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College Culture, Student Success (A Longman Topics Reader)

by: Anderson, Debra J.

College Culture, Student Success (A Longman Topics Reader)

by: Anderson, Debra J.

ISBN 13:
9780321433053
ISBN 10:
032143305X
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/29/2007
Publisher: Pearson

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College Culture, Student Successhelps 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. Helps develop reading, writing and thinking skills, and offering strategies for success for college. Opportunities in and outside the classroom, intellectual curiosity, personal responsibility. General Interest: Student Success

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
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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