TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR COLLEGE CAREER

TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR COLLEGE CAREER

        Do you know…

• What is expected of you in college? 
• How you can take charge of your college career? 
• What are the early warning signs of academic difficulty? 
• How to take an active approach to learning? 
• Why critical thinking is key to college success? 
• What plagiarism is and how you can avoid it?

        Coping with New Expectations

• College is a unique learning experience:

           1. Different from high school
           2. Different from work

• New demands and expectations

Set Your Own Operating Rules

• Lack of structure in college compared to high school can be confusing 
• Decide early how you will spend your time:      

            1. Limit class absences 

            2. Set specific study times                                  

            3. Set a routine for study, including review
            4. Complete even optional assignments                

            5. Read assigned chapters before class

     Take Responsibility for Learning

• Class time is limited 
• Read textbook on your own 
• Be prepared to discuss in class 
• Review and practice class work outside of class

Develop New Approaches to Learning

• Focus on important concepts 
• Focus on ideas, not right answers 
• Evaluate new ideas

Taking Charge of  Your College Career

• Make plans and decisions to be successful 
• Be an active learner, not passive

Accept Responsibility for Good Grades

• Grades are earned, not given 
• Evaluate what you did to earn a good grade 
• Decide what you need to change to do better

Don’t Make Excuses

• Learning is hard work 
• Avoiding studying makes it harder in the long run:

- Plan ahead

- Commit to your work

- Find solutions, not excuses

Develop Essential, Marketable Skills

• Don’t limit yourself to your strengths 
• Develop essential skills in weaker areas:

- Math

- Computer Literacy

- Public Speaking

- Creative and Critical Thinking Skills

Predicting Academic Difficulty

• Your responsibility to determine how well you are doing 
• Grades aren’t always enough
• Are you falling behind on assignments? 
• Have you missed several classes recently? 
• Do you feel lost or confused in any course?
• Are you relying heavily on a friend for help in completing assignments? 
• Do you feel restless and listless, as if something is wrong but you’re not sure what it is? 
• Do you feel constantly tired or spend a lot of time sleeping?

How to Handle Academic Problems

• Maintain your self-confidence. 
• Remember that you are not alone. 
• Take immediate action. 
• Talk with your instructor. 
• Explore sources of help. 
• Consider withdrawing from the course.

Why Become an Active Learner?

• Active Learning is key to academic and career success 
• Learn best through active participation:

- Studying

-Thinking

- Taking notes

- Asking questions

- Studying with a friend

Become a More Active Learner

• Ask questions about what you are reading
• Discover the purpose behind assignments 
• Try to see how each assignment fits with the rest of the course 
• Relate what you are learning to what you already know

Critical Thinking

• Characteristics of a critical thinker:

- Constantly asks questions

- Keeps an open mind

- Recognizes other viewpoints

- Approaches issues systematically

- Uses writing to explore ideas

Levels of Thinking

• Test yourself at each level of thinking:

- Remembering: Recall information with no change

- Understanding: Use rules and follow directions

- Applying: Apply knowledge to new situations

- Analyzing: Break information into parts to see relationships

- Evaluating: Make judgments or assess value

- Creating: Create something new in a unique way

BUILDING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

## Avoiding Cheating##

• Not following academic rules:

- Copying or using notes during tests

- Sharing someone else’s homework

- Making up results for a lab report

- Submitting the same work twice without permission

## What Constitutes Plagiarism ##

• Submitting someone else’s work as your own without crediting them

- Exact words

- Theories, opinions, ideas

- Paraphrasing Data, charts, and graphs

Avoiding Plagiarism

• Place anything you copy directly into your notes in quotes 
• Separate your ideas from others 
• Keep track of sources 
• Give credit even when paraphrasing 
• Cite all information and ideas that are not your own

Avoiding Cyber-plagiarism

• “Cut and paste” plagiarism 
• Information taken directly from the Internet 
• Cite information, including the URL and the date you accessed it 
• Use quotations and citations for anything you cut and paste

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