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Description: Understanding Your College Experience by John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot, Kimberly A. Koledoye Help students get the most out of their time in college. Understanding Your College Experience addresses the needs of the widest possible range of students through its content coverage and organization, activities, assessment, and design. Using a research-driven approach informed by decades of information on the first year experience, the author team provides students who need the most support with the practical help necessary to flourish in college, in life, and in their chosen career. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Table of Contents Part One: WELCOME TO YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE 1: The Essentials for College Success? The College Experience? Exploring Purpose and Setting Goals? Self-Exploration and Career Planning Academic Planning? Making the Transition by Connecting with Others? 2: Cultivating Motivation, Resilience, and Emotional Intelligence? The Importance of Motivation, Attitude, and Mindset? Resilience and Grit? Understanding Emotional Intelligence? 3: Managing Time, Energy, and Money? Managing Your Time? Managing Your Energy?? Managing Your Money? 4: Discovering How You Learn? How People Learn? The VARK Inventory? The Myers?Briggs Type Indicator? Multiple Intelligences? When Learning Preferences and Teaching Methods Conflict? Learning with a Learning Disability or Challenge? Part Two: SUCCEEDING IN COLLEGE 5: Getting the Most Out of Class? Become Engaged in Learning? Prepare for Class? Participate in Class? Take Effective Notes? 6: Reading to Learn from College Textbooks? A Plan for Active Reading?? Strategies for Reading Different Kinds of Textbooks? Improving Your Reading? Midterm Check In Introduction Mid-Term Check In Audit 7: Studying, Understanding, and Remembering? Studying in College: Making Choices and Concentrating ? How Memory Works? Improving Your Memory? Studying to Understand and Remember? 8: Taking Tests Successfully? Getting Ready . . .?? Taking the Test? Types of Tests?? Types of Questions?? Test Anxiety? Academic Honesty and Misconduct 9: Developing Information Literacy and Communication Skills Information Literacy?? Choosing, Narrowing, and Researching a Topic? Using the Library? Evaluating Sources? Using Your Research in Writing? The Writing Process?? Using Your Research in Presentations? Part Three: YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS IN COLLEGE AND BEYOND 10: Thinking in College? College-Level Thinking? Developing Strong Thinking Skills?? Applying Your Critical-Thinking Skills? Blooms Taxonomy and the First Year of College? 11: Maintaining Wellness and Relationships in a Diverse World? Understanding Wellness?? Managing Your Relationships?? Thriving in Diverse Environments? 12: Making the Right Career Choice? Careers and the New Economy ? Planning for Your Career? Getting Experience?? Job Search Strategies? Skills Employers Seek? Staying on the Path to Success?? New Feature An increased emphasis on career development and accessing career opportunities. This third edition empowers students to access the information and resources theyll need to make their college experience fulfilling and meaningful, make good choices, and set themselves on a successful career path. Chapter 1 now spotlights career coverage right up front, including a discussion of career pathways and a subsection on how self-understanding enables career exploration. Each chapter includes a new "Develop Your Career Story" activity , which empowers students to develop their professional selves and access career opportunities. These activities help to scaffold the often-difficult tasks students are asked to do when writing resumes or going on interviews, such as reporting on their strengths or weaknesses, summarizing their skills and interests, or describing a time they overcame adversity. Each activity provides students with a key building block to their professional portfolio, so that by the end of Chapter 12, students will have worked toward developing the confidence and skills to get the most out of their career center resources, land an internship, and pursue a successful career. A fully redesigned opener that begins each chapter. Openers touch on each of the three main areas that are important to students--college, life, and career--and spotlight concrete ways that upcoming material is relevant and useful. Each opener features: A colorful, full-page photo An "In this chapter..." section that highlights chapter coverage and includes reflection questions to help students connect with the chapter topics Interesting statistics on both academics and the workplace, as well as an inspirational quote about life, perseverance, and the human experience. New Midterm Check-In feature . This new feature, which is located immediately after Chapter 6 (roughly in the middle of the term), is designed to help students stay on track and recognize the necessary interventions they may need to take to finish the term successfully. On the first page of the feature, students receive tips to help them finish strong, and on the second page, they complete specific activities based on these tips to set themselves up for success. Key content updates keep this edition current, engaging, and relatable for students. Specific updates include the following: A reorganized section on time-management techniques in Chapter 3 , plus new coverage of locus of control, the importance of attending college now rather than later, and an expanded discussion of working versus borrowing. A revised and expanded "Become Engaged in Learning" section in Chapter 5 that includes a new assessment asking students to reflect on their level of engagement in learning. An expanded section on previewing in Chapter 6 , which includes a new Table 6.1 that helps students estimate how long their reading will take. A new discrete subsection in Chapter 8 on how to reduce the likelihood of problems with academic honesty. A retitled Chapter 9 (now "Developing Information Literacy and Communication Skills") that better emphasizes the two main topics being addressed in the chapter. New illustrative photos and earlier examples of how students use critical thinking in their everyday lives in Chapter 10 , which help to demystify an otherwise abstract concept. New wellness coverage in Chapter 11 on prescription drugs, vaping, and anxiety; and new and updated diversity coverage on nationality and citizenship, sex and gender, and microaggressions. Updated sections in Chapter 12 on the characteristics of todays economy, developing the right mindset, planning for your career, and marketability Details ISBN1319107435 Pages 336 Language English Year 2019 Edition 3rd ISBN-10 1319107435 ISBN-13 9781319107437 Format Paperback Imprint Macmillan Higher Education Place of Publication NY Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2019-10-22 US Release Date 2019-10-22 UK Release Date 2019-10-22 AU Release Date 2019-10-21 Author Kimberly A. Koledoye Publisher Macmillan Higher Education Edition Description 3rd ed. Publication Date 2019-10-22 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168422467;

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