For courses in Study Skills, Student Success, Freshman Seminar or "University 101". The sixth edition is geared to students who are academically underprepared for college-level studies, especially first-generation and at-risk students. The text helps students build habits for success and develop the thinking, self-management, and study skills they need to succeed academically, and has been streamlined to focus more on essential study skills, with greater coverage of memory, studying, reading, and test-taking. It retains its acclaimed simple-to-use Critical and Creative Thinking coverage, and adds relevance by addressing the two greatest barriers to staying in school-time and money management. Understanding how you think is key; this revision promotes students' self-awareness, and offers a pre- and post-course assessment. The Habits for Success theme is more integrated and practical to ensure students develop the tools needed to increase their preparedness, confidence, and commitment to learning. Students and Faculty alike are encouraged to visit the central website for all Keys franchise materials, www.carterkeys.com, where you can correspond with the author team, view their speaking calendar, benefit from current articles, and more!
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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 — Habits for Success: Reality Check
Habit for Success: Persist
Take Action: Prepare to Change a Habit
Real People Persist: Yvette Gomez, Graduate of the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Powerful Questions about Persisting
Inside Tips from Sarah, Self-Management Coach
Habit Summary: Persist
Chapter 2 — Learning Styles: Building and Using Self-Knowledge
Habit for Success: Keep Learning
Real People Keep Learning: Dr. Joyce Bishop, Professor of Psychology at Golden West College
Take Action: Link How You Learn to Coursework and Major
Inside Tips from Carol, Career Coach
Powerful Questions about Continuing to Learn
Chapter 3 — Time and Money: Managing Important Resources
Habit for Success: Think Before You Act
Take Action: Make a To-Do List
Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach
Powerful Questions about Thinking Before You Act
Real People Think Before They Act: Drs. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins, Graduates of Seton Hall University
Take Action: Map Out Your Budget
Habit Summary: Think Before You Act
Chapter 4 — Setting and Reaching Goals: Using Values, Stress Management, and Teamwork
Habit for Success: Reach Out to Others
Take Action: Explore Your Core Values
Take Action: Create a SMART Goal Achievement Plan
Powerful Questions about Reaching Out to Others
Real People Reach Out to Others: Louise Gaile Edrozo, Graduate of the Registered Nursing Program at Highline Community College, Des Moines, Washington
Habit Summary: Reach Out to Others
Chapter 5 — Critical and Creative Thinking: Solving Problems and Making Decisions
Habit for Success: Create and Imagine
Take Action: Analyze a Statement
Real People Create and Imagine: Charlie Reinhardt, Graduate Student in Hotel Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Powerful Questions about Creating and Imagining
Take Action: Gather Evidence of Your Creativity
Inside Tips from Carol, Career Coach
Habit Summary: Create and Imagine
Chapter 6 — Memory: Maximizing Recall for Test Success
Habit for Success: Put Your Senses to Work
Real People Put Their Senses to Work Through the Power of Memory: Henry Gustav Molaison, a Man Without a Memory
Take Action: Linking Memorization and Critical Thinking
Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach
Take Action: Create Your Own Mnemonic
Powerful Questions about Putting Your Senses to Work
Habit Summary: Put Your Sense to Work
Chapter 7 — Reading and Studying: Focusing on Print and Online Materials
Habit for Success: Ask Questions
Take Action: Survey a Text
Inside Tips from Sarah, Self-Management
Real People Ask Questions: Candace Payne, George Washington University, Pre-Med Student
Take Action: Mark Up a Page to Learn
Powerful Questions about Asking Questions
Habit Summary: Ask Questions
Chapter 8 — Reading Across the Disciplines: Math, Science, Social Science, and Literacy Texts
Habit for Success: Use What You Know
Powerful Questions about Using What You Know
Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach
Real People Use What They Know to Learn and Solve Problems: Laban Seyoum, Political Science Graduate Student, Southern Connecticut State University
Take Action: Connect Courses in Different Disciplines to Your Own Success
Habit Summary: Use What You Know
Chapter 9 — Active Listening and Note Taking: Taking In and Recording Information
Habit for Success: Listen Actively
Powerful Questions about Listening Actively
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