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The secret syllabus : a guide to the unwritten rules of college success
Every student must follow the unwritten rules of success to thrive in college. The Secret Syllabus equips students with the tools they need to succeed, revealing the unwritten rules, cultural norms, and expectations not included in the official curriculum. Left to figure out how the academic world works, students frequently stumble, underperform, and miss opportunities. Without mastery of the secret syllabus, too many miss out on the full, rich experience available to them in college.
Jay Phelan and Terry Burnham share the essential lessons they have learned from struggling, unfocused students and award-winning college instructors and researchers. The Secret Syllabus draws on Phelan and Burnham’s experiences with thousands of undergraduate and graduate students. Weaving engaging storytelling with practical, actionable advice, they illustrate both productive and counterproductive approaches to achieving academic excellence and highlight the importance of setting and attaining goals, nurturing strong relationships, developing resiliency, and more.
This fresh, funny, and boldly innovative book enables students to develop consistently winning and effective behaviors that will equip them to thrive on campus and beyond.
The education of character : lessons for beginners : 33 lessons for college and university students on the art of being a person
This concise guide, designed for the student orientation course or any course addressing the transition of student life, is authored by popular speaker Will Keim. Thirty-three lessons introduce issues as diverse as changing views of culture and the restructuring of alternative families.
College survival : a crash course for students by students / by Greg Gottesman, Daniel Baer, and friends.
Advice for college students covers study habits, computers, roommates, dating, expenses, illness, and safety
The ultimate college survival guide
Offers new college students advice on packing, dorm life, opening a bank account, homesickness, selecting classes, managing time, preparing for tests, extracurricular activities, dating, and choosing a major
A survival guide for students : tips from the trenches
Getting off on the right foot -- Staying on track -- The goal zone -- It's all in your mind -- Study skills -- Testing and other high-stress events -- Getting organized -- Works and plays well with others -- Say it and hear it -- Holistic hints -- All about money -- The job in your future.
The all-in-one college guide
A more-results, less-stress plan for choosing, getting into, finding the money for, and making the most of college.
Connect college to career : a student's guide to work and life transitions
- Transitions, expectations, and the journey ahead -- From college to corporate culture: you're a freshman again -- Coming of age: young adult development -- Cognitive development during and after college: what you should know about knowing -- Intelligence revisited: what it really means to be smart -- Motivation and learning: principles that work when you do -- Relationships: at home, at work, in the community -- Working to your heart's content -- Looking back and moving forward.
How to do a research project : a guide for undergraduate students
In How to Do a Research Project, Colin Robson has created an essential tool for students. Written specifically to address the needs and concerns of the undergraduate, this tightly focused volume guides students through the process of conducting and completing a research project and is relevant to all disciplines that require the use of social research methods.
Friendly and accessible, this text includes a number of accompanying support materials to aid students further. Closely integrated sets of end-of-chapter tasks covering all aspects of research projects from design to completion, as well as lists of suggested further reading, enhance each chapter. Additionally, an extensive associated website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/researchproject gives students access to a wide range of helpful materials relevant to their particular needs, making this book an invaluable resource.
Foundations : a reader for new college students
FOUNDATIONS: A READER FOR NEW COLLEGE STUDENTS, Fifth Edition, helps students understand what to expect in college and guides new students in their exploration by asking critical questions that are important to their success. Virginia N. Gordon and Thomas L. Minnick present a selection of readings that include several perspectives on each topic, providing the opportunity to consider and compare a number of different points of view. Your students will explore issues surrounding technology, diversity, civic rights and responsibilities, and more. It is a great way for first-year students to get started on the path to success in college.
Road map for graduate study : a guide for prospective graduate students
Road Map for Graduate Study is written by a career insider who seeks to educate and enlighten individuals not only about the inquiry and application process, but also about how to succeed in graduate school. Readers are taken from A to Z with respect to the graduate school experience. The book covers research on graduate programs and institutions, the application process, and how to succeed once enrolled. Prospective students will have the tools to navigate the journey to earning a master's or doctoral degree. Road Map features personal questions to ask about your motivation to earn a graduate degree, a twelve-month checklist before applying, seven ways to get recognized as an applicant, seven deadly sins for applicants, how to respond if wait listed, denied or admitted, how to make the final enrollment decision, and fifteen essential pointers on thriving in grad school.
How professors think : inside the curious world of academic judgment
Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? Michèle Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships and research grants and interviewed panel members at length. In How Professors Think, she reveals what she discovered about this secretive, powerful, peculiar world. Lamont aims to illuminate the confidential evaluation process and push the gatekeepers to understand better and perform their role.
Student's guide to writing college papers
High school students, two-year college students, and university students all need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper—and for decades Kate Turabian’s Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. In the new fourth edition of Turabian’s popular guide, the team behind Chicago’s widely respected The Craft of Research has reconceived and renewed this classic for today’s generation. Designed for less advanced writers than Turabian’s Manual of Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams here introduce students to the art of defining a topic, doing high-quality research with limited resources and writing an engaging and solid college paper.
Your complete guide to college success : how to study smart, achieve your goals, and enjoy campus life
Your Complete Guide to College Success is an up-to-date, evidence-based book that provides a roadmap for success in college—and afterwards.
College and real life aren’t the distinct worlds they are often made out to be. With the skills, knowledge, and attitudes you’ll learn in this book, you can tackle college work and cope effectively with issues such as learning most effectively and efficiently, figuring out the social scene, defining and accomplishing your goals, and creatively adapting to a changing world. Your Complete Guide to College Success covers a comprehensive set of academic and personal topics and distills research results and advice into a student-friendly, readable package.
Should I go to grad school? : 41 answers to an impossible question
The decision to attend graduate school is easy for future doctors and lawyers: they must have a professional degree to get started. But for young creative workers, aspiring artists, and intellectuals, grad school is an existential fork in the road. An M.F.A. or a humanities Ph.D. can give you time to invest in studying something you love among like-minded intellectuals and qualify you to teach a new generation of students; but it can also uproot you geographically, expose you to backstabbing competitors, and saddle you with debt. Given the current job market, is grad school really worth it-financially, professionally, and emotionally?
In Should I Go to Grad School?, a wide range of people who lead intellectually and creatively interesting lives-sculptors and philosophers, activists and poets, a cocktail designer and a movie star-tell their own stories about choosing to go to grad school-or steering clear-and what that decision has meant in their lives. They give us an inside look at what grad school today is really like, and share the wisdom they wish they could have had going in. They reflect on their divergent paths to success, and muse about the path not taken.