Keys to Success: How to Achieve Your Goals--Annotated Instructor's Edition

by Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, Sarah Lyman Kravits

Learn-by-doing in approach and exceptionally broad-based in perspective, this best-selling guide to success in college, work, and life is based on the premise that if readers know themselves and can think critically about any topic or situation, they will succeed in whatever they do. Includes straight talk and a variety of activities for thinking, teamwork, career and goal planning, writing, using the Internet, etc. Content focuses on issues that touch the lives of all kinds of diverse students/readers—from urban community college students to returning adults to working students to students of any age, race, gender, family and marital status, economic situation, or other unique identification. Features inspiring and motivating Personal Triumph scenarios involving famous and ordinary people from here and abroad. Quick Start to A Guide to Knowing What to Do, How to Do It, and Where to Get Help. Welcome to Opening Doors. Knowing How You Learn and How to Choose a Major. Goal Setting and Time Using Values to Map Your Course. Critical and Creative Becoming an Active Learner. Reading and Focusing on Content. Listening, Memory, and Note Taking In, Retaining, and Recording Information. Researching and Gathering and Communicating Ideas. Test Showing What You Know. Relating to Living in a Diverse World. Wellness and Stress Taking Care of Yourself. Managing Career and Reality Resources. Moving Building a Flexible Future. For college students and anyone wanting a primer on how to be successful in school, at work, or inlife.

432 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1997

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I should mention that this is a book written by the woman I work for. I did not read KEYS independently. :-)