"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