C.L.A.S.S. College Learning and Study Skills

This team of well known authors provides an abundance of exercises and examples to help students develop effective college study skills through active learning. Noted for its interactive text/workbook format and its student-friendly style. Provides full-length chapters from college texts so students can apply their study skills to realistic post-secondary topics. Popular Write to Learn exercises monitor students comprehension of each chapter through writing exercises. Chapter-opening maps help students visualize chapter content (right-brain approach). This edition includes personality assessments (MBTI), coverage of brain dominance, and sensory modalities, and it includes applications for time management and study strategies and a chapter on academic and post-secondary stress (Ch. 3). Chapter 1 now includes more information on learning styles. The section on Critical Thinking (Ch. 8) now finds its basis in the work of Dr. Richard Paul, Director of the National Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State. Relevant information about on-line and Internet resources has been added (Ch. 9).

Debbie Longman is currently an associate professor at Southeast Louisiana State University. She received her PH.D from Louisiana State University and has been teaches college reading and developmental education courses for 20 years. Debbie (with co-author Rhonda Atkinson) has published dozens of textbooks and is active in NADE (the National Association for Developmental Education). Her professional interests range from incorporating critical thinking into development education to identifying individual learning styles for students with different reading skills.