Becoming a Master Student - Concise: Master Student Reader

The newest addition to the Master Student program provides a collection of contemporary readings for self-reflection and critical thinking. Structured in a way that exposes students to a variety of reading and writing styles, the Master Student Reader excerpts work from a variety of sources including student writing, textbooks, magazines, newspapers, web sites, essays, and speeches. An emphasis on journal writing provides students with a means to self assess, while additional writing requirements?such as persuasive essays, fact or opinion papers, and research papers?help students take a more traditional approach to developing critical-thinking skills.

• Power Process articles motivate and encourage students to take charge of their college experience.
• Reflection Questions stimulate in-class discussion and can be used as writing prompts.
• Writing Assignments get students thinking about audience, purpose, and length of an essay, and help them analyze the information they have learned.
• Journal Entries (Discovery and Intention Statements) allow students to reflect specifically on their personal feelings, identify new information that they have discovered in the articles, and think about how to apply these ideas in other courses and in life.
• Mastering Vocabulary prompts students to identify and define new vocabulary words.
• Additional Activities include exercises for working with classmates, alternative projects and out-of-the-box activities for students to explore their campus.

Note: Each reading is followed by Reflection Questions. Each chapter concludes with a Writing Assignment, Journal Entry, Mastering Vocabulary, and Additional Activities. Every chapter begins with The Power Process /Introduction to the readings--the purpose. Introduction: Discover What You Want The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise to Fulfill a Dream by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt Flow Learning--The Myth Buster by Ronald Gross Job Outlook for College Graduates by Jill N. Lacey and Olivia Crosby 1. Ideas Are Tools Liberal Education, Work, and Human Development by Arthur W. Chickering Developmental Foundations of Critical Thinking by Joanne Gainen Kurfiss My Moment of Truth by Caroline V. Clarke and Sonja D. Brown 2. Be Here Now How to Help Them Succeed by Daniel Eisenberg Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed by Jeffrey Kluger Could You Be a Leader? by Daniel Goleman 3. Love Your Problems Too Sacred for Words: Fear of Public Speaking Can Be Overcome, Experts Insist by Mark Ellis 11 Steps to a Better Brain He Has Become a Turtle with a Tailwind by Bill Moor 4. Notice Your Pictures and Let Them Go Learning to Read by Malcom X Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds by Richard J. Light Coming Out Letter, from Troy to his mother 5. I Create It All The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise to Fulfill a Dream by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt With Age Comes Resilience, Storm's Aftermath Proves by Blaine Harden September 11, 2001:Answering the Call by Bill Moon 6. Detach Stress Management: Rolling with the Punches by John R. Hook The Secrets of Sleep by Nell Boyce and Susan Brink Looking Life in the Eyes: Finding a Path to Self-Discovery by Brian Drake 7. Find a Bigger Problem 3 Years after Attacks, Conflicting Emotions by Don Aucoin Day in the Life of Homeless in America by Sharon Cohen Stem Cells and False Hope by Mauree L. Condic The Stem Cell Controversy, excerpts by Brooke Ellison and Jack Coulehan 8. Employ Your Word What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence by Sam Dillon Honest Words: Low Impact Language by Jeffrey McQuain Writing a Wrong: Too Many Students Can't Put Pen--or Pencil--to Paper by Laura Vanderkam 9. Choose Your Conversations and Your Community Welcome to Civility 101 by Mike S. Adams 'Invisible' Disability Now Visable on Campus Back to School by Bill Schackner The AAUP's Committee on Women Responds to Lawrence Summers 10. Risk Being a Fool The Higher Purpose by Steven Schwartz How to Fight College Cheating by Lawrence M. Himan. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 11. Surrender The Fat Girl by Andre Dubus How to Get Unstuck Now! by Dr. Gail Saltz How to Avoid the Dread of Debt by Melissa Johnson 12. Be It Choosing a College Major: For the Love or for the Money? by David Koeppel College Graduates Aren't Ready for the Real World by Mel Levine The New Science of Happiness by Claudia Wallis