Foundations A Reader for New College Students (with InfoTrac),9780534621674

Foundations A Reader for New College Students (with InfoTrac)

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780534621674
ISBN10: 0534621678
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-05-06
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Focusing on the issues most relevant to the understanding of succeeding in college, this reader includes several essays and articles on each topic, giving students the chance to consider a number of different perspectives. Gordon and Minnick include personal essays, research-based articles, and other insightful ways of looking at the total college experience. Questions and journal activities accompany the readings to encourage class discussion and personal reflection.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
How to Keep a Journal xvi
UNIT 1 The Value of a College Education: Why Am I in College?
1(26)
The Lure of Learning
3(4)
William J. Bennett
A New Debate Is Joined over an Old Question: Is College an Investment or an End in Itself?
7(4)
James Cicarelli
An Uncluttered Perspective: The True, the Beautiful, and the Good
11(5)
Howard Gardner
The Rise of the American University
16(11)
Frank H. T. Rhodes
Unit Summary
25(2)
UNIT 2 What Can I Expect from College and How Will I Change?
27(28)
The Developing College Student
29(6)
Virginia N. Gordon
Freshmen Can Be Taught to Think Creatively, Not Just Amass Information
35(4)
David C. Finster
Trouble with Parents
39(5)
Inge Bell
Loneliness
44(3)
Barbara M. Newman
Phillip R. Newman
Tips on Becoming Personally Effective
47(8)
Susan Jones Sears
Unit Summary
53(2)
UNIT 3 How Can I Succeed Academically?
55(42)
Major Decisions
57(8)
James Tunstead Burtchaell
College Major Doesn't Mean All That Much
65(3)
William Raspberry
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Electives
68(7)
Thomas L. Minnick
The Right Stuff: Research Strategies for the Internet Age
75(7)
Nancy O'Hanlon
Please! It's Only Seven Minutes Late, Professor
82(4)
Joel J. Gold
Why I Don't Let Students Cut My Classes
86(4)
William R. Brown
Passive Versus Active Studying
90(7)
Jason Rich
Unit Summary
95(2)
UNIT 4 How Should I Expect to Learn?
97(36)
Understanding Who Is Smart
99(7)
Jennifer James
Learning Styles: They Can Help or Hinder
106(7)
Al Siebert
Bernadine Gilpin
Service Learning: Education Through Experience
113(5)
Keith F. Luscher
Distance Learning
118(5)
Michael P. Governati
George Steele
Kate M. Carey
Distance Education
123(3)
Michael L. Dertouzos
Are We Going to Get Smarter?
126(7)
Roger C. Schank
Unit Summary
132(1)
UNIT 5 What About Technology?
133(32)
The Challenge of Technology
135(4)
A. W. Bates
Gary Poole
Virtual Legality: An Overview of Your Rights and Responsibilities in Cyberspace
139(7)
Steven J. McDonald
The Connected Library
146(6)
Clifford Stoll
Technology Eliminating Conversation
152(3)
Ellen Goodman
Human-Centric Issues in the Information Marketplace
155(10)
Michael L. Dertouzos
Unit Summary
163(2)
UNIT 6 What Are My Rights and Responsibilities as a Student?
165(20)
On Academic Freedom
167(5)
William H. Halverson
James R. Carter
The New Immorality
172(3)
Joseph Wood Krutch
Ideas as Property
175(5)
Thomas L. Minnick
Please Stop This Talk About Values
180(5)
George F. Will
Unit Summary
183(2)
UNIT 7 What Is Diversity and Why Is It Important to Me?
185(48)
Learning from Differences
188(10)
Richard J. Light
How Discrimination Works and Why It Matters: Five Personal Statements
198(23)
Getting to Know About You and Me
198(3)
Chana Schoenberger
What Could I Know of Racism?
201(6)
Joy E. Weeber
The Face of Racism
207(4)
Edward A. Delgado-Romero
Personal Narrative of an Asian American's Experience with Racism
211(4)
Donna M. Talbot
Pain and Perseverance: Perspectives from an Ally
215(6)
Lisa J. Brandyberry
I Have a Dream
221(5)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Affirmative Action and Multiculturalism
226(7)
David Bruce Ingram
Jennifer A. Parks
Unit Summary
231(2)
UNIT 8 What Should I Know About Careers?
233(30)
Doing the Work You Love
235(4)
Laurence G. Boldt
How to Get There from Here
239(5)
Nicholas Lore
Job Search: Chance or Plan?
244(7)
Mark R. Ballard
Postgraduate Paralysis
251(3)
Mary Sherry
Career Patterns for the 21st Century
254(9)
Peggy Simonsen
Unit Summary
262(1)
UNIT 9 Life After College: Future Success or Future Shock?
263(21)
Having a Degree and Being Educated
265(5)
Edmund D. Pellegrino
A Time of Discontinuity
270(5)
Arthur Levine
Jeanette S. Cureton
The Next Great Generation
275(5)
Neil Howe
William Strauss
To the Graduates
280(4)
Christopher Reeve
Unit Summary
283(1)
Author Index 284(3)
Subject Index 287

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