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.