Keys to College Studying: Becoming a Lifelong Learner - Softcover

This text offers a contemporary, refreshing approach to traditional coverage of study skills. Concepts and strategies are presented in a context that helps you understand the broader, real-world applications for well-developed study skills. The premise of this book is that strong academic skills form the foundation necessary for your success in our competitive, global economy.

This book offers knowledge and skills that build self-management, a positive work ethic, and leadership qualities:

• Identifying and using your preferred learning styles
• Goal setting
• Time management
• Flexibility in the face of change
• Ways to reduce stress
• Strategic thinking

You will develop skills that help you fulfill your goals in school and, ultimately, in your career:

• Reading speed and comprehension
• Internet research skills
• Vocabulary skills
• Writing skills
• Math, science, and technology skills

Unique features that underscore relevancy:

• Vocabulary exercises featuring words from current media excerpts
• Chapter summaries in a map format to stimulate visual learning
• A text-wide focus on how your study skills will help you on the job

Keys to College Studying has its own companion website designed to help students review the text material and hone their computer skills. This site (accessed through www.prenhall.com/carter) resides within the Prentice Hall supersite (www.prenhall.com/success) for student success and career development. The supersite houses a wide array of resources for students seeking academic and career success.

Carol Carter is founder of Lifebound, a career coaching company that offers individual coaching sessions and seminars for high school students, college students, and career seekers. She has written and co-authored multiple texts. She has taught welfare-to-work classes, team taught in the La Familia Scholars program, and conducted numerous workshops for students and faculty around the country. Carol is a national college and career expert and is interviewed regularly in print, on the radio, and for television news programs.

Joyce Bishop holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has taught for more than 20 years, receiving a number of honors, including Teacher of the Year for 1995 and 2000. For five years she has been voted "favorite teacher" by the student body and Honor Society at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California, where she has taught since 1987 and is a tenured professor. She worked with a federal grant to establish Learning Communities and Workplace Learning in her district, and has developed workshops and trained faculty in cooperative learning, active learning, multiple intelligences, workplace relevancy, learning styles, authentic assessment, team building, and the development of learning communities. Joyce currently teaches on-line and multimedia classes, and trains other faculty within her 21 college district. In addition, she has co-authored multiple texts and is the lead academic for the Lifelong Learning Telecourse. Sarah Lyman Kravits comes from a family of educators and has long cultivated an interest in educational development. She has co-authored several books and has served a Program Director for LifeSkills, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to furtherthe career and personal development of high school students. In this role, she helped facilitate both curricular and organizational elements of the program, working closely with instructors as well as members of the business community. Sarah has also given workshops on critical thinking.