College Culture, Student Success (A Longman Topics Reader)
ISBN: 9780321433053 | 032143305X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 10/29/2007
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College Culture, Student Success helps students develop reading, writing, and thinking skills as well as become familiar with the common customs, underlying assumptions, and strategies for success associated with being a college student. This brief, flexible, and contemporary reader explores topics familiar to many of today s college students, including being a first-generation college student, balancing college and work, recognizing different learning styles, taking responsibility for one s education, and experiencing campus life. Students wil... MORE
| Preface for Instructors | p. xv |
| Preface for Students | p. xxi |
| I Wasn't Brought Up That Way: Where Home Culture Meets College Culture | p. 1 |
| Overview | p. 1 |
| And Then I Went to School | p. 2 |
| Mother Tongue | p. 8 |
| Bricklayer's Boy | p. 15 |
| The Meaning of Work | p. 22 |
| Abandoned but Not Alone | p. 25 |
| Let the Colors Run | p. 28 | ... MORE
| Making Connections | p. 35 |
| Exploring the Web | p. 36 |
| A Day in the Life: Opportunities and Challenges In and Out of the Classroom | p. 39 |
| Overview | p. 39 |
| Focusing on Friends | p. 40 |
| Could Your Facebook Profile Throw a Wrench in Your Future? | p. 44 |
| Drinking Deaths Draw Attention to Old Campus Problem | p. 49 |
| We're Lying: Safe Sex and White Lies in the Time of AIDS | p. 52 |
| Universities Seeing a Gender Gap in Enrollments | p. 58 |
| Earning and Learning: Are Students Working Too Much? | p. 61 |
| Making Connections | p. 65 |
| Exploring the Web | p. 66 |
| Who's in Charge Here?: Exploring Self-Awareness and Personal Responsibility | p. 68 |
| Overview | p. 68 |
| ADHD: The Cloud Lifted | p. 69 |
| Log On to Learn | p. 72 |
| Sticky Fingers on the Information Superhighway | p. 78 |
| Good and Bad Procrastination | p. 86 |
| From Single Mother to Successful Student | p. 91 |
| Saved | p. 96 |
| Making Connections | p. 99 |
| Exploring the Web | p. 100 |
| Learning and Unlearning: Reinventing Yourself as a Learner | p. 102 |
| Overview | p. 102 |
| Multiple Intelligences | p. 103 |
| How to Say Nothing in 500 Words | p. 117 |
| I Just Wanna Be Average | p. 130 |
| Upsilamba! | p. 144 |
| Symptoms of Math Anxiety | p. 149 |
| Take This Quiz! (Twenty Reasons You Could Be Working Harder and Longer Than You Have to, Yet Learning Less and Receiving Lower Grades) | p. 153 |
| Making Connections | p. 162 |
| Exploring the Web | p. 163 |
| Becoming an Educated Person: Intellectual Curiosity, Integrity, and Critical Thinking in College and Beyond | p. 165 |
| Overview | p. 165 |
| General Education and a College Degree | p. 166 |
| The Nontraditional Student in You | p. 169 |
| Vamos a Leer! | p. 174 |
| A False Wikipedia "Biography" | p. 176 |
| Ambition | p. 180 |
| What Is the Quarterlife Crisis? | p. 184 |
| Making Connections | p. 190 |
| Exploring the Web | p. 191 |
| Credits | p. 193 |
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