- ISBN: 9781439085523 | 1439085528
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/10/2010
LIGHT ON THE PATH offers you advice and encouragement designed to foster greater happiness and success. John Beck and Marmy Clason blend time-tested instruction with insights drawn from God's Word, allowing Christian students like you to grow spiritually as you become comfortable with your new learning environment. This first-year success textbook distinguishes itself from others by adding the Bible's beacon of light to the traditional direction and encouragement offered to first-year college students.
Putting Light on the Path | |
Advantages of a College Education | |
Challenges for First-Year Students | |
Student Voice: Hannah Duncan | |
You Can Do It! There Is Help in This Book | |
There Is Help in God's Word | |
A Word of Encouragement | |
Plan to Succeed | |
Spiritual Health | |
Academic Habits | |
Physical Health | |
Relationships | |
Effective Goal Setting | |
Write Intention Statements | |
Turn Your Intention Statements into Goal Statements | |
Develop an Action Plan | |
Implement the Action Plan and Then There Is Motivation | |
Turning the Light on Higher Education | |
The Purpose of Higher Education | |
World View and Higher Education | |
Christian Theism | |
Deism | |
Rationalism | |
Romanticism | |
Empiricism and Pragmatism | |
Existentialism | |
Postmodernism | |
The Christian World View and Higher Education | |
Separate | |
Integrate | |
Resolving the Tension | |
Planning Your Academic Program | |
The Catalog | |
Outline of Your Academic Program | |
Registering for Your Classes | |
Academic Policies | |
Student Voice: Emily Smith | |
Your Academic Advisor | |
Choosing an Advisor | |
Using Your Advisor | |
Making Time for Everything | |
A Habit that Can be Changed | |
My Perceptions | |
My Actual Time Use | |
Building a Better | |
Time Plan | |
The Semester Plan | |
The Weekly Plan | |
The Daily Plan | |
Distractions and Procrastination | |
Distractions | |
Procrastination | |
Student Voice: Samuel Cocar | |
Defining My Style of Learning | |
Initial Impressions of My Learning Style | |
Verbal, Visual, and Kinesthetic Modes of Learning | |
Verbal Learners | |
Visual Learners | |
Kinesthetic Learners | |
Student Voice: Hilary Hurst Take the Vark! Learning Styles and Personality Type | |
Extravert/Introvert Scale | |
Sensing/Intuitive Scale | |
Thinking/Feeling Scale | |
Judging/Perceiving Scale | |
You and Your Instructors | |
Multiple Intelligences | |
Pursuing Careful Thought | |
Effective Thinking | |
Who Is the Smartest? | |
Know the Facts | |
Logically Organize the Facts | |
Creatively Think beyond the Facts | |
Critically Question the Facts | |
Effective Thinking Is a Symphony | |
Student Voice: Anne Rasschaert | |
Grow as an Effective Thinker | |
Engaging in the Classroom: Listening and Taking Notes | |
Why Take Notes? | |
be Attentive | |
Attendance | |
Preparation | |
Staying Connected | |
Student Voice: Maher Saab | |
Proceed with a System | |
Outlines | |
Paragraphs | |
Cornell Recall | |
Columns | |
Visual Maps | |
General Tips for Any Note-Taking System | |
Taking Notes during Science and Math Classes | |
End with Review | |
When? | |
How? | |
Reading to Remember | |
Did You Say 150 Pages a Week?! Not Every Kind of Reading Is the Same | |
Primary and Secondary Sources | |
Student Voice: Nyanna Potter | |
Picking the Right Time and Place to Read | |
Distraction | |
Right Time | |
Competing Noise | |
Length of Time | |
Right Place | |
Reading with Children in the Room | |
Reading with Intention | |
Different Ways to Shop | |
Different Ways to Read | |
SQ3R--Survey | |
SQ3R--Question | |
SQ3R--Read | |
SQ3R--Recite | |
SQ3R--Review | |
Recycle Your Reading | |
Design a Reading Record | |
Design a Recycling Plan | |
Scoring on Your Exams | |
Design an Exam Preparation Plan | |
Define the Scope of the Exam | |
Determine the Type of Exam | |
Establish a Preparation Schedule | |
Employ Effective Review Techniques | |
Design a Memorization Plan | |
Short-Term and Long-Term Memory | |
Memory Strategies | |
Design an Exam-Taking Strategy | |
The First Five Minutes | |
Strategies for Different Formats | |
Student Voice: Kevin Sheridan | |
Manage Your Anxiety | |
Keeping it Honest | |
Saying it Just Right: Writing and Speaking Successfully | |
Improve Your Writing Skills | |
Understanding the Assignment | |
Creating a Writing Schedule | |
Getting Ready to Write | |
Writing the First Draft | |
Student Voice: Jennifer Brantsen | |
Revising the First Draft | |
Improve Your Speaking Skills | |
Understand the Assignment | |
Basic Structure of a Speech | |
Delivery | |
Anxiety | |
Practicing | |
Research Tools You Can Use | |
Reference Materials | |
Popular Magazines and Newspapers | |
Scholarly Journals | |
Books | |
Internet Sources | |
Reference Librarians | |
Making the Tough Decisions: the Role of Christian Values | |
Not All Decisions are the Same | |
Christians and Decision Making | |
A Decision-Making Process | |
Clarify the Circumstances and the Question You Need to Answer | |
Clarify the Options | |
Identify the Pros and Cons of Each Option | |
Decide and Proceed in Confidence | |
My Aesthetic, Moral, and Personal Values | |
Aesthetic Values | |
Moral Values | |
Personal Values | |
Rethinking My Personal Values | |
Student Voice: Eric Mallet | |
Micah 6:8 | |
To Act Justly | |
To Love Mercy | |
To Walk Humbly with Your God | |
Financial Decision Making | |
God's Perspective | |
Developing a Financial Plan | |
Banks, Credit Cards, and Credit Reports | |
Seeking and Maintaining Healthy Relationships | |
Types of Relationships | |
New Friendships and Old Friendships | |
Student Voice: Alexis Glover | |
Romance in College | |
College and the Married Student | |
Parents | |
Living with Roommates | |
The Risk in Electronic Relationships | |
Faculty Connections | |
Living with Difference and Celebrating Diversity | |
Stereotypes | |
Prejudice | |
You and Diversity | |
Maintaining Healthy Relationships | |
The Qualities of Healthy Relationships | |
Conflict Is Natural and Inevitable | |
Managing Conflict in Relationships | |
God's Love Empowers Our Relationships | |
Maintaining the Temple: Physical and Mental Wellness | |
Physical Health Habits | |
Sleep | |
Student Voice: Lauren Burge | |
Diet | |
Exercise | |
Alcohol and Drug Use | |
Mental Health Habits | |
Stress | |
Suicide | |
Responding to Personal Tragedy | |
Seeking Satisfaction in My Career | |
Finding a Career Takes Work | |
The World of Work in Your Future | |
General Predictions | |
Career Field Predictions | |
Discovering, Confirming, and Changing Your Choice | |
What Is My Work Personality? | |
What are My Work Values? | |
How Do I Personalize My Career Choice? | |
How Does My Christianity Affect My Career Choice? | |
Student Voice: Peter Beck | |
Living College Life to Get an Interview | |
Get Personal Experience | |
Gather Your Evidence and Support Team | |
Prepare Your R?sum? | |
Epilogue | |
Index | |
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