Your College Experience: Strategies for Success (The Freshman Year Experience Series) - Softcover

Jewler, A. Jerome; Gardner, John N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534199623 ISBN 13: 9780534199623

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 1993

Synopsis

YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, Concise Fifth Media Edition, is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to learning the skills necessary to succeeding in the first year of college and beyond. Academic and personal skills are covered succinctly but thoroughly in this extensively revised edition. Each chapter of the book is co-written with consultants who are experts in their respective fields. The book is packaged with a free updated CD-ROM that contains additional readings, a variety of exercises not found in the book, self-assessments and opportunities for students to test their knowledge and try out new skills. Adopters of the book can also benefit from the extensive College Success program Wadsworth offers, including student assessment, teacher training workshops and additional student and instructor resources.

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.

Jerome Jewler is a best-selling author, educator, and friend to students. A distinguished professor emeritus of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies as well as codirector of the University 101 first-year seminar at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Jewler has guided advertising students through the creative and writing processes and has helped hundreds of new students determine their goals. As University 101 codirector, he planned and conducted training workshops for first-year seminar instructors, won a Mortar Board award for teaching excellence, and was recognized as USC advisor of the year and as the Distinguished Advertising Educator nationally in 2000.

Review:

"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."

"The text is written in a concise, lively, readable way which will appeal to first-year students. Unlike some texts, this one respects the intelligence of students and doesn’t "talk down" to them."

"...there are a number of exemplary topics. The chapter on alcohol is excellent for students to read in their dorm room where they do not feel challenged or judged. All the topics in Part 3 are so relevant to today’s college student. Reality checks."

"The features are the selling point of this text. I know that the students would readily use this CD-ROM. You stand to be commended."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0534199623
• ISBN 13: 9780534199623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24
• Editor: McCarthy Mary-Jane