College Learning and Study Skills provides an excellent in-depth examination of the academic strategies students need to succeed in class. The text offers detailed advice with little busy work and focuses on the essential areas that students need to pass their exams, complete assignments, and write informative term papers. Noted for its interactive text/workbook format and student-friendly style, all the exercises in the book help monitor students' comprehension of each chapter. Throughout the book there are numerous opportunities for the students to reflect on their own habits and to practice their writing, research, and use of the Internet. Detailed examples are integrated throughout the narrative so that students can see the application of essential study skills in a real life context.

Product Description: For freshman and re-entry students in first-year orientation courses, this interactive text empowers students to identify the situations which require a decision and to develop the strategies and skills they need to be successful...read more

An interactive, applied critical thinking and reading text for advanced developmental studies students, this book covers aspects of arguments, creativity, reasoning, language, and thinking skills, as well as information about critical thinking in the 21st century. It draws on textbook chapters in major content areas to provide relevant college examples. Uses a mnemonic (MINDS) to cue the critical thinking process: Materials, Inquiry, iNtrospection, Decision, aSsessment. Complex topics are presented with a practical approach. All chapters include "Think-to-Learn" exercises, outlines and maps, summaries and review, and college text chapter-based applications for writing or group discussion.