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Becoming a
Master
student
16e
dave ellis
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doug toft
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Brief
23
Contents
1 Introduction
The Master Student
23 Chapter 1
Discovering Yourself
59 Chapter 2
Time
111 Chapter 3
Memory
137 Chapter 4
Reading
169 Chapter 5
Notes
201 Chapter 6
Tests
231 Chapter 7
Thinking
52 271 Chapter 8
Communicating
321 Chapter 9
Money
355 Chapter 10
Next Steps
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CCoonntteennttss
xi
Preface
1
Introduction:
chapter
The Master Student Discovering Yourself
2 24
Power Process: Discover what you want Power Process: Ideas are tools
3 25
Rewrite this book First Step: Truth is a key to mastery
3 27
Practicing Critical Thinking 1: Practicing Critical Thinking 4: Taking
Textbook reconnaissance the First Step
4 28
Master student qualities The Discovery Wheel
7 32
Practicing Critical Thinking 2: The Skills Snapshot: Discovery wheel
master student in you 33
Learning styles: Discovering how
8
The master student process: Discovery you learn
9 34
The master student process: Intention Journal Entry 3: Prepare for the
Learning Style Inventory (LSI)
10
Be on the lookout
35
Directions for completing the learning
11
The master student process: Action
style inventory
12
Keep the process alive 36
Learning Style Inventory
12
The secret of student success 37
Scoring Your Inventory
13
Get the most from this book 38
Learning Style Graph
14
Here’s the sales pitch 39
Interpreting Your Learning Style Graph
15
Motivation: I’m just not in the mood 40
Developing All Four Modes of Learning
17
Ways to change a habit 41
Balancing Your Preferences
19
Journal Entry 1: Declare what you want 42
Using your learning style profile
20 to succeed
Do you have a minute?
47
21 Journal Entry 4: Choosing your purpose
Practicing Critical Thinking 3: Plan to
change a habit 48
Claim your multiple intelligences
22 Journal Entry 2: Commitment 49 Practicing Critical Thinking 5: Develop
your multiple intelligences
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Learning through your senses: The Practicing Critical Thinking 10: Master
VARK system monthly calendar
55 88
Journal Entry 5: Get back to the big Break it down, get it done—using a
picture about learning styles long-term planner
55 91
Master Student Profiles Create a work flow that works
56 92
Master Student Profile: Joshua Williams There’s an app for that—using
57 technology for time management
Quiz Chapter 1
93
58 Stop procrastination now
Skills Snapshot Chapter 1
95
The 7-step antiprocrastination plan
2 96
25 ways to get the most out of now
chapter
99
Setting limits on screen time
Time
101
Making time for health
104
Practicing Critical Thinking 11: Taking
60
Power Process: Be here now a First Step about health
61 106
You’ve got the time Beyond time management: Stay focused
on what matters
62
Make choices about multitasking
107
Journal Entry 7: Create a not-to-do list
63
Practicing Critical Thinking 6: The
108
Time Monitor/Time Plan Master Student Profile: Ramit Sethi
109
68 Quiz Chapter 2
Journal Entry 6: Discover the impact of
technology on your time and attention 110
Skills Snapshot Chapter 2
69
Define your values
3
70
Setting and achieving goals chapter
71
Practicing Critical Thinking 7: Create a Memory
lifeline
73
Practicing Critical Thinking 8: Get real
112
with your goals Power Process: Love your problems
113
74 Your memory and your brain—6 key
The ABC daily to-do list
principles
76
Practicing Critical Thinking 9: Create
115
Journal Entry 8: Reflect on the care and
your to-do list
feeding of your brain
78
Planning sets you free
116
The memory jungle
80
Making the transition to higher education
118
25 memory techniques
82
Avoid high-tech time wasters
125
Practicing Critical Thinking 12: Use
83
Making time for school as an adult learner Q-cards to reinforce memory
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Set a trap for your memory Extending Muscle Reading to web
126 pages and ebooks
Practicing Critical Thinking 13:
146
Remembering your car keys—or Journal Entry 10: Experiment with
anything else Muscle Reading
127 147
Mnemonic devices Muscle Reading at work
129 148
Making connections in memory-friendly Journal Entry 11: Reflect on your online
ways reading habits
130 149
Retool your memory When reading is tough
131 151
Practicing Critical Thinking 14: Get Getting past roadblocks to reading
creative 153
Get SPUNKI with your reading
131
Journal Entry 9: Revisit your memory 154
Practicing Critical Thinking 16: Plan
skills
to complete your reading assignments
132
Remembering names 155
Beyond speed reading: Becoming a
133
Practicing Critical Thinking 15: Move flexible reader
from problems to solutions 156
Word power—expanding your vocabulary
134
Master Student Profile: Maria Popova 158
Checklist: Review these common word parts
135
Quiz Chapter 3 159
Mastering the English language
136
Skills Snapshot Chapter 3 161
Developing information literacy
4 166
Master Student Profile: Matias Manzano
chapter
167
Quiz Chapter 4
Reading 168
Skills Snapshot Chapter 4
5
138
Power Process: Notice your pictures and chapter
let them go
Notes
139
Muscle Reading
140
How Muscle Reading works
170
141 Power Process: I create it all
Phase 1: Before you read
171
142 The note-taking process flows
Phase 2: While you read
172
143 Observe: The note-taking process flows
Five smart ways to highlight a text
173
144 What to do when you miss a class
Phase 3: After you read
175
145 Journal Entry 12: Create more value
Muscle Reading: A leaner approach
from lectures
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Record: The note-taking process flows Cooperative learning: Studying in groups
181 211
Review: The note-taking process flows What to do during the test
182 212
Practicing Critical Thinking 17: Reflect Words to watch for in essay questions
on your review habits 215
The high costs of cheating
184
Turn PowerPoints into powerful notes 215
Perils of high-tech cheating
185
When your instructor talks quickly 216
Let go of test anxiety
186
Practicing Critical Thinking 18: Taking 217
Have some FUN!
notes under pressure
218
187 Getting ready for math tests
Taking notes while reading
222
188 Practicing Critical Thinking 19: Use
Note this information about your sources
learning styles for math success
190
Visualize ideas with concept maps 222
Studying across the curriculum
192
Taking effective notes for online 224
The test isn’t over until . . .
coursework
225
195 F is for Feedback
Taking notes during meetings
226
196 Celebrate mistakes
Note taking 2.0
227
198 Notable failures
Master Student Profile: Teresa Amabile
227
199 Practicing Critical Thinking 20:
Quiz Chapter 5
20 things I like to do
200
Skills Snapshot Chapter 5 228
Master Student Profile: Lalita Booth
6 229
Quiz Chapter 6
chapter
230
Skills Snapshot Chapter 6
Tests
7
chapter
202
Power Process: Detach
Thinking
203
Think beyond the grade
204
What to do before the test 232
Power Process: Embrace the new
205
How to cram (even though you “shouldn’t”) 233
Critical thinking: A survival skill
206
Journal Entry 13: Explore your feelings 235
Six kinds of thinking
about tests
238
207 A process for critical thinking
Ways to predict test questions
241
208 Practicing Critical Thinking 21:
Journal Entry 14: Notice your excuses
Critical thinking scenarios
and let them go
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243
Finding “aha!”: Creativity fuels critical
chapter
thinking
243 Communicating
Tangram
244
Journal Entry 15: Use divergent
thinking to brainstorm goals 272 Power Process: Employ your word
245 Ways to create ideas 273 Communication: Keeping the channels
246 open
Journal Entry 16: Use convergent
thinking to plan habits 273 Practicing Critical Thinking 24:
247 Practice sending or receiving
Create on your feet
274
249 Choosing to listen
Practicing Critical Thinking 22:
Explore emotional reactions 277 Five ways to say “I”
250 Attitudes, affirmations, and 278 Choosing to speak
visualizations
280
Practicing Critical Thinking 25: Write
251
Practicing Critical Thinking 23: an “I” message
Reprogram your attitude
281
Journal Entry 17: Discover
251
Simple attitude replacements communication styles
252 Don’t fool yourself: 15 common 282 Developing emotional intelligence
mistakes in logic
283
Communicating in teams: Getting
254
Cognitive biases: More ways we fool things done as a group
ourselves
285
Using technology to collaborate
256
Think critically about information on
287
Managing conflict
the Internet
289
257 Journal Entry 18: Recreate a relationship
Gaining skill at decision making
290
258 Five ways to say no . . . respectfully
Four ways to solve problems
291
260 Practicing Critical Thinking 26: VIPs
Asking questions: Learning through
(very important persons)
inquiry
292
261 Five steps to effective complaints
15 questions to try on for size
292
263 Criticism is constructive
Thinking about your major
293
265 Communicating with instructors
Service-learning: Turn thinking into
contribution 294 Communicating respect for your instructors
268 Master Student Profile: Irshad Manji 295 Diversity is real—and valuable
269 Quiz Chapter 7 297 Communicating across cultures
270 Skills Snapshot Chapter 7 299 Students with disabilities: Ask for what
you want
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You deserve compliments Practicing Critical Thinking 29: Show
301 me the money
Practicing Critical Thinking 27:
336
Becoming a culture learner Managing money during tough times
302 338
Communicating as a first-generation Take charge of your credit
student 340
Common credit terms
303
Staying safe on social networks 342
Journal Entry 21: Create a new
306
Three phases of effective writing experience of money
307 342
Writing for online readers If you get into trouble . . .
308 343
Befriend your word processor Education pays off—and you can pay
311 for it
Academic integrity: Avoid plagiarism
344
313 Practicing Critical Thinking 30:
Mastering public speaking
Education by the hour
317
Making the grade in group presentations 345
Money for the future
318
Master Student Profile: Chimamanda 346
Practicing Critical Thinking 31: Plan
Adichie
to pay for your degree
319
Quiz Chapter 8 349
Use tools to tame your money
320
Skills Snapshot Chapter 8 351
Your money and your values
9 352
Master Student Profile: Leo Babauta
chapter
353
Quiz Chapter 9
Money 354
Skills Snapshot Chapter 9
10
322
Power Process: Risk being a fool chapter
323
The end of money worries
Next Steps
324
Practicing Critical Thinking 28: The
Money Monitor/Money Plan
356
325 Power Process: Persist
Journal Entry 19: Reflect on your
357
experience of money Jump-start your education with
329 transferable skills
Make more money
359
330 Practicing Critical Thinking 32:
Journal Entry 20: Reflect on your
Recognize your skills
Money Monitor/Money Plan
360
332 65 transferrable skills
No budgeting required
363
333 Practicing Critical Thinking 33: Plan
Spend less money
to develop a new skill
334
Free fun 364
Taking the road to graduation
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