0070919771 / Softcover / 432 pages / Copyright © 2005

You Can Take It With You

The Second Canadian edition of this text is designed to be used by students in first-year experience courses. For many students, the first-year experience course is a literal lifeline. It provides the means to learn what it takes to achieve academic success and to make a positive social adjustment to the campus community. If students learn how to do well in their first term of college or university, they are building a foundation that will last a lifetime

P.O.W.E.R. Learning provides a framework that students can begin to use immediately to become more effective students:

Prepare – Before we seek to accomplish any task, we all do some form of planning. With P.O.W.E.R Learning, students learn how to ensure that planning is systematic.

Organize – To reach your goal, you need to organize your available resources. The better a student's physical and intellectual organization, the more successful he or she will be. P.O.W.E.R. Learning helps students to structure their workspaces and their thought processes.

Work – How effectively you get down to business depends on many factors. Staying motivated and in control directs and fuels every student's behaviour. P.O.W.E.R. Learning provides students with the fuel.

Evaluate – Even the greatest work does not spring forth as the embodiment of perfection. With P.O.W.E.R. Learning, students learn to critically look over their own work.

Rethink – Look at what you've done with fresh eyes. Students learn to question and challenge themselves—both their failures and their successes. The P.O.W.E.R. system is an ongoing process of rethinking—both in terms of the work, and the self.