1. Academic Success & Lifelong Learning Skills
Chapter 7, Thriving in College & Beyond
Academic Success & Lifelong Learning Skills

2. Research & Communication Skills
Information literacy: ability to search for, locate, and evaluate information for relevance and accuracy.
Empowers students to become self-reliant, lifelong learners.
Essential skill

3. 6 Steps Define your research topic Identify resources
Neither too narrow, nor too broad
Identify resources
Print
Online
Box 7.1 (pages )

4. Evaluate the credibility and quality of sources.
Documentation
Credibility
Scholarly
Currency
Objectivity

5. Sufficient quantity and variety of sources
Use sources as stepping stones

6. Cite sources with integrity
Cite anything that comes from a source
Exception: common knowledge
Citations are found in the body and the reference section.
MLA or APA style

7. Plagiarism
Intentional or unintentional use of someone else's work without a citation (acknowledgement).

8. Common forms:
Paying someone or a service for a paper.
Submitting an entire paper or a portion of a paper that was written by someone else.
Copying sections of someone else’s work.

9. Paraphrasing or rewording someone else’s paper without a citation.
Cutting paragraphs from sources and pasting them into the body of your paper.
Paraphrasing or rewording someone else’s paper without a citation.
Placing someone else’s exact words in the body of your paper and not placing quotation marks around them.
Failing to cite the source of factual information in your paper that’s not common knowledge.
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10. Writing Skills & Strategies
The Power of Writing
Communicate your knowledge & the quality of your thinking
Ability to write clearly, concisely, and persuasively will promote professional success beyond college.
Writing to Learn: writing is not just a communication skill; it is also a learning strategy that can deepen understanding.
9 Strategies

11. 9 Strategies Writing to Listen Improve attention & listening skills
Writing to Read
Promote active listening & active reading
Writing to Remember
Lists & memos
Writing to Organize
Summaries & outlines

12. Writing to Study Writing to Understand Writing to Create
Write study guides and practice answers
Writing to Understand
Paraphrasing
Writing to Create
Freewriting

13. Writing to Discuss
Writing for Problem Solving

14. Writing Papers & Reports
College papers
Time
Multistage process
Goal/Purpose
Generate ideas
Focused freewriting

15. Multistage process (cont.) Categorize Ideas Logical sequence
Introduction
thesis
Body
Topic sentence
Conclusion
More than one draft

16. Multistage process (cont.)
Critically review your work (re-vision: view again)
Seek feedback

17. Multistage process (cont.)
Conclusion & Introduction in final draft
Proofread
Review graded paper.

18. Public Speaking

19. Public Speaking Strategies Know the purpose Pick a topic
Informative
Persuasive
Pick a topic
Create an outline

20. Rehearse & Revise
Receive feedback BEFORE your presentation
Observe presentations by others
Maximize eye contact

21. Tips for Using Powerpoint (Box 7.3)
Bullet points
3- 5 points/slide
Titles = heading/categories
Font size
Use color
Visual images
Cite source
Proofread

22. Managing Speech Anxiety
Classroom communication apprehension
Stage fright/speech anxiety

23. Strategies for controlling speech anxiety
Focus on relaxation
Avoid caffeine
Positive mindset
Focus on the message