| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780132235570 | | Publisher: Prentice Hall | | Publish Date: 3/28/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204174082 | | Item#: RWN3XM | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 104905 | | Pages: 276 | | Edition Number: 5 |
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| | | Finally, a textbook that actually uses reading and critical thinking strategies rather than just talking about them. This new, compelling fifth edition of "Cornerstone: Discovering Your Potential, Learning Actively and Living Well Concise"reflects a deeper focus on self-responsibility and active learning. It effectively utilizes SQ3R throughout, underscoring its importance to student success. Also new to this edition is the implementation of Bloom's Taxonomy through a feature titled "Knowledge in Bloom." This chapter-end activity helps students apply the information from each chapter by prompting them to reflect and respond to questions from each level of Bloom's. A new chapter on money and debt management and a totally revised and updated chapter on self-engagement, change and goal setting meets students where they are and highlights the relationships between realistic goals and ushering positive change into one's life. Exciting Additional Revisions include: - The BIG WHY!! (Author Perspective) and The BIG WHY (Student Perspective) - offers advice from the authors AND former students as to "WHY" the chapter is important to the student's success, knowledge, college survival, and overall well-being.
- From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Real Stories of Personal Triumph - individual, brief biographies of ordinary Americans who faced and overcame huge obstacles and adversity going on to reach goals and dreams.
- Where are You.... AT THIS MOMENT? - popular feature's scoring and interpretation has been significantly revised and simplified.
- The extraordinary supplemental resource package has been expanded to better fit faculty and student needs!" "
Additional Support -- in and out of the classroom... "Cornerstone" has its own companion website designed to help students review the text material. This site (www.prenhall.com/sherfield) can also be accessed through the Student Success Supersite (www.prenhall.com/success), where students and faculty will find an array of resources.
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