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The Essential College Experience with Readings

by: Gardner, John N.; Jewler, A. Jerome

The Essential College Experience with Readings

by: Gardner, John N.; Jewler, A. Jerome

ISBN 13:
9780534593971
ISBN 10:
0534593976
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/10/2005
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

1. College Makes the Difference. 2. Time Management. 3. Learning Styles and Personality. 4. Active Learning. 5. Critical Thinking. 6. Listening, Note-Taking, and Participating. 7. Reading to Remember. 8. Taking Tests. 9. Writing and Speaking for Success. 10. Research and College Libraries. 11. Careers and Service Learning. 12. Relationships. 13. Appreciating our Differences. 14. Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Sex. 15. Staying Healthy.

Preface

xvii

College Makes the Difference

(18)

Strategies for Success

(2)

Get Ready: The Basics

(1)

Get Set: Study, Study, Study

(1)

Go: The Extra Mile

(1)

First-Year Commitment: Hangin' In

(1)

High School vs. College

(1)

Returning Students

(1)

Those Who Start, Those Who Finish

(1)

College Education and Quality of Life

(1)

Where to Go for Help

(1)

Setting Goals for Success

(1)

Your Personal Journal

(1)

Readings

(7)

How to Avoid First-Year Pitfalls. You can sidestep some of the most common problems new college students face.

(4)

Mark Rowh

Finding Your Niche. Learn how to feel comfortable in your new home away from home---college.

(3)

Joan Axelrod-Contrada

Discussion

(1)

Time Management

(20)

Setting Goals and Objectives

(1)

Beating Procrastination

(2)

Setting Priorities

(6)

Use a Daily Planner

(3)

Maintain a ``To Do'' List

(1)

Guidelines for Scheduling Week by Week

(1)

Organizing Your Day

(2)

Making Your Time Management Plan Work

(2)

Don't Overextend Yourself

(1)

Reduce Distractions

(1)

Time and Critical Thinking

(1)

Your Personal Journal

(1)

Readings

(6)

How to Manage Your Time.

(3)

Andrea Matetic

When Mom Goes Back to School. Middle-aged students are going to college in record numbers, and inspiring younger classmates, including their own kids, to hit the books harder than ever.

(3)

Jennifer Wagner

Discussion

(1)

Learning Styles and Personality

(14)

Learning about Your Personality and Psychological Type

(1)

Psychological Preferences

(3)

Extraversion (E) vs. Introversion (I): The Outer or Inner World

(1)

Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N): Facts or Ideas

(1)

Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F): Logic or Values

(1)

Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P): Organization or Adaptability

(1)

Using Your Personality for Better Learning

(1)

Your Instructors' Teaching Styles

(1)

Helpful Hints for Each Type

(3)

Tips for Extraverts

(1)

Tips for Introverts

(1)

Tips for Sensing Types

(1)

Tips for Intuitive Types

(1)

Tips for Thinking Types

(1)

Tips for Feeling Types

(1)

Tips for Judging Types

(1)

Tips for Perceiving Types

(1)

Your Personal Journal

(1)

Readings

(4)

Accommodating Students' Learning Styles. Professors want their lessons to stimulate all of their students' senses. Here are some of the latest innovations that turn an ordinary classroom into a multimedia event.

(2)

Amy Milshtein

Texas Tech U.: Students Should Adapt Study Habits to Learning Styles.

(2)

Lauren Clonts

Discussion

(1)

Active Learning

(18)

The Many Benefits of Active Learning

(1)

Why Active Learners Can Learn More Than Passive Learners

(1)

Becoming an Active Learner

(1)

Teachers Who Embrace Active Learning Love to Teach

(4)

Making the Most of the Student-Instructor Relationship

(1)

Teachers, Students, and Academic Freedom

(1)

If Things Go Wrong between You and a Teacher

(1)

Collaborative Learning Teams

(2)

Making Learning Teams Productive

(1)

The Many Uses of Learning Teams

(1)

Your Personal Journal

(1)

Readings

(6)

Ten Strategies for Getting Students to Take Responsibility for Their Learning.

(4)

Sara Jane Coffman

Class Participation: Report from Beijing.

(2)

Peter Phillips Simpson

Discussion

(2)

Critical Thinking

(18)

From Certainty to Healthy Uncertainty

(1)

A Skill to Carry You through Life

(1)

Walking through the Process

(1)

Four Aspects of Critical Thinking

(1)

Step 1. Abstract Thinking: Using Details to Discover Some Bigger Idea

(1)

Step 2. Creative Thinking: Seeking Connections, Finding New Possibilities, Rejecting Nothing

(1)

Step 3. Systematic Thinking: Organizing the Possibilities, Tossing Out the Rubbish

(1)

Step 4. Precise Communication: Being Prepared to Present Your Ideas Convincingly to Others

(1)

How College Encourages Critical Thinking

(2)

Your Personal Journal

(1)

Readings

(10)

Rethinking Thinking. College classes that make one think.

(5)

Mark Clayton

Judging Authority. We are often required to accept the word of another person, but how can we best judge whether or not that person is a legitimate authority?

(5)

Jere H. Lipps

Discussion

(2)

Listening, Note Taking, and Participating

(22)

Short-Term Memory: Listening and Forgetting

(1)

Using Your Senses in the Learning Process

(2)

Before Class: Prepare to Remember

(1)

During Class: Listen Critically

(1)

During Class: Use The Cornell Format to Take Effective Notes

(4)

Taking Notes in Nonlecture Courses

(2)

Class Notes and Homework

(1)

Computer Notes in Class?

(1)

After Class: Respond, Recite, Review

(1)

Participating in Class: Speak Up!

(1)

Your Personal Journal

100

(1)

Readings

101

(9)

Why Do I Have to Take This Class? A lesson in making the required course relevant.

101

(1)

Chad M. Hanson

Making the Grade. Ace your college classes with this advice on choosing courses, selecting a major, writing papers, and dealing with professors.

102

(8)

Tracey Randinelli

Discussion

110

(1)

Reading to Remember

111

(16)

Previewing

111

(2)

Mapping

111

(1)

Alternatives to Mapping

112

(1)

Reading Your Textbook

113

(1)

Marking Your Textbook

113

(4)

Monitor Your Comprehension

116

(1)

Recycle Your Reading

116

(1)

Reviewing

117

(1)

Adjusting Your Reading Style

117

(1)

Developing Your Vocabulary

117

(1)

Your Personal Journal

118

(1)

Readings

118

(8)

New Words, 7 Drops at a Time. Vocabulary boosts can energize writing---or overload it.

118

(4)

Arthur Plotnik

How to Study.

122

(4)

Leyla Sanai

Discussion

126

(1)

Taking Tests

127

(20)

Exams: The Long View

127

(1)

Planning Your Approach

128

(1)

Physical Preparation

128

(1)

Emotional Preparation

128

(1)

Design an Exam Plan

129

(1)

Join a Study Group

129

(1)

Tutoring and Other Support

129

(1)

Now It's Time to Study

129

(3)

Review Sheets, Mind Maps, and Other Tools

130

(1)

Summaries

130

(2)

Taking the Test

132

(4)

Essay Questions

133

(1)

Multiple-Choice Questions

134

(1)

True/False Questions

135

(1)

Matching Questions

135

(1)

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

135

(1)

Machine-Scored Tests

135

(1)

Take-Home Tests

136

(1)

Academic Honesty

136

(2)

Types of Misconduct

136

(1)

Reducing the Likelihood of Problems

137

(1)

Your Personal Journal

138

(1)

Readings

139

(7)

How to Ace College. A Harvard professor reveals secrets from his 10-year study of successful students.

139

(2)

Alisha Davis

How to Be a Great Test Taker. Three simple words can help you replace test anxiety with test confidence: prepare, prepare, prepare.

141

(5)

Mark Rowh

Discussion

146

(1)

Writing and Speaking for Success

147

(18)

The Power of Writing

147

(1)

Explore First, Explain Later

148

(1)

Three Steps to Better Writing

149

(1)

Prewriting

149

(1)

Writing for Organization

149

(1)

Rewriting to Polish

149

(1)

Finding a Topic

150

(1)

Allocating Your Time for Writing

150

(1)

Tips for Becoming a Better Writer and Thinker

151

(1)

Speaking in Public Need Not Be Scary

151

(1)

Steps to Successful Speaking

152

(4)

Clarify Your Objective

152

(1)

Analyze Your Audience

152

(1)

Collect and Organize Your Information

152

(1)

Get Your Audience's Attention

152

(1)

Don't Forget Yourself

153

(1)

Ideas, Ideas, Ideas!

153

(1)

Develop an Organizational Structure

154

(1)

Exit Gracefully and Memorably

154

(1)

Choose Your Visual Aids

154

(1)

Prepare Your Notes

155

(1)

Practice Your Delivery

155

(1)

Using Your Voice and Body Language

156

(1)

Your Personal Journal

156

(1)

Readings

157

(6)

Ten Tips for Better Business Writing.

157

(3)

Edwin Powell

Delivering the Goods. Memorable presentation starts with organizing your thoughts in writing.

160

(3)

Phil Venditti

Discussion

163

(2)

Research and College Libraries

165

(22)

The Information Age, the Information Explosion, and the Information Society

165

(1)

The Information Society

166

(1)

Making Sense of It All

167

(1)

Information Literacy

167

(2)

Researching and Presenting an Assigned Topic

169

(3)

Let's Go Electronic

172

(2)

Looking Elsewhere

174

(1)

Ask a Librarian

174

(1)

About Plagiarism

174

(1)

Your Personal Journal

175

(1)

Readings

176

(9)

Drawn to Knowledge.

176

(3)

Kevin Havens

Deserted No More. After years of declining usage statistics, the campus library rebounds.

179

(6)

Andrew Richard Albanese

Discussion

185

(2)

Careers and Service Learning

187

(16)

Careers and the New Economy

187

(1)

Surviving in a Changing Economy

188

(1)

Connecting Careers and Majors

189

(1)

Exploring Your Interests

190

(2)

Starting Your Career-Planning Program

192

(1)

Steps in the Job Hunt

192

(1)

Some Career Do's and Don'ts

193

(1)

Do's

193

(1)

Don'ts

193

(1)

Getting Experience

193

(1)

Service Learning

194

(1)

Your Personal Journal

195

(1)

Readings

196

(5)

The University of Social Justice. Beyond community service, colleges educate for social change.

196

(3)

Melissa Snarr

Combating College-Grad Stress Syndrome. Despite the dismal job outlook. . . these tips could make the search less daunting.

199

(2)

Susannah Chen

Discussion

201

(2)

Relationships

203

(14)

Dating and Mating

203

(4)

Loving an Idealized Image

203

(1)

Off Limits!

204

(1)

Gay and Lesbian Relationships

204

(1)

Developing a Relationship

205

(1)

Long-Distance Relationships

205

(1)

Becoming Intimate

205

(1)

Getting Serious

206

(1)

Breaking Up

207

(1)

You and Your Parents

207

(1)

Married Life in College

208

(1)

Electronic Relationships

208

(1)

Roommates

209

(1)

On-Campus Involvement

209

(1)

Off-Campus Involvement

210

(1)

Co-op Programs

210

(1)

Your Personal Journal

210

(1)

Readings

211

(4)

College Women Say College Men Don't Ask for Dates.

211

(2)

A College Student's First Lesson Often Is How to Live with a Stranger.

213

(2)

Patrice Relerford

Discussion

215

(2)

Appreciating Our Differences

217

(16)

Race, Ethnic Groups, and Culture

218

(1)

The Changing U.S. Population

218

(1)

A Century of Change

219

(2)

The Many Dimensions of Diversity

221

(1)

The Concept of Race on Campus

222

(1)

What Does the Future Hold for You, for Me, for Us?

222

(2)

Gays and Lesbians

223

(1)

Returning Students

223

(1)

Students with Disabilities

223

(1)

Discrimination and Prejudice on College Campuses

224

(1)

Your Personal Journal

225

(1)

Readings

225

(5)

Don't Forget the Women. African-American female college students.

225

(2)

M. Rick Turner

Students Reveal the Reality of College Diversity.

227

(3)

James M. O'Neill

Discussion

230

(3)

Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Sex

233

(20)

Sexual Decision Making

233

(5)

Birth Control

234

(1)

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

234

(2)

Options for Safer Sex

236

(2)

Unhealthy Relationships

238

(2)

Intimate Partner Violence

238

(1)

What to Do If Your Relationship Is Abusive

238

(1)

Sexual Assault

239

(1)

Making Decisions about Alcohol and Other Drugs

240

(1)

Why College Students Drink

240

(1)

Social Learning

240

(1)

Drinking to Feel Good or Not to Feel Bad

241

(1)

Alcohol and Behavior

241

(2)

Consequences for All

242

(1)

Alcohol Addiction

242

(1)

Tobacco---The Other Legal Drug

243

(1)

Prescription Drug Abuse and Addiction

243

(1)

Ecstasy

244

(1)

Other Illegal Drugs

245

(1)

Your Personal Journal

246

(1)

Readings

246

(4)

Diversity of Students Lowers College Binge Drinking Rates

246

(2)

Survey Finds High Number of College Students Using Tobacco Products

248

(2)

Discussion

250

(3)

Staying Healthy

253

(20)

Stress

253

(2)

Managing Stress and Depression

254

(1)

Modifying Your Lifestyle

254

(1)

Relaxation Techniques

254

(1)

Exercise and Rest

255

(1)

Nutrition and Body Weight

255

(3)

Obesity

257

(1)

Eating Disorders

257

(1)

Suicide

258

(1)

Stress and Campus Crime

259

(1)

Personal Property Safety

259

(1)

Automobile Safety

259

(1)

Personal Safety

260

(1)

Your Personal Journal

260

(1)

Readings

261

(10)

Surviving the Everyday Stuff. The coauthor of The Ultimate College Survival Guide tells you how to cope with weight gain, illness, and dirty laundry when you're living on your own.

261

(5)

Janet Farrar Worthington

The Dark Side of College Life: Academic Pressure, Depression, Suicide.

266

(5)

Daniela Lamas

Discussion

271

(2)

Conclusion

273

(1)

Glossary/Index

274

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