xxviii, 308 pages : 24 cm ON COURSE: STRATEGIES FOR CREATING SUCCESS IN COLLEGE AND IN LIFE empowers students with the tools they need to take charge of their academic and lifelong success. Through distinctive guided journal entries, Skip Downing encourages students to explore and develop their personal responsibility, self-motivation, interdependence, and self-esteem, and to make wise choices that create successful results. "Wise Choices in College" sections in each chapter help students develop the study skills they need to excel in their other courses. The 7th edition features expanded coverage of diversity, emphasizing the many ways in which people are different and how these differences often influence the choices they make. -- Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index 1. Getting on course to your success -- Taking the first step -- Understanding the culture of higher education -- Becoming an active learner -- Develop self-acceptance -- College customs -- 2. Accepting personal responsibility -- Adopting a creator mindset -- Mastering creator language -- Making wise decisions -- Change your inner conversation -- Reading -- 3. discovering self-motivation -- Creating inner motivation -- Designing a compelling life plan -- Write a personal affirmation -- Taking notes -- 4. Mastering self-management -- Acting on purpose -- Creating a leak-proof self-management system -- Developing self-discipline -- Develop self-confidence -- Organizing study materials -- 5. Employing interdependence -- Creating a support system -- Strengthening relationships with active listening -- Respecting cultural differences -- Be assertive -- Rehearsing and memorizing study materials -- 6. Gaining self-awareness -- Recognizing you are off course -- Identifying your scripts -- Rewriting your outdated scripts -- Write your own rules -- Taking tests -- 7. Adopting lifelong learning -- Developing a learning orientation to life -- Discovering your preferred ways of learning -- Employing critical thinking -- Develop self-respect -- Writing -- 8. Developing emotional intelligence -- Understanding emotional intelligence -- Reducing stress -- Creating flow -- Develop self-love -- Manging money -- 9. Staying on course to your success -- Planning your next steps