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- ISBN-10 : 1260063291
- ISBN-13 : 978-1260063295
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P.O.W.E.R. Learning is the only research-based student success series with a unifying system for critical thinking and problem solving. P.O.W.E.R. Learning and Your Life: Essentials of Student Success, 4e, utilizes this P.O.W.E.R. framework to maximize students’ potential for success in college and life addressing the diverse, career student population by providing direct, practical solutions to the challenges that students face as they navigate their courses and prepare for their careers
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Table of Content:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Connect
- The Power to Evolve
- Text Features POWER Learning
- The POWER to Succeed!
- Acknowledgments
- Dear Student
- POWER: Essentials of Student Success
- 1 POWER: Becoming an Expert Student
- Looking Ahead
- Why Go to College?
- Try It! 1: Why Am I Going to College?
- Journal Reflections My School Experiences
- POWER: The Five Key Steps to Achieving Success
- Prepare
- Try It! 2: What Are Your Academic Goals?
- Organize
- Course Connections Looking at the Big Picture
- Work
- Try It! 3: Examining the Causes of Success and Failure WORKING IN A GROUP
- Evaluate
- Rethink
- Career Connections POWER and the World of Work
- Discovering Your Preferred Learning Styles
- Try It! 4: What’s Your Preferred Receptive Learning Style? PERSONAL STYLES
- Speaking of Success Rebecka Marie Clark
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- The Case of … Doubting in Denver
- 2 Making the Most of Your Time
- Looking Ahead
- Time for Success
- Prepare: Learning Where Time Is Going and Where It Should Go
- Try It! 1: Find Your Time Style PERSONAL STYLES
- Set Your Priorities
- Try It! 2: Create a Time Log WORKING IN A GROUP
- Course Connections Homework and Study Time: How Much Is Enough?
- Try It! 3: Set Priorities
- Journal Reflections Where Does My Time Go?
- Organize: Mastering the Moment
- Work: Controlling Time
- Try It! 4: Find Your Procrastination Quotient WORKING IN A GROUP
- Evaluate: Checking Your Time
- Career Connections On-the-Job Time Management
- Rethink: Reflecting on Your Personal Style of Time Management
- Speaking of Success Nataly Sandoval
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- The Case of … Time Crunched
- 3 Taking Notes
- Looking Ahead
- Taking Notes in Class
- Prepare: Considering Your Goals
- Journal Reflections How Do I Take Notes?
- Organize: Getting the Tools of Notetaking Together
- Work: Processing—Not Copying—Information
- Try It 1: Determine Your Listening Style PERSONAL STYLES
- Try It 2: Outline a Lecture WORKING IN A GROUP
- Strategies for Using Your Notes
- Evaluate: Thinking Critically about Your Notes
- Rethink: Activating Your Memory
- Try It 3: Evaluate Your Class Notes WORKING IN A GROUP
- Taking Notes as You Study
- Try It 4: Practice Your Notetaking Skills
- Career Connections Taking Notes on the Job: Meetings of the Minds
- Speaking of Success Jason M. Jno-Lewis
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- The Case of … Not Missing a Thing
- 4 Taking Tests
- Looking Ahead
- Getting Ready
- Journal Reflections How I Feel about Tests
- Prepare: Readying Your Test-Taking Strategies
- Try It 1: Measure Your Test-Taking Style PERSONAL STYLES
- Course Connections Special Techniques for Dealing with Math Anxiety
- Studying for the Test
- Try It 2: Complete a Test Preparation Checklist
- Try It 3: Form a Study Group WORKING IN A GROUP
- Organize: Facing the Day of the Test
- Taking the Test
- Work: Tackling the Test
- Try It 4: Understand Action Verbs in Essay Questions
- Career Connections Tests for a Lifetime
- Evaluate: Taking Your Own Final Examination
- Rethink: The Real Test of Learning
- Try It 5: Take a Test-Taking Test WORKING IN A GROUP
- Speaking of Success Abbey DeJuliis
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- Answers to the Items in Try It! 5
- The Case of … That Sinking Feeling
- 5 Reading and Remembering
- Looking Ahead
- Sharpen Your Reading and Memory Skills
- Journal Reflections My Reading Preferences
- Prepare: Approaching the Written Word
- Try It 1: Discover How Advance Organizers Help
- Try It 2: Create an Advance Organizer
- Organize: Gathering the Tools of the Trade
- Try It 3: Discover Your Attention Span PERSONAL STYLES
- Work: Getting the Most Out of Your Reading and Using Proven Strategies to Memorize New Material
- Course Connections Textbook Tips: Starting Off on the Right Page
- Try It 4: Mark Up a Book Page WORKING IN A GROUP
- Try It 5: Do-It-Yourself Acronyms and Acrostics WORKING IN A GROUP
- Evaluate: What Does It Mean? What Do I Know?
- Career Connections The Job of Reading
- Rethink: Getting It the Second Time
- Speaking of Success Nichole Whitney Philipp
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- The Case of … The Five-Hundred-Pound Reading Packet
- 6 Careers
- Looking Ahead
- Career Planning
- Journal Reflections Thinking about Work
- Prepare: Identifying Your Career Goals
- Try It 1: Identifying Your Long-Term Career Goals
- Organize: Finding Career Opportunities
- Work: Creating a Career Portfolio
- Try It 2: Cataloging Your Personal History WORKING IN A GROUP
- Course Connections Instructors as Career Guides
- Try It 3: Creating a Résumé
- Evaluate: Getting Feedback on Your Résumé and Cover Letter
- Rethink: Reconsidering Your Career Choices
- Acting on Your Career Plans
- Career Connections Starting Over: Once You Have a Job You Want
- Try It 4: Interviewing
- Speaking of Success Sonia Sotomayor
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- The Case of … Interviewophobia
- 7 Technology, Distance Learning, and Information Literacy
- Looking Ahead
- You and Technology
- Journal Reflections Could I Live without Technology?
- Course Connections Getting the Most Out of Instructors’ PowerPoint Presentations
- Try It 1: Using E-Mail Netiquette
- Distance Learning: Classes without Walls
- Try It 2: Assess Your Course-Taking Style PERSONAL STYLES
- Prepare: Identify Distance Learning Course Possibilities
- Organize: Obtaining Access to Technology and Other Critical Resources
- Try It 3: Get Some Distance on the Problem WORKING IN A GROUP
- Try It 4: Complete an Online Readiness Checklist
- Work: Participating in a Distance Learning Class
- Evaluate: Considering Your “Classroom” Performance
- Rethink: Reflecting on How and What You Have Learned
- Fact Finding: Developing Information Literacy
- Try It 5: Work the Web: Information, Please!
- Career Connections Using the Web at Work
- Speaking of Success Jose E. Araujo Jr.
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- The Case of … The Empty Page
- 8 Making Decisions and Problem Solving
- Looking Ahead
- Making Good Decisions: A Framework
- Prepare: Identifying Your Goals
- Organize: Considering and Assessing the Alternatives
- Try It 1: Use Freewriting WORKING IN A GROUP
- Work: Making and Carrying Out the Decision
- Career Connections Weighing Job Possibilities
- Evaluate: Considering the Outcomes
- Journal Reflections My Decision Crossroads
- Rethink: Reconsidering Your Goals and Options
- Problem Solving: Applying Critical Thinking to Find Solutions
- Try It! 2: Exercise Your Problem-Solving Skills WORKING IN A GROUP
- Don’t Fool Yourself: Avoiding Everyday Problems in Critical Thinking
- Try It! 3: Distinguish Fact from Opinion
- Course Connections Using Critical Thinking in Your Classes
- Try It! 4: What’s the Real Explanation?
- Speaking of Success Emma Frisbie
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- Answers to Try It! 2 Problems
- The Case of … Left Holding the Lease
- 9 Diversity and Relationships
- Looking Ahead
- Living in a World of Diversity
- Try It 1: Determine the Diversity of Your Community
- Prepare: Accepting Diversity as a Valued Part of Your Life
- Organize: Exploring Your Own Prejudices and Stereotypes
- Journal Reflections Thinking about Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Culture
- Career Connections Diversity in the Workplace
- Try It 2: Check Your Stereotype Quotient WORKING IN A GROUP
- Work: Developing Cultural Competence
- Evaluate: Checking Your Progress in Attaining Cultural Competence
- Rethink: Understanding How Your Own Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Background Affects Others
- Course Connections Diversity in the Classroom
- Building Lasting Relationships
- Try It 3: Switch “You” to “I” WORKING IN A GROUP
- Speaking of Success Camerron Dangerfield
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- The Case of … Keeping Your Mouth Shut
- 10 Juggling: Stress, Money, Family, and Work
- Looking Ahead
- Living with Stress
- Prepare: Readying Yourself Physically
- Try It! 1: Assess Your Susceptibility to Stress-Related Illness
- Try It! 2: Look for the Silver Lining WORKING IN A GROUP
- Keeping Well
- Course Connections Staying Alert in Class
- Managing Your Money
- Career Connections Budgeting on the Job
- Prepare: Identifying Your Financial Goals
- Organize: Determining Your Expenditures and Income
- Try It! 3: Identify Your Financial Goals WORKING IN A GROUP
- Work: Making a Budget That Adds Up
- Evaluate: Reviewing Your Budget
- Rethink: Reconsidering Your Financial Options
- Try It 4: Determine Your Saving Style PERSONAL STYLES
- Speaking of Success Tom Hanks
- Looking Back
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Resources
- The Case of … The Breaking Point
- A Final Word
- Glossary
- Endnotes
- Index
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