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Blueprint for success in college and career

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  • Contributor: Rebus Community; BC Open Textbook Project; BCcampus
    Edition: v 1.1
    Date:
    Created
    2018
    Summary:

    "Blueprint for Success in College and Career is a students' guide for classroom and career success. This text, designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation focuses on study skills, time management, career exploration, health, and financial literacy. This book is a remix of four previously existing OER (Open Educational Resources): A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students by Alise Lamoreaux, How to Learn Like a Pro! by Phyllis Nissila, Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom, edited by Thomas Priester, College Success, provided by Lumen Learning, and one previously copyrighted textbook with content that is now openly licensed: Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies by Dave Dillon. The Blueprint for Success series comprises three books for the College Success and FYE (First-Year Experience) genre. The central text, Blueprint for Success in College and Career, is designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation. In addition, targeted sections on Study Skills and Time Management, and Career and Decision Making are available separately as Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies, and Blueprint for Success in Career Decision Making."--BC Campus website.

    Contents:
    • Unit 1. Launch
    • Unit 2. Time, Tools, and Study Environment
    • Unit 3. College Level Critical Thinking and Reading
    • Unit 4. Listening and Note-Taking
    • Unit 5. Memory Principles and Techniques
    • Unit 6. Test-Taking Strategies
    • Unit 7. Career Exploration
    • Unit 8. Social Interaction and Diversity
    • Unit 9. Health
    • Unit 10. Finances and Resources
    • Unit 11. Conclusion
    Original Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Rebus Foundation
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781989014042, 1989014046
    Collection(s)/Series: BC Open Textbooks