College Culture, Student Success (A Longman Topics Reader)

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Author: Deb Anderson

ISBN-10: 032143305X

ISBN-13: 9780321433053

Category: Higher Education - General & Miscellaneous

College Culture, Student Success helps 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.

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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.

Preface for Instructors     xvPreface for Students     xxiI Wasn't Brought Up That Way: Where Home Culture Meets College Culture     1Overview     1And Then I Went to School     2Mother Tongue     8Bricklayer's Boy     15The Meaning of Work     22Abandoned but Not Alone     25Let the Colors Run     28Making Connections     35Exploring the Web     36A Day in the Life: Opportunities and Challenges In and Out of the Classroom     39Overview     39Focusing on Friends     40Could Your Facebook Profile Throw a Wrench in Your Future?     44Drinking Deaths Draw Attention to Old Campus Problem     49We're Lying: Safe Sex and White Lies in the Time of AIDS     52Universities Seeing a Gender Gap in Enrollments     58Earning and Learning: Are Students Working Too Much?     61Making Connections     65Exploring the Web     66Who's in Charge Here?: Exploring Self-Awareness and Personal Responsibility     68Overview     68ADHD: The Cloud Lifted     69Log On to Learn     72Sticky Fingers on the Information Superhighway     78Good and Bad Procrastination     86From Single Mother to Successful Student     91Saved     96Making Connections     99Exploring the Web     100Learning and Unlearning: Reinventing Yourself as a Learner     102Overview     102Multiple Intelligences     103How to Say Nothing in 500 Words     117I Just Wanna Be Average     130Upsilamba!     144Symptoms of Math Anxiety     149Take This Quiz! (Twenty Reasons You Could Be Working Harder and Longer Than You Have to, Yet Learning Less and Receiving Lower Grades)     153Making Connections     162Exploring the Web     163Becoming an Educated Person: Intellectual Curiosity, Integrity, and Critical Thinking in College and Beyond     165Overview     165General Education and a College Degree     166The Nontraditional Student in You     169Vamos a Leer!     174A False Wikipedia "Biography"     176Ambition     180What Is the Quarterlife Crisis?     184Making Connections     190Exploring the Web     191Credits     193