College Success : Books on College Success

This book offers a plan to help the new college student complete Year #1 as a member of the first group. With anecdotes from current college students and recent graduates, the book presents five simple rules that can help you get off to a strong start toward the 'best four years of your life.'

A values-based guide to navigating that critical first year of college that speaks to college students in their own language and offers practical tools that readers need to keep from drinking, sleeping or skipping their way out of college. Divided into five sections, the book tackles issues that include: Homesickness, learning who you are, real stats on mental health, and more.

Students learn about human motivation and learning as they improve their study skills. The focus is on relevant information and features designed to help students to identify the components of academic learning that contribute to high achievement, to master and practice effective learning and study strategies, and then to complete self-management studies whereby they are taught a process for improving their academic behavior.

The Secrets of College Success combines easy-to-follow tips that really work with insider information that few professors are willing to reveal. Ideal for college students at any stage, and college-bound high school students, The Secrets of College Success makes a wonderful back-to-college or high-school-graduation gift - or a smart investment in your own future.

Studying at University equips you with strategies for making the most out of the university experience from the moment you arrive until after you leave. Written with fresh insight, the book addresses key issues such as: adjusting to life at university, making presentations, working in small groups, library and computer resources, making the most from lectures and seminars, and more.

By clearly communicating the basic principles of academic honesty and exploring these principles in action, Doing Honest Work in College promotes genuine learning and academic success. This must-have reference empowers faculty and students to address questions about academic honesty before problems arise. It will be the book students turn to for advice from their first class to their final exam.

What the Best College Students Do provides more humane, doable, and inspiring help for students who want to get the most out of college--and every other educational enterprise, too. Combining academic research on learning and motivation with insights drawn from interviews with people who have won Nobel Prizes, Emmys, fame, or the admiration of people in their field, Ken Bain identifies the key attitudes that distinguished the best college students from their peers.