Becoming Master Student

Becoming a Master Student consistently gives students a framework for examining their lives from a self-discovery perspective, and the Tenth Edition continues this student-created, value-based approach to life and learning. The relevant articles, strategies, and exercises throughout the text help students understand their own strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and practice academic and life skills. Students are inspired and motivated to acquire and develop the skills needed for success in college and throughout life.

The Course Manual for instructors offers detailed support for each topic in the text and is tied to the HM ClassPrep CD-ROM, which provides text-specific tools, such as teaching tips, exercises, quizzes, and chapter-related web links.

• Student Voices features in every chapter connect former students with current ones, showing how the skills within the text can be applied to real life.
• Workplace Applications exercises help students learn how to apply their academic time management skills in their future careers.
• Parts of chapters 9 and 10 have been combined into a succinct chapter on effective communication through writing and speaking.
• A new chapter on effective financial strategies and resources includes an article offering suggestions on paying off student loans and preventing credit card debt.
• Updated coverage includes new web links and web related exercises; specific strategies for improving reading speed, comprehension, and retention; articles and exercises on diversity; and more strategies for avoiding procrastination.
• Updated Master Student Profiles include Greg Louganis, Student Success scholarship winner Suny Urrutia Moore, and Isabel Allende.
• Improved coverage of learning styles includes updated explanations and terminology in the Learning Style Inventory feature.