Your College Experience: Strategies for Success - Softcover

John Gardner; A. Jewler; Betsy Barefoot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413030750 ISBN 13: 9781413030754

Publisher: Wadsworth, 1980

Synopsis

The strategies for your academic and personal success in college are all at your fingertips in "Your College Experience: Strategies for Success, Concise Seventh Edition". You'll learn to take charge of your learning; sharpen your skills in note taking, reading, memory, writing, and test-taking; enhance your social relationships; get to know yourself better by exploring your values; learn vital information about staying healthy; connect to information on career planning; and more! Achieve It features in every chapter give you practice in setting goals. Try It! exercises give you hands-on practice. And, each new textbook comes with ThomsonNOW, an online learning tool that provides you with a personalized study plan that will save you time while you improve your understanding of the concepts of the course.

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Review:

"I like the voice in which the text is written. It is friendly and helpful in a non-threatening manor. The authors talk right to the student and by sharing their own memories personalize the text in a way that is unique." "The 20 tips are an excellent introduction to the book and should appeal to student readers. I most appreciate that the content recognizes the needs of diverse students a traditional and nontraditional students, under prepared students, and students of color." "Excellent information overall. There is no question of the accuracy and value of the information and material presented. Teacher annotations are also extremely beneficial. Major headings are excellent, and the arrangement of information into easily-digested achunksa is a tremendous benefit of this section of the book."

About the Author:

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to as an author. The recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence, John has over 40 years of experience directing and teaching in the most widely emulated first-year seminar in the country, the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia. John is universally recognized as one of the country's leading educators for his role in initiating and orchestrating an international reform movement to improve the beginning college experience, a concept he coined as "the first-year experience." He is the founding executive director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at USC and of the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, North Carolina.

Jerome Jewler is a best-selling author, educator, and friend to students. A distinguished professor emeritus of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies as well as codirector of the University 101 first-year seminar at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Jewler has guided advertising students through the creative and writing processes and has helped hundreds of new students determine their goals. As University 101 codirector, he planned and conducted training workshops for first-year seminar instructors, won a Mortar Board award for teaching excellence, and was recognized as USC advisor of the year and nationally as the Distinguished Advertising Educator nationally in 2000.

Betsy O. Barefoot is a writer, researcher, and teacher whose special area of scholarship is the first-year seminar. During her tenure at USC from 1988 to 1999, she served as codirector for research and publications at the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. She also taught University 101 and graduate courses on the first-year experience and the principles of college teaching. She conducts first-year seminar faculty training workshops around the world and is frequently called on to evaluate first-year seminar outcomes. Betsy is codirector and senior scholar in the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, North Carolina, where she led a major national research project to identify "institutions of excellence" in the first college year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 1413030750
• ISBN 13: 9781413030754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240