Your College Experience: Strategies For Success - Softcover

Gardner, John N.; Jewler, A. Jerome

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534645216 ISBN 13: 9780534645212

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 2005

Synopsis

YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS, CONCISE MEDIA EDITION, Sixth Edition, provides students with an intelligent introduction to the basic skills and strategies that they can use to succeed in college. Both academic and social/behavioral skills are explored in this useful tool that will help students achieve and employ strategies. A Student CD-ROM is packaged with every new copy of the text. The book/CD-ROM combination provides a variety of assessments and exercises that will give the student hands-on opportunities for self-assessment and exploration.

About this title

About the Author:

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to the writing of this text. 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.

Review:

"We adopted Gardner’s text mainly because of its concise version. I also have utmost confidence in John Gardner to write a good, solid text - his research on first-year students and his expertise and experience more than qualify him. I don’t know of any areas where it really falls short."

"The additional ’features’ make this text outstanding. In particular, the self-assessment, the chapter exercises, and ’your personal journal’ are especially helpful."

"The main reason I am using this text is because it is simply the best college experience/survival skills book in print (and I review each and every one)."

"All the chapters are exemplary. I am most impressed with all the resources available and ideas on how to teach it. If a teacher will spend the time to become familiar with the text and all supporting material, we could be effective in reducing the dropout rate."

"I am pleased with the way the topics are organized. I like how the first chapter "sells" college in general as well as the need for a Student Success course. This really builds motivation."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0534645216
• ISBN 13: 9780534645212
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 201