Connections Essentials : Empowering College and Career Success

ISBN-13: 9781319030827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str.

Paul A. Gore;Wade Leuwerke

Opis

This brief, affordable, and engaging text offers the ideal balance of motivational, study, and life skills. Written by counseling psychologists Paul Gore, Wade Leuwerke, and A.J. Metz, Connections: Essentials Edition takes a strengths-based approach and spotlights how taking purposeful action helps students set goals and build the skills they need to succeed. This is an ideal text for first-year experience courses, freshman seminar courses (particularly courses that are one or two credits) and modules on Personal Development and Employability. Connections Essentials is available with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an interactive ebook with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including ACES (the Academic and Career Excellence System) student self-assessment. See `Instructor Resources' and `Student Resources' for further information.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Building a Foundation for Success.- Chapter 2: Thinking Critically and Setting Goals.- Chapter 3: Motivation, Decision Making, and Personal Responsibility.- Chapter 4: Understanding Learning.- Chapter 5: Organization and Time Management.- Chapter 6: Reading for College Success.- Chapter 7: Taking Effective Notes.- Chapter 8: Memory, Studying, and Test Taking.- Chapter 9: Information Literacy and Communication.- Chapter 10: Connecting With Others.- Chapter 11: Personal and Financial Health.- Chapter 12: Academic and Career Planning.

O autorze

Dr Paul gore: Paul's efforts to promote college and career readiness, high school and college student persistence, and academic success are informed by more than twenty years of research, program development, implementation, evaluation, consulting, and teaching. Paul currently serves as the dean of the College of Professional Sciences at Xavier University in Ohio. Paul earned his Ph.D. in counseling psychology, with an emphasis in student career development, academic success, and transition, from Loyola University-Chicago