Investing in Your College Education Learning Strategies with Readings

With readings incorporated throughout the text and a focus on learning across the curriculum,Investing in Your Educationprovides a unique solution for higher-level student success courses. Students make significant investments in going to college--investments in time, money, and intellect. This text focuses on providing students with the tools and strategies they need to capitalize on those investments. By aligning lessons in academic and life skills with readings from textbooks, journals, magazines, web sites, and other news sources, this text exposes students to a broad range of disciplines they will likely encounter in their college career, and offers the opportunity to apply study skills to related readings. Each chapter focuses on a key student success topic and emphasizes reading and study tips associated with different course disciplines (such as psychology, math, and physical sciences). In addition, each chapter includes three readings related to the topic addressed: a selection from a college-level textbook (related to the discipline covered within the chapter), a career-related reading, and a selection focusing on a current issue of interest. The text also includes a unique chapter on service learning. Because a variety of readings are provided within each chapter, this text allows instructors the ease and flexibility of assigning relevant readings right from the book, and eliminates the need for supplemental readers or outside articles. Broad Discipline Coverage--each chapter focuses on a different course discipline to introduce first-year students (particularly undeclared majors), to the wide array of opportunities across the curriculum, and to provide them with the study skills and learning strategies they need to be successful in different course disciplines. The ten disciplines covered include: Education, Business, Physical Sciences, Psychology, Mass Media, English, Visual and Performing Arts, History, Math and Technology. Think About Itquestions at the beginning of each chapter ask students to reflect on a topic related to the upcoming material. Time Out Tipspresent brief strategies for students to use. DIY: Do-It-Yourself Activitiesoffer more involved exercises that allow students to practice strategies from the chapter. Teamwork Activitiesfocus on group dynamics. Lifelinespresent brief tips on using outside resources for aid. The Hard Waycase studies offer situations encountered by other students where problems are identified and resolutions found. What Worked for Mecase studies show the effective use of a successful strategy in a real-life context. Get Involved!features people who successfully seek outside help to solve a problem. Compounding Your Interest:"Increasing Your Yield" concludes with a list of additional resources students can turn to for more research on the discipline and topics presented in the readings.