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College Study: The Essential Ingredients, 2/E
Sally Lipsky

ISBN-10: 013158524X
ISBN-13: 9780131585249

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 168 pp
Published: 05/01/2007

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For Study Skills or Learning Strategies courses, first-year seminars, or for use as a supplementary text for Peer Educator training courses.

 

Building on the success of the first edition, this revised edition of College Study contains a complete and balanced coverage of essential learning and study techniques, with an emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving at the college level. Using an active learning approach, this text integrates student behaviors, attitudes, and learning styles focusing on reader choice, application, and assessment of practical strategies.  This concept creates an effective, efficient, and individualized system of study that guides students to become self-regulating learners. New features includeThe VARK Questionnaire, strategies for Online Learning, Critical Thinking Tasks, Comprehension checks, and Companion website.

  • Active learning—Guides students to become responsible, self-directed learners.

    • Gives students an adragogical or adult learner approach to post-secondary education, and includes self monitoring problem-solving meaningful applications, increasingly important considering the rapid technological and knowledge advances in contemporary society.

  • Emphasis on Strategies —Covers important and practical study techniques; and includes “Essential Ingredients,” (key elements) for each major chapter topic.

    • Enables students to immediately apply these strategies in their daily academic courses.

  • Emphasis on student Attitude.

    • Provides students with opportunities to explore their levels of interest, motivation, and commitment to learning techniques.

  • Emphasis on Learning Styles--presents the VARK Questionnaire, an instrument assessing Visual, Aural, Read/write and Kinesthetic preferences for learning.

    • Enables students to become aware and apply techniques based on how they learn best.

  • “Personal Action Statements” and “Assess Your Success” application activities—The step-by-step plans are included at the end of each chapter. Students indicate how they will use the strategy of their choice; after they critique the effectiveness of their choice.

    • Move students toward positive, focused, and self-directed change by allowing them to monitor their own behaviors, attitudes, and styles.

  • “Pause and Reflect” exercises—Guide the direction of students' observations and commentary.

    • Provides students with opportunities to think about and process key ideas. Enables instructorsto use their students reflections as a basis for journal writing activities and group discussion.

  • Focus on Modeling the essentials of learning—Via both illustrations and “Students' Voices,” compelling personal reports of how other students used particular strategies.

    • Motivates students by giving them the opinions and experiences of their peers. Gives students templates to use in their own coursework.

  • “TRY IT OUT!” exercises.

    • Provides students with immediate applications and assessment of their skills in developing an effective and efficient personal assessment of study.

  • Instructor's Guide—Includes suggestions for text feature use, problem-solving scenarios, chapter quizzes, a syllabus, and answers to text exercises.

    • Gives instructors valuable course support.

  • Bargain price and compact size.

    • Gives students and instructorsunbeatable value in an easy-to-use, streamlined format.

  • Informal, personal writing style.

    • Maintains students' attention with its user-friendly manner.

NEW!  The VARK Questionnaire -- an instrument assessing Visual, Aural, Read/write and Kinesthetic preferences for learning, is incorporated within the text.

  • Gives students an immediate assessment of their individual learning preferences. These preferences are linked to specific learning strategies at the end of each chapter.

NEW!  Additional strategies for online learning.

  • Students increasingly use web-based materials in course work and enroll in distance education classes. However, few students know how to best approach web-based learning systems. Text describes strategies regarding attitude and motivation, time management and procrastination, reading, note taking, and test taking within the framework of online learning.

NEW!  Activities involving critical, creative, or problem-solving thinking skills are designated within the text.

  • Students practice such high-level thinking skills as analyzing academic behaviors and attitudes, critiquing why a strategy does or does not work, predicting and solving academic problems, differentiating types of test questions, and creating or modifying study aids that match their learning styles.

NEW!  Companion Website.  Found at www.prenhall.com/lipsky, it contains:

  • Supplemental activities for readers;
  • Templates for typing responses to text activities (when typing, students tend to produce longer and higher quality responses);
  • Problem-solving scenarios on chapter topics;
  • Information and activities linking text chapters with two widely-used instruments:  The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory, a standardized instrument for assessing personality “types” or preferences (Briggs & Myers, 1998); The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI), a self-report instrument assessing college students’ use of and attitudes toward learning and study strategies (Weinstein & Palmer, 2002).
  • PowerPoint presentations for class instruction; a culminating assignment for the text; and sample lesson plans for each chapter.                                          

NEW!  Comprehension checks included at the end of each chapter.

  • Provide a reminder and formats for students to check understanding and recall of key content.

NEW!  Chapter Terms. Key vocabulary introduced in the chapter.

  • Readers check their understanding by providing both a meaning and an example for each term. 

 

1. Creating Academic Success.
2. Managing Your Time.
3. Controlling Your Study Environment.
4. Active Listening and Note Taking.
5. Reading and Studying Textbooks.
6. Enhancing Your Memory.
7. Success with Tests.
8. Continuing Your Academic Success: A Review.
References.

“I find this to be a powerful book for incoming students, full of well-considered, useful guidelines and assists for students making the transition from high school to college today…This is the one first-year experience text I’ve reviewed in a while to which I am giving an unreserved thumbs up.”

-- Judith J. Pula

-- Frostburg State University

 

 

“The single most distinguishing concept is the meaning of the title, itself: ‘Essential Ingredients.’ The book focuses on only this and eliminates a lot of fluff that is included in many other texts… The current pedagogical and metacognitive approach to study skills matches other textbooks, but Essential Ingredients is the bacon, trimmed of the fat.”

-- Elizabeth Stewart

-- City College of San Francisco

College Study: The Essential Ingredients, 2nd edition

Sally Lipsky

 

Building on the success of the first edition, this revised edition of College Study contains a complete and balanced coverage of essential learning and study techniques, with an emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving at the college level. Using an active learning approach, this text integrates student behaviors, attitudes, and learning styles focusing on reader choice, application, and assessment of practical strategies.  This concept creates an effective, efficient, and individualized system of study that guides students to become self-regulating learners.

 

New features include:

  • The VARK Questionnaire — an instrument assessing Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic preferences gives students an immediate assessment of their individual learning styles.
  • Online Learning — addresses strategies regarding attitude and motivation, time management and procrastination, reading, note taking, and test taking within the framework of online learning.
  • Critical Thinking Tasks — provides activities involving critical, creative, and problem-solving thinking skills.
  • Comprehension checks -- provide a reminder and formats for students to check understanding and recall of key content. 

College Study now has its own Companion website which contains supplemental activities for readers; problem-solving scenarios centered on topics presented in the text chapters; learning style information and activities; and a course culminating assignment from chapter eight of the text. Instructors also have access to power point presentations for each chapter and sample lesson plans. The site (www.prenhall.com/lipsky) can also be accessed through the Student success Supersite (www.prenhall.com/success) where students and faculty will find a wise array of resources.

 

View a Sample Chapter PDF: /samplechapter/013158524X.pdf

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