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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The First Piece: Assessing Yourself and Your Environment | |
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| Focused Reflection | |
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| Finding Meaning: Recognizing Characteristics That Lead to Academic Difficulty and Success | |
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| Figuring Out Your GPA and other Perplexing Puzzles | |
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| Academic Goals | |
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| The Second Piece: Balancing Your Life | |
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| Part I How Do You Become an Educated Person? Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| Psychosocial Theories | |
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| Solving the Problem of Motivation | |
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| Setting Goals for a Balanced Life | |
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| Managing Time by Living on Purpose | |
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| Goals and Decision Making | |
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| Turning Goals into Actions | |
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| Staying Balanced | |
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| The Third Piece: Lifelong Learning | |
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| Gaining Perspective on How You Learn: A Lifelong Task | |
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| Beginning with What You Have Done: Thinking about Past Performance | |
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| Developing Your Intellectual Muscle | |
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| Multiple Intelligences | |
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| How Do You Prefer to Learn? Meeting the Demands of Your Learning Situation | |
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| Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Understand Your Professors' Ways of Thinking | |
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| At This Point, What Have I Learned about Myself and My Professors? Stages of Cognitive Development | |
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| Women's Ways of Knowing | |
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| The Fourth Piece: Succeeding in School | |
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| Academic Skills: Assessing Attitudes and Beliefs | |
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| Learning through Dialogue | |
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| So Is All This Stuff Really Worth It? A Conceptual Understanding of Academic Skills | |
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| Mind Mapping | |
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| The Fifth Piece: Living in an Academic Culture | |
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| Understanding Your Campus Environment | |
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| Where Did America Come From? Intellectual Property: Plagiarism | |
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| Getting Your Ticket: Grades, Course Credits, and Diplomas | |
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| University 101: Student Life | |
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| Navigating Campus Culture | |
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| The Last Piece | |
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| Workshops | |
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| Groups Work | |
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| Career Exploration | |
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| Campus Climate: Gender and Difference | |
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| Learning Assessment | |
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| Critical Thinking | |
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| Exploring Campus Resources | |
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| Campus Connection Character Data | |
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| Index******* | |