Essential College Experience with Readings - Softcover
"The content thoroughly covers the essential elements of a [first-year] experience course. In fact, the topics have the potential to significantly impact student success."--- Marilyn R. Bowers, Walters State Community College
"I like the articles and can see how they could add greatly to the classroom experience by promoting critical thinking and discussion."--- Vicki Stieha, Northern Kentucky University
The Essential College Experience with Readings brings you only the most essential concepts of a College Success course, with one or two short readings on each topic and discussion questions that reinforce the key ideas from those readings. You'll find helpful information on topics like time management, critical thinking, taking notes, classroom participation, taking tests, doing research, making oral presentations, and more---everything you need to know to have a successful college experience!
"I like the articles and can see how they could add greatly to the classroom experience by promoting critical thinking and discussion."--- Vicki Stieha, Northern Kentucky University
The Essential College Experience with Readings brings you only the most essential concepts of a College Success course, with one or two short readings on each topic and discussion questions that reinforce the key ideas from those readings. You'll find helpful information on topics like time management, critical thinking, taking notes, classroom participation, taking tests, doing research, making oral presentations, and more---everything you need to know to have a successful college experience!
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About the Author:
John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to this writing partnership for American higher education's authoritative text for first-year seminar courses. He is the recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence. He has 25 years of experience directing and teaching in the most respected and widely emulated first-year seminar in the U.S., the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina. Gardner is universally recognized as one of the country's leading higher 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 two very influential higher education centers which support campuses in their efforts to improve the learning and retention of beginning college students: the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina (www.sc.edu/fye), and the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, N.C. (www.fyfoundations.org). The experiential basis for all of his work is his own miserable first year of college on academic probation, an experience he hopes to prevent for many of this book's readers.
Review:
"I like the articles and can see how they could add greatly to the classroom experience by promoting critical thinking and discussion. I think this reader compliments the text very nicely."
"I believe [students] will find the list of topics and readings interesting. These topics will generate lots of discussions among students in class."
"The content thoroughly covers the essential elements of a freshman year experience course. In fact, the topics have the potential to significantly impact student success."
"Overall, I think this is an excellent reader! The greatest strengths are the subjects presented to the new student. It is well reviewed and covers a vast body of information necessary for college students."
"I believe [students] will find the list of topics and readings interesting. These topics will generate lots of discussions among students in class."
"The content thoroughly covers the essential elements of a freshman year experience course. In fact, the topics have the potential to significantly impact student success."
"Overall, I think this is an excellent reader! The greatest strengths are the subjects presented to the new student. It is well reviewed and covers a vast body of information necessary for college students."
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- PublisherBedford/St. Martin's
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0312683499
- ISBN 13 9780312683498
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number6
- Number of pages284
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