What’s New in the 4th Edition of College and Career Success and CollegeScope

 

The 4th Edition of College and Career Success will be available July 1, 2008.  The new Edition of CollegeScope, the interactive online e-text, will be ready for fall 2008.

New Website

Supporting materials for faculty and students are available at a new website: http://www.collegesuccess1.com 

Revised Instructor Manual

The Instructor Manual has been revised to include many new classroom activities and exercises.    The Instructor Manual now contains links to handouts and exercises which are available as Word documents.  It is located online at http://www.collegesuccess1.com

New Feature in CollegeScope

Instructors will now be able to write comments in the students’ Online Portfolios. 

Change in Chapter Order

One of the major changes is the chapter order.  Since personality and learning style are key themes in the material, they have been moved earlier in both texts.  The chapter on note taking, writing and speaking has been moved before the chapter on test taking.  This change was made because some of the note taking and review topics are needed before the test taking chapter.   The new chapter order is as follows:

Chapter 1, Understanding Motivation
Chapter 2, Exploring Your Personality and Major
Chapter 3, Learning Style and Intelligence
Chapter 4, Managing Time and Money
Chapter 5, Improving Memory and Reading
Chapter 6, Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking
Chapter 7, Test Taking
Chapter 8, Exploring Interests and Values
Chapter 9, Planning Your Career and Education
Chapter 10, Communication and Relationships
Chapter 11, Thinking Critically and Creatively
Chapter 12, Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
Chapter 13, Appreciating Diversity
Chapter 14, Looking Toward the Future

Journal Entries

In order to reduce the size and weight of the textbook, the Journal Entries are now online at http://www.collegesuccess1.com  

What’s New in the Chapters? 

    Chapter 1, Understanding Motivation

·         Updated salary figures 

·         New section: “Ten Habits of Successful College Students

·         New exercises: Success Wheel, Case Studies, Concentration Exercise


    Chapter 2, Exploring Your Personality and Major

·         Quizzes added inside the chapter

·         New Sections: Personality and Preferred Work Environment, Personality and Decision Making

·         Updated Majors and Earnings

 

Chapter 3, Learning Style and Intelligence

 

·   New quizzes added inside chapter

·   New exercises: Learning Style Applications, Paralyzers and Crystallizers

 

    Chapter 4, Managing Time and Money

 

·         Goal section rewritten to include criteria for successful goal setting

·         New exercises: Goal Setting and Lifetime Goals, Successful Goal Setting


    Chapter 5, Improving Memory and Reading

·         Memory section rewritten for clarity

·         Optimize Your Brain Power expanded

·         New exercise: Memory Scenarios

   
    Chapter 6, Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

·         This chapter comes before test taking

 

    Chapter 7, Test Taking
 
·
              New resources for test anxiety in Instructor Manual


    Chapter 8, Exploring Interests and Values

·         Quizzes added inside chapter

·         New exercise: Lifestyle Triangle, Coat of Arms


    Chapter 9, Planning Your Career and Education

·         Job trends of the future updated


    Chapter 10, Communication and Relationships

·         New Exercises: Communication Scenarios, Practice with Communication, Green Flags, Red Flags

    Chapter 11, Thinking Critically and Creatively

·         New activity: Matching with Fallacies in Reasoning

·         New section: Universal Intellectual Standards to Assure Quality Thinking
    New Critical Thinking Exercise and Worksheet: Crime and Punishment

Chapter 12, Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

·   Updated health facts

·    New exercise: Critical Thinking about Alcohol Abuse, Water or Coke?

Chapter 13, Appreciating Diversity

·         Updates on human genome project and world population statistics

·         New diversity exercises in Instructor Manual

Chapter 14, Looking Toward the Future

·    New section: Steps to Increase Happiness