovering How You Learn
The VARK Learning Styles Inventory
The Kolb Inventory of Learning Styles
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Multiple Intelligences
When Learning Styles and Teaching Styles Conflict
Tech Tip: Branch Out
Learning with a Disability
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
5. Thinking Critically: The Basis of a College Education
What Is Critical Thinking, and Why Is It Important?
Becoming a Critical Thinker
How Collaboration Fosters Critical Thinking
Thinking Critically about Arguments
Tech Tip: Research Wisely
Critical Thinking in College and Everyday Life
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
6. Being Engaged in Learning: Listening, Taking Notes, and Participating in Class
Using Your Senses in the Learning Process
Preparing for Class
Participating in Class
Taking Effective Notes
Tech Tip: Take Notes like a Rock Star
Reviewing Your Notes
Becoming Engaged in Learning
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
A Plan for Active Reading
Strategies for Reading Textbooks
Tech Tip: Embrace the E-Book
Monitoring Your Reading
Improving Your Reading
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
8: Learning to Study, Comprehend, and Remember
Studying to Understand and Remember
Tech Tip: Don't Be a Virtual Wallflower
How Memory Works
Improving Your Memory
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
9. Improving Your Performance on Exams and Tests
Getting Prepared for Tests and Exams
Taking Tests and Exams
Types of Tests
Tech Tip: Fear Not the Online Test
Overcoming Test Anxiety
Academic Honesty and Misconduct
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
10. Writing and Speaking Effectively
WRITING
Using Freewriting to Discover What You Want to Say
Tech Tip: Blog for Brilliance
The Writing Process
Box: Avoiding Plagiarism
Choosing the Best Way to Communicate with Your Audience
SPEAKING
Preparing a Speech
Using Your Voice and Body Language
The GUIDE Checklist
Speaking on the Spot
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
11. Developing Library, Research, and Information Literacy Skills
Information Literacy
Choosing, Narrowing, and Researching a Topic
Using the Library
Electronic Resources
Tech Tip: Check Your Engine
Evaluating Sources
Making Use of What You Find
Apply It!
Build Your Experience
Where to Go for Help
Your College Experience: Study Skills Edition
Tenth Edition| 2013
John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot
Authors
John N. Gardner
Betsy O. Barefoot
Your College Experience: Study Skills Edition
Tenth Edition| 2013
John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot
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