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Foundations: a reader for new college students
Publisher
Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Publication Date
c2011
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 5th ed.
Preface
How to Keep a Journal
Unit 1. The Value of a College Education: Why Am I in College?
Why Go To College? Two Classic Answers / William Johnson Cory / John Henry Newman
The Lure of Learning / William J. Bennett
The Value of a College Education / GetRichSlowly.org
The Evolution of Undergraduate Education / Derek Bok
Unit Summary
Unit 2. What Can I Expect from College and How Will I Change?
The Developing College Student / Virginia N. Gordon
Seniors' Advice to New Students
The Stakes are Low / Ben Bernstein
Four Pieces of Advice / Jennifer Rosella
Things I Wish I Knew as a Freshman / Andrew Gordon-Seifert
Tips on Becoming Personally Effective / Susan Jones Sears
Loneliness / Barbara M. Newman / Philip R. Newman
Three Paths to Financial Freedom / Dave Ellis
Unit Summary
Unit 3. How Can I Succeed Academically?
How to Win at College / Cal Newport
Using Time and Space Effectively / Walter Pauk / Ross J. Q. Owens
Want Good Advising? Take the Initiative! / Howard K. Schein / Ned S. Laff / Deborah R. Allen
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Electives / Thomas L. Minnick
Please! It's Only Seven Minutes Late, Professor / Joel J. Gold
Why I Don't Let Students Cut My Classes / William R. Brown
Unit Summary
Unit 4. How Should I Expect to Learn?
Minds Viewed Globally / Howard Gardner
Learning Styles: They Can Help or Hinder / Al Siebert / Bernadine Gilpin
The Power of Memory / Regina Hellyer / Carol Robinson / Phyllis Sherwood
How Do I Find Out What Faeulty Are Doing? / Howard K. Schein / Ned S. Laff / Deborah R. Allen
How to Become an Expert Problem Solver / Karl Albrecht
Unit Summary
Unit 5. What About Technology?
The Challenge of Technology / A. W. Bates / Gary Poole
A Generation Bathed in Bits / Don Tapscott
Losing Stuff Has Never Been So Sad / Leonard Pitts
Emailreplies.com, E-mail Etiquette
Unit Summary
Unit 6. What Are My Rights and Responsibilities as a Student?
On Academic Freedom / William H. Halverson / James R. Carter
Ideas as Property / Thomas L. Minnick
You and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act / C. L. Lindsay III
College of Business, College Cheating Is Bad for Business / W. P. Carey
Avoiding Plagiarism / Rosemarie Menager / Lyn Paulos
Unit Summary
Unit 7. What Is Diversity and Why Is It Important?
From Diversity to Inclusivity / Thomas Brown
I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King
How Discrimination Works and Why It Matters: Five Personal Statements
The Face of Racism / Edward A. Delgado-Romero
Personal Narrative of an Asian American's Experience with Racism / Donna M. Talbot
What Could I Know of Racism? / Joy E. Weeber
Pain and Perseverance: Perspectives from an Ally / Lisa J. Brandyberry
A College Senior Speaks about Diversity: The Disability Perspective / Skylar Covich
Affirmative Action and Multiculturalism / David Bruce Ingram / Jennifer A. Parks
Unit Summary
Unit 8. What Should I Know About Careers?
A Career that Fits You / Nicholas A. Lore
The Relationship between College and Work / Donald Asher
Job Search: Chance or Plan? / Mark Ballard
An Internship-Your First Big Career Break / Dave Home
Adjust to Change / Arthur D. Rosenberg
Unit Summary
Unit 9. Setting Future Goals: Now Is the Time To Start
Here Life Comes / Mel Levine
The Next Great Collegiate Generation / Neil Howe / William Strauss
Grow Up? Not So Fast / Lev Grossman
To the Graduates / Christopher Reeve
The First Lady's Challenge to the Graduates / Michelle Obama
Unit Summary
Author Index
Subject Index
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ISBN
9781439086056
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