Confident Student Text or Macroeconomics

Confident Student Text

Author: Carol Kanar

This text combines practical and immediately applicable skills and critical-thinking strategies with an emphasis on self-discovery, self-management, and self-assessment. Chapters are presented as a continuous narrative to help students make the transition to college-level reading and work. A new chapter, Building Career Skills, includes information on decision-making as it relates to career preparation, and an emphasis on the skills most valued by employers.

• Revised Thinking Ahead About Career exercises encourage students to apply the concepts they learn in each chapter to real-life situations.
• The Comprehensive Skill Finder (or Confidence Index) provides a 4-point scale to help students discover which of their skills need further development. Plus workplace skills are marked with an asterisk to indicate a related article on the Career Resource Center Web site.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Note: Each chapter concludes with "Thinking Ahead about Career," a Chapter Review, and "Your Reflections."

• 1. Choosing Success in College
  Awareness Check 1: How Well Do You Know Your Campus?
  Form an Academic Support Group
  Computer Confidence: Use Email to Keep in Touch
  Embrace Diversity
  Critical Thinking
  Confidence Builder: How Flexible Are You?
  Know Where to Find Help
  Stay Informed
  Get Involved

  2. Motivating Yourself to Learn

  Assess Your Strengths and Weaknesses

  Awareness Check 2: What Are Your Strengths/Weaknesses in Basic Skills?

  Confidence Builder: Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory

  Discover and Use Your Learning Style

  Awareness Check 3: What Are Your Sensory Preferences?

  Awareness Check 4: How Does Your Body React?

  Awareness Check 5: What Is Your Locus of Control?

  Critical Thinking

  Adapt to Others' Styles

  Develop Critical Thinking and Study Skills

  3. Thinking Critically and Creatively

  Awareness Check 6: Are You a Critical Thinker?

  Examine Your Assumptions

  Make Predictions

  Sharpen Your Interpretations

  Evaluate What You Learn

  Critical Thinking

  Confidence Builder: Thinking Creatively

  4. Setting Goals and Solving Problems

  Set Goals for Success in College

  Awareness Check 7: What Are Your Reasons for Attending College?

  Set Reachable Long-Term and Short-Term Goals

  Confidence Builder: How to Develop a Positive Attitude

  Use the COPE Method to Solve Problems

  Critical Thinking

  5. Sharpening Your Classroom Skills

  AwarenessCheck 8: How Effective Are Your Classroom Skills?

  Prepare for Class

  Become an Active Listener

  Develop a Personal Note-Taking System

  Awareness Check 9: How Effective are Your Note-Taking Skills?

  Critical Thinking

  Learn to Make Effective Presentations

  Computer Confidence: Use a Computer to Organize Your Notes

  Participate in Class and Group Activities

  Confidence Builder: Interpersonal Skills for College and Career

  6. Making the Most of Your Time

  How to GRAB Some Time

  Awareness Check 10: Where Does Your Time Go?

  Scheduling Your Time

  Confidence Builder: Time-Management Tips for Student Athletes

  Procrastination

  Awareness Check 11: Are You a Procrastinator?

  Computer Confidence Use the Computer to Save Time

  Awareness Check 12: What Is Your Attitude Toward Studying?

  Critical Thinking

  7. Maintaining Your Health and Well-Being

  Health, Well-Being, and Success in College

  Staying Healthy

  Awareness Check 13: Are You Leading a Balanced Life?

  Computer Confidence: Are You Spending Too Much Time on the Net?

  Your Emotions

  Critical Thinking

  Confidence Builder: Emotional Intelligence—Another Way of Being Smart

  Your Interpersonal Skills

  Making Friends

  Your Sexuality

  8. Creating Your Study System

  Awareness Check 14: Are You Using Your Textbooks Efficiently?

  SQ3R: The Basic System

  Computer Confidence: Survey to Save Time on the Net

  Confidence Builder: Be Proactive about Studying

  Critical Thinking

  Devising Your Study System

  9. Organizing Information for Study

  Awareness Check 15: How Well Do You Organize Information for Study?

  Confidence Builder: Attitudes for Study

  Concept or Information Maps

  Comparison Charts

  Time Lines

  Process Diagrams

  Informal Outlines

  Branching Diagrams

  Computer Confidence: Using a Computer to Make Study Guides

  Critical Thinking

  10. Controlling Your Concentration

  Awareness Check 16: What Causes Poor Concentration?

  Eliminate Distractions

  Critical Thinking

  Eliminate Other Causes of Poor Concentration

  Confidence Builder: A Desktop Relaxation Technique

  11. Improving Learning and Memory

  How Memory Works

  Critical Thinking

  Why You Forget

  Awareness Check 17: What's in Your Long-Term Memory?

  Increase Your Memory Power

  Confidence Builder: Do Something Weird to Jog Your Memory

  12. Preparing for Tests

  Awareness Check 18: How Do You Study for Tests?

  How to Prepare for Tests: Three Steps

  Develop a Test-Taking Routine

  Critical Thinking

  Master Objective Tests

  Know How to Answer Essay Questions

  Confidence Builder: How to Raise Scores on Standardized Tests

  13. Reducing Test Anxiety

  Eliminate the Causes of Test Anxiety

  Awareness Check 19: Do You Have Test Anxiety?

  Learn to Relax

  Face Your Fears

  Fight Distractions

  Talk Positively to Yourself

  Confidence Builder: A Meditation Exercise

  Find Your Best Solution

  Critical Thinking

  14. Becoming an Active Reader

  Awareness Check 20: Are You an Active Reader?

  Reading Actively

  Find Main Idea, Details, and Implications

  Confidence Builder: Calculate Your Reading Rate

  Use a Textbook Marking System

  Critical Thinking

  15. Building Career Skills

  Awareness Check 21: Are You Ready for Tomorrow's Workforce?

  Working in the New Economy

  Where the Jobs Will Be

  Choosing Your Future

  Confidence Builder: College Is the Real World

  What Employers Want

  Computer Confidence: The Technology-Driven Workforce

  From College to Work

  Critical Thinking

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Macroeconomics

Author: N Gregory Mankiw

Mankiw's masterful textbook earns its widespread acclaim by covering macroeconomics as accessibly and concisely as possible, in a way that emphasizes the relevance of both the field's classical roots and its current practice. While achieving the same guiding objectives as previous editions, the new Fourth Edition offers refined discussions of every topic and incorporates important new ideas, data, and events throughout. In addition, the supplements package now includes a new Macroeconomics Companion Web site, featuring the new web-based version of David Weill's MacroBytes.