Cornerstone: Building on Your Best, Concise Edition - Tapa blanda

"Of primary importance is for students to begin to understand their responsibilities in the learning environment. The revision continues to emphasize a student-centered approach to change in college." - Bennie Perdue, Miami Dade Community College "On Persist: "I especially like the subtitle 'Things You Need to Know About College, But Might Never Ask' because it tags the new student's dilemma: they don't know what they don't know." - Marie Zander, New York Institute of Technology ". . . the new exercises require the students to use critical thinking skills that I believe are essential to the academic success of every college student. . ." - Betty Fortune, Houston Community College ". . . the section which asks students to reflect on the question of what their college expects of them .... provides clarity to students to begin to take responsibility for their education and look at the importance of taking an active role in their education." - Joan O'Connor, New York Institute of Technology

For courses in Freshman Orientation, Student Success, Study Skills Life Skills, and Career Development. This text offers one of the most complete, concrete student success programs in the country, with suggestions and strategies for academic success and personal improvement-including goals, change, and career/life planning. Visually stunning, conversationally written, and student-tested, the book provides students with a variety of solutions to almost any problem faced in the first year of college and beyond.