Cornerstone
Building on Your Best, Concise, and Video Cases on CD-ROM Package
Published on 13. May 2005
Book
Mixed media product
384 pages
978-0-13-226292-7 (ISBN)
Description
For courses in Freshman Orientation, Student Success, Study Skills Life Skills, and Career Development. This text offers one of the most complete, concrete student success programs in the country, with suggestions and strategies for academic success and personal improvement-including goals, change, and career/life planning. Visually stunning, conversationally written, and student-tested, the book provides students with a variety of solutions to almost any problem faced in the first year of college and beyond. Included with every new copy is the Video Cases on CD-ROM Activity and Learning Guide to facilitate active learning.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
885 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-226292-7 (9780132262927)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
For additional information about author Robb Sherfield, please visit his website at http://www.robertsherfield.com/pages/569567/index.htm.
Content
An Invitation to Building on Your Best.
1. Change: Dealing with Change, Setting Goals, and Getting Motivated.
2. Persist: Things You Need to Know About College, But May Never Ask.
3. Prioritize: Managing Your Time and Money.
4. Read: Building Active Reading and Comprehension Skills.
5. Learn: Multiple Intelligences, Learning Styles and Personality Typing.
6. Record: The Art of Active Listening and Note Taking.
7. Remember: Empowering Your Memory.
8. Assess: Strategies for Test Taking.
9. Think: Critical and Creative Thinking Skills.
10. Relate: A Celebration of People, Cultures, and Self.
11. Dream: Preparing for the Rest of Your Life.
Glossary.
Acknowledgments.
1. Change: Dealing with Change, Setting Goals, and Getting Motivated.
2. Persist: Things You Need to Know About College, But May Never Ask.
3. Prioritize: Managing Your Time and Money.
4. Read: Building Active Reading and Comprehension Skills.
5. Learn: Multiple Intelligences, Learning Styles and Personality Typing.
6. Record: The Art of Active Listening and Note Taking.
7. Remember: Empowering Your Memory.
8. Assess: Strategies for Test Taking.
9. Think: Critical and Creative Thinking Skills.
10. Relate: A Celebration of People, Cultures, and Self.
11. Dream: Preparing for the Rest of Your Life.
Glossary.
Acknowledgments.