Your College Experience: Strategies for Success, the Reader - Tapa blanda

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Two retired professors from the University of South Carolina provide a college roadmap for incoming freshmen and suggest strategies for managing time, learning to think critically, participating in class, reading textbooks, taking tests, navigating the library, and staying healthy. Each chapter ends with personal journaling ideas and two readings.