The Confident Student Author:Carol C. 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, rather than in smaller segments, to help students make the transition to college-level reading and work. In addition, broader c... more »overage of career readiness appears throughout, including a new chapter, Building Career Skills, with information on decision-making as it relates to career preparation, and an emphasis on the skills most valued by employers.New supplemental material includes the HM ClassPrep CD-ROM, containing information from the Instructor's Resource Manual, PowerPoint Slides, clips from the Roundtable Discussion Videos, quizzes, activities, exercises, and sample syllabimost of which can be manipulated to suit individual courses.
New! Revised Thinking Ahead About Career exercises encourage students to apply the concepts they learn in each chapter to real-life situations. Exercises are linked to the new Career Resource Center web site where related articles can be applied to in-text questions.
New!The Comprehensive Skill Finder (or Confidence Index) includes more specific topics and more complete analysis. This assessment tool provides a 4-point scale to help students discover which of their skills need further development. This feature is also available online with key terms linked to definitions. Plus workplace skills are marked with an asterisk to indicate a related article on the Career Resource Center web site.
New! A Money Management section in Chapter One discusses financial goal-setting, following a budget, and credit card savvy.
Modules available! Instructors may select only the chapters they want from a database of 20 modules to create a customized text geared specifically to individual needs of students.
The critical thinking chapter appears early in the text to allow students to apply the skills they learn throughout the course and in Critical Thinking Exercises.