Cornerstone: Building on Your Best, Concise Edition - Softcover

Montgomery, Rhonda J.; Moody, Patricia G.; Sherfield, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205282687 ISBN 13: 9780205282685

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1999

Synopsis

This book 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 learners with a variety of solutions to almost any problem faced in the first year of college and beyond. Chapter-opening vignettes—inspired by students across America— contain advice from professionals in “the world of work” such as managers from General Motors, Wal-Mart, Disney, Marriott, Bank One, and Waddell and Reed. These vignettes enable readers to see strategies and success in action and in real life. Chapter topics discuss change, managing time and money, building active reading and comprehension skills, learning styles, empowering memory, critical and creative thinking skills, and much more. For anyone embarking on a college education, or interested in bettering themselves through the “self-help” genre.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: It is never easy to deal with transition and decision-making in life...especially when factors such as careers, relationships, prejudice, and study stress are added to the equation. This book is designed to help the reader to learn to trust his or her ability to make responsible, thoughtful decisions during life's major changes and it's daily challenges. Key Topics: The "Concise Edition" of the popular Cornerstone: Building On Your Best program continues the Cornerstone emphasis on helping teachers to empower their students to make responsible choices in college and in life. It shows, rather than tells, through its real-life vignettes and self-reflective exercises that engage readers and help them look at themselves and their lives through different eyes. This book promotes growth, change, and responsible decision-making -- whether the reader is examining his/her own study habits, facing prejudices, or making difficult decision about relationships and careers. Added to the discussion are important new ideas about thinking skills, learning styles and cooperative learning. This book differs from the "big" Cornerstone through the concentration of discussion on self-esteem and motivation into one chapter, shorter discussion of relationships and campus activities, a new chapter on "Think Before You Leap: Using Critical Thinking Skills in College and in Life" and a new section on Learning Styles and Learning Preferences.Market: Teachers, educational professionals and counselors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205282687
• ISBN 13: 9780205282685
• Binding: Paperback