College Culture, Student Success by Debra J. Anderson helps students develop reading, writing, and thinking skills as well as become familiar with the common customs, underlying assumptions, and strategies for success associated with being a college student. College Culture, Student Success offers a wealth of features: Timely issues that resonate with today's students are explored, including distance learning, bilingualism, social networking, writing for the Web, learning disabilities, single parenting, and plagiarism. Professional and student writers bring a wide range of perspectives that particularly speak to the experiences of non-traditional students. Pre-reading questions help students practice the skills of previewing and predicting by asking students to search their own backgrounds for what they already know about a topic and by encouraging students to consider how specific writing techniques are employed. Questions for Writing and Discussion after each reading provide an opportunity for students to think critically about what they have read and how it relates to them as college students while also investigating and practicing the different rhetorical modes. Making Connections questions at the end of each chapter invite students to compare and contrast rhetorical approaches and points of view so that they wrestle with diverse ideas and strategies as they practice analytical skills. An Exploring the Web section at the end of each chapter offers online resources, including information about scholarships, time management, and study skills. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Preface for Instructors	xv
Preface for Students	xxi
Chapter 1 I Wasn't Brought Up That Way: Where Home Culture Meets College Culture	1
Overview	1
And Then I Went to School	2
Mother Tongue	8
Bricklayer's Boy	15
The Meaning of Work	22
Abandoned but Not Alone	25
Let the Colors Run	28
Making Connections	35
Exploring the Web	36
Chapter 2 A Day in the Life: Opportunities and Challenges In and Out of the Classroom	39
Overview	39
Focusing on Friends	40
Could Your Facebook Profile Throw a Wrench in Your Future?	44
Drinking Deaths Draw Attention to Old Campus Problem	49
We're Lying: Safe Sex and White Lies in the Time of AIDS	52
Universities Seeing a Gender Gap in Enrollments	58
Earning and Learning: Are Students Working Too Much?	61
Making Connections	65
Exploring the Web	66
Chapter 3 Who's in Charge Here?: Exploring Self-Awareness and Personal Responsibility	68
Overview	68
ADHD: The Cloud Lifted	69
Log On to Learn	72
Sticky Fingers on the Information Superhighway	78
Good and Bad Procrastination	86
From Single Mother to Successful Student	91
Saved	96
Making Connections	99
Exploring the Web	100
Chapter 4 Learning and Unlearning: Reinventing Yourself as a Learner	102
Overview	102
Multiple Intelligences	103
How to Say Nothing in 500 Words	117
I Just Wanna Be Average	130
Upsilamba!	144
Symptoms of Math Anxiety	149
Take This Quiz! (Twenty Reasons You Could Be Working Harder and Longer Than You Have to, Yet Learning Less and Receiving Lower Grades)	153
Making Connections	162
Exploring the Web	163
Chapter 5 Becoming an Educated Person: Intellectual Curiosity, Integrity, and Critical Thinking in College and Beyond	165
Overview	165
General Education and a College Degree	166
The Nontraditional Student in You	169
Vamos a Leer!	174
A False Wikipedia "Biography"	176
Ambition	180
What Is the Quarterlife Crisis?	184
Making Connections	190
Exploring the Web	191
Credits	193

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