Ellis, Dave.
Becoming a Master Student (6th Canadian Edition) / David B. Ellis, Doug Toft and Debra Dawson. - 6th Canadian ed. - Toronto : Nelson Education Ltd. ; 2016. - xxi, 456 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
"Adapted from Becoming a Master Student, Fourteenth Edition, by Dave Ellis, Doug Toft, and Dean Mancina, published by Wadsworth Cenage Learning"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A time-tested, student-centred guide, Becoming a Master Student helps students make the transition from high school to post-secondary education and teaches them how to make the most of their post-secondary career as they prepare for the workforce. It provides students with the tools to discover what type of learner they are, and how this can translate into success in their academic career and for their own personal goals." (Publisher's Website)
CONTENTS: Introduction: Making Transitions Master Student Map This book is worthless - if you just read it Exercise 1: Textbook reconnaissance Get the most out of this book Exercise 2: Commitment The Discovery and Intention Journal Entry system Rewrite this book Discovery and Intention Statement guidelines Journal Entry 1: Recalling excellence
Making the transition to postsecondary education Journal Entry 2: Plan for transition Are you the typical student enrolled in postsecondary education in Canada?
Classroom civility--what's in it for you Succeeding in higher education--at any age Welcome to Canada!
Enrol your instructor in your education Meeting with your instructor Connect to school resources Exercise 3: Resources Extracurricular activities: Reap the benefits Why going to college or university matters Make the career connection You don't need this course - but you might want it Journal Entry 3: Choosing your purpose
The Power Processes: A User's Guide Power Process: Discover What You Want Quiz 1. First Steps Master Student Map First Step: Truth is a key to mastery Journal Entry 4: Create Value from this chapter Exercise 4: Taking the first step Exercise 5: The Discovery Wheel Journal Entry 5: Roll your Discovery Wheel Mastering Technology: Supplement Your Text with Online Resources Learning Styles: Discovering how you learn Journal Entry 6: Prepare for the Learning Style Inventory Directions for completing the Learning Style Inventory Learning Style Inventory Taking the next steps Scoring your Inventory Learning Style Graph Interpreting your Learning Style Graph Developing all four modes of learning Balancing your learning preferences Using your learning style profile to succeed Use the modes to learn from any instructor Connecting your mode of learning to Canadian employers' wish list Claim your multiple intelligences Exercise 6: Develop our multiple intelligences Learning by seeing, hearing, and moving: The VAK system
The magic of metacognition Motivation - I'm just not in the mood What's stopping you from getting started on your schoolwork?
Attitudes, affirmations, and visualizations Attitude replacements
Exercise 7: Reprogram your attitude
Master Student Profiles
Practising Critical Thinking 1 Power Process: Ideals Are Tools
Put It to Work
Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Joshua Miller 2. Time Master Student Map You've got the time Journal Entry 7: Create value from this chapter Exerice 8: The Time Monitor/Time Plan process Setting and achieving goals
Journal Entry 8: Assess your use of time
Exercise 9: Seeing where all the time goes Exercise 10: Create a lifeline Exercise 11: Get real with your goals The ABC daily to-do list Make choices about Multitasking Mastering Technology: Use Web-Based Tools to Save Time More strategies for planning Stop Procrastination NOW The 7-day antiprocrastination plan Practising Critical Thinking 16 ways to get the most out of now Setting limits on screen time Remember cultural differences Planning for success: What students with learning disabilities need to know Forget time management--just get things done Exercise 12: Master monthly calendar Gearing up: Using a long-term planner Power Process: Be Here Now Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Chantal Petitclerc 3. Memory Master Student Map Take your memory out of the closet Journal Entry 9: Create value from this chapter The memory jungle 14 memory techniques How to create a concept map Practising Critical THinking Student perspectives on learning online Exercise 13: Use flash cards to reinforce memory Set a trap for your memory Keep your brain fit for life Notable failures Journal Entry 10: Revisit your memory skills Remembering names Mnemonic devices Exercise 14: Get creative Mastering Technology: Use Your Computer to Enhance Memory
Practising Critical Thinking 4 Exercise 15: Move from problems to solutions
Putting it all together
Power Process: Love Your Problems (and Experience Your Barriers) Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: David Suzuki 4. Reading Master Student Map Muscle Reading Journal Entry 11: Discover what you want from this chapter How Muscle Reading works
Phase 1: Before you read
Phase 2: While you read
Five smart ways to highlight a text Phase 3: After you read Muscle Reading--a leaner approach Muscle Reading for e-books Journal Entry 12: Experimenting with Muscle Reading
Word power--expanding your vocabulary Exercise 16: Relax When reading is tough
Developing information literacy Exercise 17: Information literacy Staying literate in the digital age English as a second languge Getting past roadblocks to reading Practising Critical Thinking 5 Power Process: Notice Your Pictures and Let Them Go Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Eva Aariak 5. Notes Master Student Map The note-taking process flows Journal Entry 13: Get what you want from this chapter Observe: The note-taking process flows Journal Entry 14: Create more value from lectures What to do when you miss a class Record: The note-taking process flows Review: The note-taking process flows Journal Entry 15: Reflect on your review habits Turn Powerpoints into powerful notes When your instructor talks fast Exercise 18: Taking notes under pressure Taking notes on your journey: The art of juornal writing Taking notes while reading Note this information about your sources Online classes--taking notes and using other review tools Mastering Technology: Your Mind, Online Power Process: I Create It All Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Jaxson Khan 6. Tests
Master Student Map Disarm tests Journal Entry 16: Use this chapter to transform your experience of tests What to do ebefore the test Ways to predict tests questions Cooperative learning: Studying in groups Mastering Technology: Collaboration 2.0 Students Offering Support What to do during the test Words to watch out for in essay questions The test isn't over until ... The high costs of cheating Perils of high-tech cheating Let go of tests anxiety Have some FUN! Exercise 19: 20 things I like to do Journal Entry 17: Notice your excuses and let them go Journal Entry 18: Explore your feelings about tests
Geting ready for math tests
Succeeding in science courses Studying across the curriculum Exercise 20: Use learning styles for math success Celebrate mistakes F is for feedback, not failure Practising Critical Thinking 6 Power Process: Detach Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Georges Laraque 7. Thinking Master Student Map Critical Thinking: A survival skill Journal Entry 19: Choose to create value with this chapter Becoming a Critical Thinking
Four more questions for critical thinking Attitudes of a critical thinker
Finding "aha!": Creativity fuels critical thinking Tangram Ways to create ideas Create ways for groups to get "unstuck" Create on your feet Exercise 21: Explore emotional reactions Don't fool yourself: 15 common mistakes in logic Uncovering assumptions The problem of egocentric thinking Gaining skill at decision making
Four ways to solve problems
"But I don't know what I want to do." Choosing your major Exercise 22: Make a trial choice of major Asking questions--Learning through inquiry Practising Critical Thinking 7 Think critically about information on the Internet Mastering Technology: Rethinking email Exercise 23: Translating goals into action Journal Entry 20: Reflect on choosing a major Power Process: Find a Bigger Problem Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Wali "Flo" Shah 8. Communicating
Master Student Map Communicating creates our world
Journal Entry 21: Commit to create value from this chapter
Communication--keeping the channels open Exercise 24: Practise sending or receiving
Choosing to listen Choosing to speak Five ways to say "I" Exercise 25: Write an "I" message
Journal Entry 22: Discover communication styles
Developing emotional intelligence Mastering Technology: Setting Limits on Screen Time Managin conflict Journal Entry 23: Re-create a relationship Resolve conflicts with roommates Five ways to say no...gracefully You deserve compliments Exercise 26: VIPS (very important persons) Five steps to effective complaints
Criticism really can be constructive Collaborating for success Mastering social networks
Mastering Technology: Master Students--Get Networked Text message etiquette--Five key points
Three phases of effective writing Tools for writing group projects
Journal Entry 24: Take a first step about writing Academic integrity: Avoiding plagiarism Mastering public speaking Making the grade in group presentations Honing your leadership skills Practising Critical Thinking 8 Power Process: Employ Your Word Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Neil Pasricha 9. Diversity Master Student Map Waking up to diversity
Diversity in Canada Journal Entry 25: Commit to create value from this chapter Diversity is real--and valuable Building relationships across cultures High versus low context cultures Exercise 27: Becoming a culture learner Overcome stereotypes with critical thinking
Students with disabilities: Know your rights Dealing with sexism and sexual harassment Strategies for nonsexist communication
Cyberbullying Leadership in a diverse world Journal Entry 26: Removing barriers to communication Journal Entry 27: Reflect on the quality of a recent conversation Practising Critical Thinking 9 Power Process: Choose Your Conversations and Your Community Put It to Work Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Trey Anthony 10. Money
Master Student Map The end of money worries
Journal Entry 28: Commit to a new experience of money Exercise 28: The Money Monitor/Money Plan No budgeting required
Journal Entry 29: Reflect on your Money Monitor/Money Plan Make more money Mastering Technology: Protect Your Money Online Spend less money Exercise 29: Show me the money Managing money during tough times Take charge of your credit Exercise 30: Education by the hour If you're in trouble... Common credit terms Money for the future You can pay for school Education is worth it Your learning styles and your money Practising Critical Thinking 10 Power Process: Risk Being a Fool Put It to Work Quiz Skill Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Régine Chassagne & Edwin Farnham Butler 11. Health
Master Student Map Wake up to health Journal Entry 30: Take a first step about your health Choose your fuel Eating well with Canada's Food Guide Prevent and treat eating disorders Choose to exercise Choose to rest Ways to change a habit Choose mental health Is it just me who feels stressed out? Observe Yourself Journal Entry 31: Choose to be healhy Choose to stay safe Choose sexual health: Prevent infection Choose sexual health: Protect against unwanted pregnancy Men, consider your health Journal Entry 32: Choose to break a habit
Journal Entry 33: Choose to be you Developing self-efficacy Emotional pain is not a sickness Suicide is no solution Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs: The truth Some facts... I wouldn't bet on it Exercise 31: Addiction: How do i Know...? From dependence to recovery
Binge Drinking _Avertising can be dangerous to your health Journal Entry 34: Advertisements and your health Journal Entry 35: Choose a new level of health Practising Critical Thinking 11
Be smoke free Power Process: Surrender Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Clara Hughes 12. What's Next? Master Student Map Now that you're done - begin Journal Entry 36: Revisiting what you want and how you intend to get it "...use the following suggestions to continue..." Mastering Technology: Continue Your Education at Internet University Create your career now Exercise 32: Create your career plan--now Sample career plans Discover your employability skills Exercise 33: Assess your employability skills Jumpstart your education with transferable skills 65 transferable skills Exercise 34: Recognize your skills Build an irresistible resumé Fine-tune your cover letter Use job interviews to "hire" an employer Looking for jobs on the Internet Execise 35: Do something you can't Top 10 Tips to Help Ensure a Successful Job Search Surviving your first day on a new job Choosing schools...again
Contirbuting: The art of giving back or paying forward
Where to volunteer Exercise 36: List your strengths, skills, and competencies Service-learning: The art of learning by contirbuting Define your values, align your actions Exercise 37: The Discovery Wheel--coming full circle Journal Entry 37: Revisiting your Discovery Wheels Exercise 38: This book shouts, "Use me!" Exercise 39: Create your next semester or term Power Process: Be It Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Craig Kielburger
"A time-tested, student-centred guide, Becoming a Master Student helps students make the transition from high school to post-secondary education and teaches them how to make the most of their post-secondary career as they prepare for the workforce. It provides students with the tools to discover what type of learner they are, and how this can translate into success in their academic career and for their own personal goals." (Publisher's Website) Introduction: Making Transitions
Master Student Map
This book is worthless - if you just read it
Exercise 1: Textbook reconnaissance
Get the most out of this book
Exercise 2: Commitment
The Discovery and Intention Journal Entry system
Rewrite this book
Discovery and Intention Statement guidelines
Journal Entry 1: Recalling excellence
Making the transition to postsecondary education
Journal Entry 2: Plan for transition
Are you the typical student enrolled in postsecondary education in Canada?
Classroom civility--what's in it for you
Succeeding in higher education--at any age
Welcome to Canada!
Enrol your instructor in your education
Meeting with your instructor
Connect to school resources
Exercise 3: Resources
Extracurricular activities: Reap the benefits
Why going to college or university matters
Make the career connection
You don't need this course - but you might want it
Journal Entry 3: Choosing your purpose
The Power Processes: A User's Guide
Power Process: Discover What You Want
Quiz
1. First Steps
Master Student Map
First Step: Truth is a key to mastery
Journal Entry 4: Create Value from this chapter
Exercise 4: Taking the first step
Exercise 5: The Discovery Wheel
Journal Entry 5: Roll your Discovery Wheel
Mastering Technology: Supplement Your Text with Online Resources
Learning Styles: Discovering how you learn
Journal Entry 6: Prepare for the Learning Style Inventory
Directions for completing the Learning Style Inventory
Learning Style Inventory
Taking the next steps
Scoring your Inventory
Learning Style Graph
Interpreting your Learning Style Graph
Developing all four modes of learning
Balancing your learning preferences
Using your learning style profile to succeed
Use the modes to learn from any instructor
Connecting your mode of learning to Canadian employers' wish list
Claim your multiple intelligences
Exercise 6: Develop our multiple intelligences
Learning by seeing, hearing, and moving: The VAK system
The magic of metacognition
Motivation - I'm just not in the mood
What's stopping you from getting started on your schoolwork?
Attitudes, affirmations, and visualizations
Attitude replacements
Exercise 7: Reprogram your attitude
Master Student Profiles
Practising Critical Thinking 1
Power Process: Ideals Are Tools
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Joshua Miller
2. Time
Master Student Map
You've got the time
Journal Entry 7: Create value from this chapter
Exerice 8: The Time Monitor/Time Plan process
Setting and achieving goals
Journal Entry 8: Assess your use of time
Exercise 9: Seeing where all the time goes
Exercise 10: Create a lifeline
Exercise 11: Get real with your goals
The ABC daily to-do list
Make choices about Multitasking
Mastering Technology: Use Web-Based Tools to Save Time
More strategies for planning
Stop Procrastination NOW
The 7-day antiprocrastination plan
Practising Critical Thinking
16 ways to get the most out of now
Setting limits on screen time
Remember cultural differences
Planning for success: What students with learning disabilities need to know
Forget time management--just get things done
Exercise 12: Master monthly calendar
Gearing up: Using a long-term planner
Power Process: Be Here Now
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Chantal Petitclerc
3. Memory
Master Student Map
Take your memory out of the closet
Journal Entry 9: Create value from this chapter
The memory jungle
14 memory techniques
How to create a concept map
Practising Critical THinking
Student perspectives on learning online
Exercise 13: Use flash cards to reinforce memory
Set a trap for your memory
Keep your brain fit for life
Notable failures
Journal Entry 10: Revisit your memory skills
Remembering names
Mnemonic devices
Exercise 14: Get creative
Mastering Technology: Use Your Computer to Enhance Memory
Practising Critical Thinking 4
Exercise 15: Move from problems to solutions
Putting it all together
Power Process: Love Your Problems (and Experience Your Barriers)
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: David Suzuki
4. Reading
Master Studnet Map
Muscle Reading
Journal Entry 11: Discover what you want from this chapter
How Muscle Reading works
Phase 1: Before you read
Phase 2: While you read
Five smart ways to highlight a text
Phase 3: After you read
Muscle Reading--a leaner approach
Muscle Reading for e-books
Journal Entry 12: Experimenting with Muscle Reading
Word power--expanding your vocabulary
Exercise 16: Relax
When reading is tough
Developing information literacy
Exercise 17: Information literacy
Staying literate in the digital age
English as a second languge
Getting past roadblocks to reading
Practising Critical Thinking 5
Power Process: Notice Your Pictures and Let Them Go
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Eva Aariak
5. Notes
Master Student Map
The note-taking process flows
Journal Entry 13: Get what you want from this chapter
Observe: The note-taking process flows
Journal Entry 14: Create more value from lectures
What to do when you miss a class
Record: The note-taking process flows
Review: The note-taking process flows
Journal Entry 15: Reflect on your review habits
Turn Powerpoints into powerful notes
When your instructor talks fast
Exercise 18: Taking notes under pressure
Taking notes on your journey: The art of juornal writing
Taking notes while reading
Note this information about your sources
Online classes--taking notes and using other review tools
Mastering Technology: Your Mind, Online
Power Process: I Create It All
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Jaxson Khan
6. Tests
Master Student Map
Disarm tests
Journal Entry 16: Use this chapter to transform your experience of tests
What to do ebefore the test
Ways to predict tests questions
Cooperative learning: Studying in groups
Mastering Technology: Collaboration 2.0
Students Offering Support
What to do during the test
Words to watch out for in essay questions
The test isn't over until ...
The high costs of cheating
Perils of high-tech cheating
Let go of tests anxiety
Have some FUN!
Exercise 19: 20 things I like to do
Journal Entry 17: Notice your excuses and let them go
Journal Entry 18: Explore your feelings about tests
Geting ready for math tests
Succeeding in science courses
Studying across the curriculum
Exercise 20: Use learning styles for math success
Celebrate mistakes
F is for feedback, not failure
Practising Critical Thinking 6
Power Process: Detach
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Georges Laraque
7. Thinking
Master Student Map
Critical Thinking: A survival skill
Journal Entry 19: Choose to create value with this chapter
Becoming a Critical Thinking
Four more questions for critical thinking
Attitudes of a critical thinker
Finding "aha!": Creativity fuels critical thinking
Tangram
Ways to create ideas
Create ways for groups to get "unstuck"
Create on your feet
Exercise 21: Explore emotional reactions
Don't fool yourself: 15 common mistakes in logic
Uncovering assumptions
The problem of egocentric thinking
Gaining skill at decision making
Four ways to solve problems
"But I don't know what I want to do." Choosing your major
Exercise 22: Make a trial choice of major
Asking questions--Learning through inquiry
Practising Critical Thinking 7
Think critically about information on the Internet
Mastering Technology: Rethinking email
Exercise 23: Translating goals into action
Journal Entry 20: Reflect on choosing a major
Power Process: Find a Bigger Problem
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Wali "Flo" Shah
8. Communicating
Master Student Map
Communicating creates our world
Journal Entry 21: Commit to create value from this chapter
Communication--keeping the channels open
Exercise 24: Practise sending or receiving
Choosing to listen
Choosing to speak
Five ways to say "I"
Exercise 25: Write an "I" message
Journal Entry 22: Discover communication styles
Developing emotional intelligence
Mastering Technology: Setting Limits on Screen Time
Managin conflict
Journal Entry 23: Re-create a relationship
Resolve conflicts with roommates
Five ways to say no...gracefully
You deserve compliments
Exercise 26: VIPS (very important persons)
Five steps to effective complaints
Criticism really can be constructive
Collaborating for success
Mastering social networks
Mastering Technology: Master Students--Get Networked
Text message etiquette--Five key points
Three phases of effective writing
Tools for writing group projects
Journal Entry 24: Take a first step about writing
Academic integrity: Avoiding plagiarism
Mastering public speaking
Making the grade in group presentations
Honing your leadership skills
Practising Critical Thinking 8
Power Process: Employ Your Word
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Neil Pasricha
9. Diversity
Master Student Map
Waking up to diversity
Diversity in Canada
Jurnal Entry 25: Commit to create value from this chapter
Diversity is real--and valuable
Building relationships across cultures
High versus low context cultures
Exercise 27: Becoming a culture learner
Overcome stereotypes with critical thinking
Students with disabilities: Know your rights
Dealing with sexism and sexual harassment
Strategies for nonsexist communication
Cyberbullying
Leadership in a diverse world
Journal Entry 26: Removing barriers to communication
Journal Entry 27: Reflect on the quality of a recent conversation
Practising Critical Thinking 9
Power Process: Choose Your Conversations and Your Community
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Trey Anthony
10. Money
Master Student Map
The end of money worries
Journal Entry 28: Commit to a new experience of money
Exercise 28: The Money Monitor/Money Plan
No budgeting required
Journal Entry 29: Reflect on your Money Monitor/Money Plan
Make more money
Mastering Technology: Protect Your Money Online
Spend less money
Exercise 29: Show me the money
Managing money during tough times
Take charge of your credit
Exercise 30: Education by the hour
If you're in trouble...
Common credit terms
Money for the future
You can pay for school
Education is worth it
Your learning styles and your money
Practising Critical Thinking 10
Power Process: Risk Being a Fool
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skill Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Régine Chassagne & Edwin Farnham Butler
11. Health
Master Student Map
Wake up to health
Journal Entry 30: Take a first step about your health
Choose your fuel
Eating well with Canada's Food Guide
Prevent and treat eating disorders
Choose to exercise
Choose to rest
Ways to change a habit
Choose mental health
Is it just me who feels stressed out?
Observe Yourself
Journal Entry 31: Choose to be healhy
Choose to stay safe
Choose sexual health: Prevent infection
Choose sexual health: Protect against unwanted pregnancy
Men, consider your health
Journal Entry 32: Choose to break a habit
Journal Entry 33: Choose to be you
Developing self-efficacy
Emotional pain is not a sickness
Suicide is no solution
Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs: The truth
Some facts...
I wouldn't bet on it
Exercise 31: Addiction: How do i Know...?
From dependence to recovery
Binge Drinking
Warning: Avertising can be dangerous to your health
Journal Entry 34: Advertisements and your health
Journal Entry 35: Choose a new level of health
Practising Critical Thinking 11
Be smoke free
Power Process: Surrender
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Clara Hughes
12. What's Next?
Master Student Map
Now that you're done - begin
Journal Entry 36: Revisiting what you want and how you intend to get it
"...use the following suggestions to continue..."
Mastering Technology: Continue Your Education at Internet University
Create your career now
Exercise 32: Create your career plan--now
Sample career plans
Discover your employability skills
Exercise 33: Assess your employability skills
Jumpstart your education with transferable skills
65 transferable skills
Exercise 34: Recognize your skills
Build an irresistible resumé
Fine-tune your cover letter
Use job interviews to "hire" an employer
Looking for jobs on the Internet
Execise 35: Do something you can't
Top 10 Tips to Help Ensure a Successful Job Search
Surviving your first day on a new job
Choosing schools...again
Contirbuting: The art of giving back or paying forward
Where to volunteer
Exercise 36: List your strengths, skills, and competencies
Service-learning: The art of learning by contirbuting
Define your values, align your actions
Exercise 37: The Discovery Wheel--coming full circle
Journal Entry 37: Revisiting your Discovery Wheels
Exercise 38: This book shouts, "Use me!"
Exercise 39: Create your next semester or term
Power Process: Be It
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Craig Kielburger
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Becoming a Master Student (6th Canadian Edition) / David B. Ellis, Doug Toft and Debra Dawson. - 6th Canadian ed. - Toronto : Nelson Education Ltd. ; 2016. - xxi, 456 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
"Adapted from Becoming a Master Student, Fourteenth Edition, by Dave Ellis, Doug Toft, and Dean Mancina, published by Wadsworth Cenage Learning"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A time-tested, student-centred guide, Becoming a Master Student helps students make the transition from high school to post-secondary education and teaches them how to make the most of their post-secondary career as they prepare for the workforce. It provides students with the tools to discover what type of learner they are, and how this can translate into success in their academic career and for their own personal goals." (Publisher's Website)
CONTENTS: Introduction: Making Transitions Master Student Map This book is worthless - if you just read it Exercise 1: Textbook reconnaissance Get the most out of this book Exercise 2: Commitment The Discovery and Intention Journal Entry system Rewrite this book Discovery and Intention Statement guidelines Journal Entry 1: Recalling excellence
Making the transition to postsecondary education Journal Entry 2: Plan for transition Are you the typical student enrolled in postsecondary education in Canada?
Classroom civility--what's in it for you Succeeding in higher education--at any age Welcome to Canada!
Enrol your instructor in your education Meeting with your instructor Connect to school resources Exercise 3: Resources Extracurricular activities: Reap the benefits Why going to college or university matters Make the career connection You don't need this course - but you might want it Journal Entry 3: Choosing your purpose
The Power Processes: A User's Guide Power Process: Discover What You Want Quiz 1. First Steps Master Student Map First Step: Truth is a key to mastery Journal Entry 4: Create Value from this chapter Exercise 4: Taking the first step Exercise 5: The Discovery Wheel Journal Entry 5: Roll your Discovery Wheel Mastering Technology: Supplement Your Text with Online Resources Learning Styles: Discovering how you learn Journal Entry 6: Prepare for the Learning Style Inventory Directions for completing the Learning Style Inventory Learning Style Inventory Taking the next steps Scoring your Inventory Learning Style Graph Interpreting your Learning Style Graph Developing all four modes of learning Balancing your learning preferences Using your learning style profile to succeed Use the modes to learn from any instructor Connecting your mode of learning to Canadian employers' wish list Claim your multiple intelligences Exercise 6: Develop our multiple intelligences Learning by seeing, hearing, and moving: The VAK system
The magic of metacognition Motivation - I'm just not in the mood What's stopping you from getting started on your schoolwork?
Attitudes, affirmations, and visualizations Attitude replacements
Exercise 7: Reprogram your attitude
Master Student Profiles
Practising Critical Thinking 1 Power Process: Ideals Are Tools
Put It to Work
Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Joshua Miller 2. Time Master Student Map You've got the time Journal Entry 7: Create value from this chapter Exerice 8: The Time Monitor/Time Plan process Setting and achieving goals
Journal Entry 8: Assess your use of time
Exercise 9: Seeing where all the time goes Exercise 10: Create a lifeline Exercise 11: Get real with your goals The ABC daily to-do list Make choices about Multitasking Mastering Technology: Use Web-Based Tools to Save Time More strategies for planning Stop Procrastination NOW The 7-day antiprocrastination plan Practising Critical Thinking 16 ways to get the most out of now Setting limits on screen time Remember cultural differences Planning for success: What students with learning disabilities need to know Forget time management--just get things done Exercise 12: Master monthly calendar Gearing up: Using a long-term planner Power Process: Be Here Now Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Chantal Petitclerc 3. Memory Master Student Map Take your memory out of the closet Journal Entry 9: Create value from this chapter The memory jungle 14 memory techniques How to create a concept map Practising Critical THinking Student perspectives on learning online Exercise 13: Use flash cards to reinforce memory Set a trap for your memory Keep your brain fit for life Notable failures Journal Entry 10: Revisit your memory skills Remembering names Mnemonic devices Exercise 14: Get creative Mastering Technology: Use Your Computer to Enhance Memory
Practising Critical Thinking 4 Exercise 15: Move from problems to solutions
Putting it all together
Power Process: Love Your Problems (and Experience Your Barriers) Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: David Suzuki 4. Reading Master Student Map Muscle Reading Journal Entry 11: Discover what you want from this chapter How Muscle Reading works
Phase 1: Before you read
Phase 2: While you read
Five smart ways to highlight a text Phase 3: After you read Muscle Reading--a leaner approach Muscle Reading for e-books Journal Entry 12: Experimenting with Muscle Reading
Word power--expanding your vocabulary Exercise 16: Relax When reading is tough
Developing information literacy Exercise 17: Information literacy Staying literate in the digital age English as a second languge Getting past roadblocks to reading Practising Critical Thinking 5 Power Process: Notice Your Pictures and Let Them Go Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Eva Aariak 5. Notes Master Student Map The note-taking process flows Journal Entry 13: Get what you want from this chapter Observe: The note-taking process flows Journal Entry 14: Create more value from lectures What to do when you miss a class Record: The note-taking process flows Review: The note-taking process flows Journal Entry 15: Reflect on your review habits Turn Powerpoints into powerful notes When your instructor talks fast Exercise 18: Taking notes under pressure Taking notes on your journey: The art of juornal writing Taking notes while reading Note this information about your sources Online classes--taking notes and using other review tools Mastering Technology: Your Mind, Online Power Process: I Create It All Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Jaxson Khan 6. Tests
Master Student Map Disarm tests Journal Entry 16: Use this chapter to transform your experience of tests What to do ebefore the test Ways to predict tests questions Cooperative learning: Studying in groups Mastering Technology: Collaboration 2.0 Students Offering Support What to do during the test Words to watch out for in essay questions The test isn't over until ... The high costs of cheating Perils of high-tech cheating Let go of tests anxiety Have some FUN! Exercise 19: 20 things I like to do Journal Entry 17: Notice your excuses and let them go Journal Entry 18: Explore your feelings about tests
Geting ready for math tests
Succeeding in science courses Studying across the curriculum Exercise 20: Use learning styles for math success Celebrate mistakes F is for feedback, not failure Practising Critical Thinking 6 Power Process: Detach Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Georges Laraque 7. Thinking Master Student Map Critical Thinking: A survival skill Journal Entry 19: Choose to create value with this chapter Becoming a Critical Thinking
Four more questions for critical thinking Attitudes of a critical thinker
Finding "aha!": Creativity fuels critical thinking Tangram Ways to create ideas Create ways for groups to get "unstuck" Create on your feet Exercise 21: Explore emotional reactions Don't fool yourself: 15 common mistakes in logic Uncovering assumptions The problem of egocentric thinking Gaining skill at decision making
Four ways to solve problems
"But I don't know what I want to do." Choosing your major Exercise 22: Make a trial choice of major Asking questions--Learning through inquiry Practising Critical Thinking 7 Think critically about information on the Internet Mastering Technology: Rethinking email Exercise 23: Translating goals into action Journal Entry 20: Reflect on choosing a major Power Process: Find a Bigger Problem Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Wali "Flo" Shah 8. Communicating
Master Student Map Communicating creates our world
Journal Entry 21: Commit to create value from this chapter
Communication--keeping the channels open Exercise 24: Practise sending or receiving
Choosing to listen Choosing to speak Five ways to say "I" Exercise 25: Write an "I" message
Journal Entry 22: Discover communication styles
Developing emotional intelligence Mastering Technology: Setting Limits on Screen Time Managin conflict Journal Entry 23: Re-create a relationship Resolve conflicts with roommates Five ways to say no...gracefully You deserve compliments Exercise 26: VIPS (very important persons) Five steps to effective complaints
Criticism really can be constructive Collaborating for success Mastering social networks
Mastering Technology: Master Students--Get Networked Text message etiquette--Five key points
Three phases of effective writing Tools for writing group projects
Journal Entry 24: Take a first step about writing Academic integrity: Avoiding plagiarism Mastering public speaking Making the grade in group presentations Honing your leadership skills Practising Critical Thinking 8 Power Process: Employ Your Word Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Neil Pasricha 9. Diversity Master Student Map Waking up to diversity
Diversity in Canada Journal Entry 25: Commit to create value from this chapter Diversity is real--and valuable Building relationships across cultures High versus low context cultures Exercise 27: Becoming a culture learner Overcome stereotypes with critical thinking
Students with disabilities: Know your rights Dealing with sexism and sexual harassment Strategies for nonsexist communication
Cyberbullying Leadership in a diverse world Journal Entry 26: Removing barriers to communication Journal Entry 27: Reflect on the quality of a recent conversation Practising Critical Thinking 9 Power Process: Choose Your Conversations and Your Community Put It to Work Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Trey Anthony 10. Money
Master Student Map The end of money worries
Journal Entry 28: Commit to a new experience of money Exercise 28: The Money Monitor/Money Plan No budgeting required
Journal Entry 29: Reflect on your Money Monitor/Money Plan Make more money Mastering Technology: Protect Your Money Online Spend less money Exercise 29: Show me the money Managing money during tough times Take charge of your credit Exercise 30: Education by the hour If you're in trouble... Common credit terms Money for the future You can pay for school Education is worth it Your learning styles and your money Practising Critical Thinking 10 Power Process: Risk Being a Fool Put It to Work Quiz Skill Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Régine Chassagne & Edwin Farnham Butler 11. Health
Master Student Map Wake up to health Journal Entry 30: Take a first step about your health Choose your fuel Eating well with Canada's Food Guide Prevent and treat eating disorders Choose to exercise Choose to rest Ways to change a habit Choose mental health Is it just me who feels stressed out? Observe Yourself Journal Entry 31: Choose to be healhy Choose to stay safe Choose sexual health: Prevent infection Choose sexual health: Protect against unwanted pregnancy Men, consider your health Journal Entry 32: Choose to break a habit
Journal Entry 33: Choose to be you Developing self-efficacy Emotional pain is not a sickness Suicide is no solution Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs: The truth Some facts... I wouldn't bet on it Exercise 31: Addiction: How do i Know...? From dependence to recovery
Binge Drinking _Avertising can be dangerous to your health Journal Entry 34: Advertisements and your health Journal Entry 35: Choose a new level of health Practising Critical Thinking 11
Be smoke free Power Process: Surrender Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot Master Student Profile: Clara Hughes 12. What's Next? Master Student Map Now that you're done - begin Journal Entry 36: Revisiting what you want and how you intend to get it "...use the following suggestions to continue..." Mastering Technology: Continue Your Education at Internet University Create your career now Exercise 32: Create your career plan--now Sample career plans Discover your employability skills Exercise 33: Assess your employability skills Jumpstart your education with transferable skills 65 transferable skills Exercise 34: Recognize your skills Build an irresistible resumé Fine-tune your cover letter Use job interviews to "hire" an employer Looking for jobs on the Internet Execise 35: Do something you can't Top 10 Tips to Help Ensure a Successful Job Search Surviving your first day on a new job Choosing schools...again
Contirbuting: The art of giving back or paying forward
Where to volunteer Exercise 36: List your strengths, skills, and competencies Service-learning: The art of learning by contirbuting Define your values, align your actions Exercise 37: The Discovery Wheel--coming full circle Journal Entry 37: Revisiting your Discovery Wheels Exercise 38: This book shouts, "Use me!" Exercise 39: Create your next semester or term Power Process: Be It Put It to Work Quiz Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Craig Kielburger
"A time-tested, student-centred guide, Becoming a Master Student helps students make the transition from high school to post-secondary education and teaches them how to make the most of their post-secondary career as they prepare for the workforce. It provides students with the tools to discover what type of learner they are, and how this can translate into success in their academic career and for their own personal goals." (Publisher's Website) Introduction: Making Transitions
Master Student Map
This book is worthless - if you just read it
Exercise 1: Textbook reconnaissance
Get the most out of this book
Exercise 2: Commitment
The Discovery and Intention Journal Entry system
Rewrite this book
Discovery and Intention Statement guidelines
Journal Entry 1: Recalling excellence
Making the transition to postsecondary education
Journal Entry 2: Plan for transition
Are you the typical student enrolled in postsecondary education in Canada?
Classroom civility--what's in it for you
Succeeding in higher education--at any age
Welcome to Canada!
Enrol your instructor in your education
Meeting with your instructor
Connect to school resources
Exercise 3: Resources
Extracurricular activities: Reap the benefits
Why going to college or university matters
Make the career connection
You don't need this course - but you might want it
Journal Entry 3: Choosing your purpose
The Power Processes: A User's Guide
Power Process: Discover What You Want
Quiz
1. First Steps
Master Student Map
First Step: Truth is a key to mastery
Journal Entry 4: Create Value from this chapter
Exercise 4: Taking the first step
Exercise 5: The Discovery Wheel
Journal Entry 5: Roll your Discovery Wheel
Mastering Technology: Supplement Your Text with Online Resources
Learning Styles: Discovering how you learn
Journal Entry 6: Prepare for the Learning Style Inventory
Directions for completing the Learning Style Inventory
Learning Style Inventory
Taking the next steps
Scoring your Inventory
Learning Style Graph
Interpreting your Learning Style Graph
Developing all four modes of learning
Balancing your learning preferences
Using your learning style profile to succeed
Use the modes to learn from any instructor
Connecting your mode of learning to Canadian employers' wish list
Claim your multiple intelligences
Exercise 6: Develop our multiple intelligences
Learning by seeing, hearing, and moving: The VAK system
The magic of metacognition
Motivation - I'm just not in the mood
What's stopping you from getting started on your schoolwork?
Attitudes, affirmations, and visualizations
Attitude replacements
Exercise 7: Reprogram your attitude
Master Student Profiles
Practising Critical Thinking 1
Power Process: Ideals Are Tools
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Joshua Miller
2. Time
Master Student Map
You've got the time
Journal Entry 7: Create value from this chapter
Exerice 8: The Time Monitor/Time Plan process
Setting and achieving goals
Journal Entry 8: Assess your use of time
Exercise 9: Seeing where all the time goes
Exercise 10: Create a lifeline
Exercise 11: Get real with your goals
The ABC daily to-do list
Make choices about Multitasking
Mastering Technology: Use Web-Based Tools to Save Time
More strategies for planning
Stop Procrastination NOW
The 7-day antiprocrastination plan
Practising Critical Thinking
16 ways to get the most out of now
Setting limits on screen time
Remember cultural differences
Planning for success: What students with learning disabilities need to know
Forget time management--just get things done
Exercise 12: Master monthly calendar
Gearing up: Using a long-term planner
Power Process: Be Here Now
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Chantal Petitclerc
3. Memory
Master Student Map
Take your memory out of the closet
Journal Entry 9: Create value from this chapter
The memory jungle
14 memory techniques
How to create a concept map
Practising Critical THinking
Student perspectives on learning online
Exercise 13: Use flash cards to reinforce memory
Set a trap for your memory
Keep your brain fit for life
Notable failures
Journal Entry 10: Revisit your memory skills
Remembering names
Mnemonic devices
Exercise 14: Get creative
Mastering Technology: Use Your Computer to Enhance Memory
Practising Critical Thinking 4
Exercise 15: Move from problems to solutions
Putting it all together
Power Process: Love Your Problems (and Experience Your Barriers)
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: David Suzuki
4. Reading
Master Studnet Map
Muscle Reading
Journal Entry 11: Discover what you want from this chapter
How Muscle Reading works
Phase 1: Before you read
Phase 2: While you read
Five smart ways to highlight a text
Phase 3: After you read
Muscle Reading--a leaner approach
Muscle Reading for e-books
Journal Entry 12: Experimenting with Muscle Reading
Word power--expanding your vocabulary
Exercise 16: Relax
When reading is tough
Developing information literacy
Exercise 17: Information literacy
Staying literate in the digital age
English as a second languge
Getting past roadblocks to reading
Practising Critical Thinking 5
Power Process: Notice Your Pictures and Let Them Go
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Eva Aariak
5. Notes
Master Student Map
The note-taking process flows
Journal Entry 13: Get what you want from this chapter
Observe: The note-taking process flows
Journal Entry 14: Create more value from lectures
What to do when you miss a class
Record: The note-taking process flows
Review: The note-taking process flows
Journal Entry 15: Reflect on your review habits
Turn Powerpoints into powerful notes
When your instructor talks fast
Exercise 18: Taking notes under pressure
Taking notes on your journey: The art of juornal writing
Taking notes while reading
Note this information about your sources
Online classes--taking notes and using other review tools
Mastering Technology: Your Mind, Online
Power Process: I Create It All
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Jaxson Khan
6. Tests
Master Student Map
Disarm tests
Journal Entry 16: Use this chapter to transform your experience of tests
What to do ebefore the test
Ways to predict tests questions
Cooperative learning: Studying in groups
Mastering Technology: Collaboration 2.0
Students Offering Support
What to do during the test
Words to watch out for in essay questions
The test isn't over until ...
The high costs of cheating
Perils of high-tech cheating
Let go of tests anxiety
Have some FUN!
Exercise 19: 20 things I like to do
Journal Entry 17: Notice your excuses and let them go
Journal Entry 18: Explore your feelings about tests
Geting ready for math tests
Succeeding in science courses
Studying across the curriculum
Exercise 20: Use learning styles for math success
Celebrate mistakes
F is for feedback, not failure
Practising Critical Thinking 6
Power Process: Detach
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Georges Laraque
7. Thinking
Master Student Map
Critical Thinking: A survival skill
Journal Entry 19: Choose to create value with this chapter
Becoming a Critical Thinking
Four more questions for critical thinking
Attitudes of a critical thinker
Finding "aha!": Creativity fuels critical thinking
Tangram
Ways to create ideas
Create ways for groups to get "unstuck"
Create on your feet
Exercise 21: Explore emotional reactions
Don't fool yourself: 15 common mistakes in logic
Uncovering assumptions
The problem of egocentric thinking
Gaining skill at decision making
Four ways to solve problems
"But I don't know what I want to do." Choosing your major
Exercise 22: Make a trial choice of major
Asking questions--Learning through inquiry
Practising Critical Thinking 7
Think critically about information on the Internet
Mastering Technology: Rethinking email
Exercise 23: Translating goals into action
Journal Entry 20: Reflect on choosing a major
Power Process: Find a Bigger Problem
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Wali "Flo" Shah
8. Communicating
Master Student Map
Communicating creates our world
Journal Entry 21: Commit to create value from this chapter
Communication--keeping the channels open
Exercise 24: Practise sending or receiving
Choosing to listen
Choosing to speak
Five ways to say "I"
Exercise 25: Write an "I" message
Journal Entry 22: Discover communication styles
Developing emotional intelligence
Mastering Technology: Setting Limits on Screen Time
Managin conflict
Journal Entry 23: Re-create a relationship
Resolve conflicts with roommates
Five ways to say no...gracefully
You deserve compliments
Exercise 26: VIPS (very important persons)
Five steps to effective complaints
Criticism really can be constructive
Collaborating for success
Mastering social networks
Mastering Technology: Master Students--Get Networked
Text message etiquette--Five key points
Three phases of effective writing
Tools for writing group projects
Journal Entry 24: Take a first step about writing
Academic integrity: Avoiding plagiarism
Mastering public speaking
Making the grade in group presentations
Honing your leadership skills
Practising Critical Thinking 8
Power Process: Employ Your Word
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Neil Pasricha
9. Diversity
Master Student Map
Waking up to diversity
Diversity in Canada
Jurnal Entry 25: Commit to create value from this chapter
Diversity is real--and valuable
Building relationships across cultures
High versus low context cultures
Exercise 27: Becoming a culture learner
Overcome stereotypes with critical thinking
Students with disabilities: Know your rights
Dealing with sexism and sexual harassment
Strategies for nonsexist communication
Cyberbullying
Leadership in a diverse world
Journal Entry 26: Removing barriers to communication
Journal Entry 27: Reflect on the quality of a recent conversation
Practising Critical Thinking 9
Power Process: Choose Your Conversations and Your Community
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Trey Anthony
10. Money
Master Student Map
The end of money worries
Journal Entry 28: Commit to a new experience of money
Exercise 28: The Money Monitor/Money Plan
No budgeting required
Journal Entry 29: Reflect on your Money Monitor/Money Plan
Make more money
Mastering Technology: Protect Your Money Online
Spend less money
Exercise 29: Show me the money
Managing money during tough times
Take charge of your credit
Exercise 30: Education by the hour
If you're in trouble...
Common credit terms
Money for the future
You can pay for school
Education is worth it
Your learning styles and your money
Practising Critical Thinking 10
Power Process: Risk Being a Fool
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skill Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Régine Chassagne & Edwin Farnham Butler
11. Health
Master Student Map
Wake up to health
Journal Entry 30: Take a first step about your health
Choose your fuel
Eating well with Canada's Food Guide
Prevent and treat eating disorders
Choose to exercise
Choose to rest
Ways to change a habit
Choose mental health
Is it just me who feels stressed out?
Observe Yourself
Journal Entry 31: Choose to be healhy
Choose to stay safe
Choose sexual health: Prevent infection
Choose sexual health: Protect against unwanted pregnancy
Men, consider your health
Journal Entry 32: Choose to break a habit
Journal Entry 33: Choose to be you
Developing self-efficacy
Emotional pain is not a sickness
Suicide is no solution
Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs: The truth
Some facts...
I wouldn't bet on it
Exercise 31: Addiction: How do i Know...?
From dependence to recovery
Binge Drinking
Warning: Avertising can be dangerous to your health
Journal Entry 34: Advertisements and your health
Journal Entry 35: Choose a new level of health
Practising Critical Thinking 11
Be smoke free
Power Process: Surrender
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Clara Hughes
12. What's Next?
Master Student Map
Now that you're done - begin
Journal Entry 36: Revisiting what you want and how you intend to get it
"...use the following suggestions to continue..."
Mastering Technology: Continue Your Education at Internet University
Create your career now
Exercise 32: Create your career plan--now
Sample career plans
Discover your employability skills
Exercise 33: Assess your employability skills
Jumpstart your education with transferable skills
65 transferable skills
Exercise 34: Recognize your skills
Build an irresistible resumé
Fine-tune your cover letter
Use job interviews to "hire" an employer
Looking for jobs on the Internet
Execise 35: Do something you can't
Top 10 Tips to Help Ensure a Successful Job Search
Surviving your first day on a new job
Choosing schools...again
Contirbuting: The art of giving back or paying forward
Where to volunteer
Exercise 36: List your strengths, skills, and competencies
Service-learning: The art of learning by contirbuting
Define your values, align your actions
Exercise 37: The Discovery Wheel--coming full circle
Journal Entry 37: Revisiting your Discovery Wheels
Exercise 38: This book shouts, "Use me!"
Exercise 39: Create your next semester or term
Power Process: Be It
Put It to Work
Quiz
Skills Snapshot
Master Student Profile: Craig Kielburger
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