Provides ideas, strategies, &amp; skills in a variety of areas - that can lead to success in school, on the job, &amp; in life. Paper. DLC: College student orientation - U.S.

Keys to Success, Brief Edition

Test Preparation

Carter, Carol

Bishop, Joyce

Kravits, Sarah Lyman

Bucher, Richard D.

Study & Test-Taking Skills

Pearson College Div

This book focuses on developing effective learning techniques to help readers excel in school, in their careers and throughout their lives as lifelong learners. Unlike traditional study skills books, this one emphasizes how readers learn effectively by involving them in the active process of mastering their mental abilities and their personal confidence. Success in all areas of life is emphasized. Enables readers to focus on how work in school contributes to employability in the workforce and presents opportunities to compile important work-related information for use in job searches and in the workplace itself. For readers interested in honing their learning and thinking skills and apply these skills to their career search and development.

Keys to Effective Learning (2nd Edition)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

This text addresses the needs of readers to see themselves and their future in a more meaningful way while reinforcing the most basic learning skills necessary for college and career success. The insights of the authors will help readers better understand themselves, the demands of college, and the challenges and opportunities that await them in the real world. Conceptual thinking. Chapter-ending essays and readings. Reading and writing connections. Emphasis on skills needed for the 21st century. Viewpoints. Profiles. For anyone with an interest in student orientation and career opportunity.

Majoring in the Rest of Your Life: College and Career Secrets for Students

TROYKA, Lynn Quitman

Job Hunting & Careers

This innovative manual/workbook is designed to help entry-level nursing students understand the various aspects and opportunities of the profession of nursing, and to develop both personal management and academic skills necessary to succeed in a nursing school program. Features real-life examples, stories, and interviews with nursing students and professionals; and a variety of interactive learning activities, including reflective journal exercises. Covers a full range of topics--from exploring the opportunities of the nursing profession; to discovering personal learning styles, values, and goals; to learning how to manage one's time, relationships, and money; to developing skills in reading, studying, critical thinking, note-taking and writing, listening, memory, test-taking, and lab work. For entry-level nursing school students.

Keys to Nursing Success

Katz, Janet R.

Katz, Janet

Reference

PRENTICE/HALL

For Study Skills and College Preparation courses.This new text, for 21st century students, presents a comprehensive treatment of study skills. This text has an innovative focus on lifelong learning and on how these skills will serve students in their careers. Keys to College Studying emphasizes personal learning styles and critical thinking. This coverage is unique to the study skills market.

Keys to College Studying: Becoming a Lifelong Learner

Recognizing and promoting the value of a liberal arts education, this book eases fears about the job market and focuses on the larger benefits of a liberal education—learning how to think, appreciation of the problems of humanity, a broad perspective of what it is to be human, cultural sensitivity, and much more. The book provides a serious yet fun look at the marketability of a liberal arts degree and guides students on how best to apply and benefit from it. Chapter topics discus Kinds of Liberal Arts Courses to Take, How to Choose a Liberal Arts Major, Goal Setting and Time Management, Critical and Creative Thinking, Reading and Studying, Note-Taking and Writing, and Advantages Liberal Arts Graduates can expect in the Job Market. For students at college, on the job, and of life.

Keys to Liberal Arts Success

This brief version of the best-selling book connects college skills with career and life success. With its learn-by-doing emphasis, it encourages users to think critically about their choices and goals. The Campbell Interest and Skill Survey appears as an appendix. The critical thinking and reading chapters describe media literacy and provide information about how to take in and critically evaluate information that comes through the media. Diversity & Communication material encourages readers to question diversity issues and look critically at causes, effects, and solutions to problems. Additional pertinent skill building topics include: oral presentations, technology, planning curriculum, and learning disabilities. Also, this edition now contains a substantial wellness section. For readers interested in developing skills necessary to compete and succeed in today's workforce.

Keys to Success: How to Achieve Your Goals (Brief 2nd Edition)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

This book offers honest and direct guidance to individuals concerned about their futures and making decisions related to college, majors, degrees, and careers. It presents suggestions, strategies, ideas, and systems that will enable readers and students to make the most of their educational experience. Chapter topics look at setting goals toward success, thinking critically about college decisions, exploring careers and majors, choosing a college that fits your needs, building an academic portfolio, getting the process started, listening and note taking, test taking, managing time, communicating, and being a leader. For individuals ready to take responsibility for their education, growth, knowledge, and future.

Keys to Preparing for College

Engineering & Transportation

Hadley, Lesa

Engineering

Designed to provide a foundation of vital skills that are essential in focusing in on goals that will help those who use them to achieve success and not just survival. Softcover.

Keys to Effective Learning (3rd Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Keys to Success

Self-Help

Success

Addison-Wesley

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