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| Front Matter | |
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| Introduction Making Transitions | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| This book is worthless--if you just read it | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Textbook reconnaissance | |
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| Get the most out of this book | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Commitment | |
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| The Discovery and Intention Journal Entry System Discovery and Intention Statement guidelines | |
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| Discovery Statement Recalling excellence | |
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| Making the transition to higher education | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement: Plan for transition | |
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| Classroom civility--what's in it for you | |
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| Succeeding in higher education--at any age | |
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| Connect to resources Link to the world of work | |
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| Ways to change a habit | |
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| Discovery Statement Choosing your purpose | |
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| Power Process: Discover what you want | |
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| First Steps | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| First Step: Truth is a key to mastery | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Create value from this chapter | |
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| Taking the First Step | |
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| The Discovery Wheel | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Roll your discovery wheel | |
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| Motivation--I'm just not in the mood | |
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| The Master Student | |
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| Claim your multiple intelligences | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Develop your multiple intelligences | |
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| Learning styles: Discovering how you learn | |
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| Learning Style Inventory | |
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| Take a snapshot of your learning styles | |
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| Scoring your Inventory | |
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| Learning Style Graph | |
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| Learning styles across the curriculum | |
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| Returning to the big picture about learning styles | |
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| Balancing your preferences | |
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| Using your learning style profile to succeed | |
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| Learning by seeing, hearing, and moving: The VAK system | |
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| The value of higher education | |
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| Attitudes, affirmations, and visualizations | |
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| Power Process: Ideas are tools | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Lalita Booth | |
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| Time and Money | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| You've got money and time for what you really want | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Create value from this chapter | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: The Time Monitor/Time Plan process | |
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| Setting and achieving goals | |
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| Discovery Statement: Asses your use of time | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Get real with your goals | |
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| The ABC daily to-do list | |
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| Gearing up: Using a long-term planner | |
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| Get the most out of now | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: The Money Monitor/Money Plan | |
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| Journal Entry 29 Discovery/Intention Statement Reflect on your Money Monitor/Money Plan | |
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| Take charge of your credit | |
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| You can pay for school | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Education by the hour | |
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| Power Process: Be here now | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Al Gore | |
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| Memory | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| Take your memory out of the closet | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Create value from this chapter | |
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| The memory jungle Memory techniques | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Remembering your car keys--or anything else | |
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| Mnemonic devices | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Get creative | |
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| Mastering Technology: Use your computer to enhance memory | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Move from problems to solutions | |
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| Power Process: Love your problems (and experience your barriers) | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Pablo Alvarado | |
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| Reading | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| Muscle Reading | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement | |
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| Discover what you want from this chapter | |
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| Three phases of Muscle Reading | |
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| When reading is tough | |
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| Get to the bones of your book with concept maps | |
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| Reading fast | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Relax | |
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| Read with a dictionary in your lap | |
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| The twenty-first century researcher--using your library | |
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| English as a second language | |
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| Reading with children underfoot | |
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| Power Process: Notice your pictures and let them go | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Wilma Mankiller | |
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| Notes | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| The note-taking process flows | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Get what you want from this chapter | |
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| Observe | |
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| Record | |
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| Review | |
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| Enroll your instructor in your education | |
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| When your instructor talks fast | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Television note taking | |
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| Taking notes while reading | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Revisit your goals | |
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| Becoming an online learner | |
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| Power Process: I create it all | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Harvey Milk | |
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| Tests | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| Disarm tests | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement | |
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| Use this chapter to transform your experience of tests | |
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| What to do before the test | |
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| Cooperative learning: Studying in groups | |
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| What to do during the test | |
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| The test isn't over until | |
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| The high costs of cheating | |
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| Let go of test anxiety | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Things I like to do | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Notice your excuses and let them go | |
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| Discovery Statement Explore your feelings about tests | |
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| Getting ready for math tests | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Use learning styles for math success | |
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| Celebrate mistakes | |
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| Power Process: Detach | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Burt and John Jacobs | |
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| Thinking | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| Critical thinking: A survival skill | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Choose to create value from this chapter | |
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| Becoming a critical thinker | |
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| Ways to create ideas | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Fix-the-world brainstorm | |
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| Don't fool yourself: Common mistakes in logic | |
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| Gaining skill at decision making | |
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| Define your values, align your actions | |
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| Choosing your major | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Make a trial choice of major | |
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| Think critically about information on the Internet | |
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| Overcome stereotypes with critical thinking | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Explore emotional reactions | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Reflect on choosing a major | |
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| Power Process: Find a bigger problem | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Twyla Tharp | |
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| Communicating | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| Communicating in a diverse world | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Commit to create value from this chapter | |
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| Choosing to listen | |
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| Choosing to speak | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Discover communication styles | |
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| Developing emotional intelligence | |
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| Managing conflict | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Write an "I" message | |
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| Thriving with diversity | |
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| Staying smart in cyberspace--safe social networking | |
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| Strategies for effective writing | |
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| Speaking in class | |
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| Power Process: Employ your word | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Sampson Davis | |
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| Health | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| Wake up to health | |
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| Discovery Statement Take a First Step about health | |
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| Choose your fuel | |
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| Choose to exercise | |
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| Choose freedom from stress | |
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| Choose to stay safe | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Addiction: How do I know? | |
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| Alcohol and other drugs: The Truth | |
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| Power Process: Surrender. | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Randy Pausch | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Master Student Map | |
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| Now that you're done--begin | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Revisiting what you want | |
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| "?use the following suggestions to continue?," | |
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| Create your career now | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Create your career plan--now | |
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| Jumpstart your education with transferable skills | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Recognize your skills | |
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| Use r?sum?s and interviews to "hire" an employer | |
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| Choosing schools... again | |
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| Service learning: The art of learning by contributing | |
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| Join a diverse workplace | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: Discovery Wheel--coming full circle | |
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| Discovery/Intention Statement Revisiting your Discovery Wheel | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise: This book shouts: "Use me! " | |
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| Power Process: Be it | |
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| Put It to Work | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Skills Snapshot | |
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| Master Student Profile: Lisa Ling | |