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Creating the Future You, with eBook Access Code: Envision, Pursue, Persist
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ISBN13: 9781119899198
Publisher: Wiley
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 288
Language: English
Helps students navigate their college experience and increase their opportunities for success
Creating The Future You: Envision, Pursue, Persist is an engaging, appealing, and encouraging introduction to higher education, providing a unique recipe for students to succeed and thrive in college and beyond. An innovative mixture of reading, video, and interactive learning activities, this concise and student-friendly textbook guides students of various backgrounds, perspectives, and academic abilities through the challenges and opportunities of their first year at college.
Recognizing that every student embarking on their journey through college has their own unique set of hopes and dreams for the future, Creating The Future You employs a student-centric approach that helps students identify and nurture their passions, define their goals, foster lasting relationships, develop the mindset for success in school and life, and more.
Authors Brad Garner and Catherine Sanderson provide a highly personalized format for students to gain information on each topic, measure their levels of performance, and engage in meaningful conversation with each other, with their professors, with other members of their campus community, and with other important figures in their lives.
Perfect for first-year college experience courses, Creating The Future You contains a wealth of interactive pedagogical tools and activities that offer students abundant opportunities for self-assessment, personal reflection, discussion, and action-taking in both their education and their entry into the job market.
AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA LEARNING EXPERIENCE
This textbook includes access to an interactive, multimedia e-text. Icons throughout the print book signal corresponding digital content in the e-text.
Video Content: A variety of appealing videos complements the text to engage students and the wide range of people and perspectives reflected in the video content helps all students develop a sense of belonging and appreciation of diversity.
- Author's Introductions: Produced by Brad Garner and presented by Catherine Sanderson, these videos provide a lively introduction to the chapter's main topics and questions.
- Reading Companion Videos: Each of these short videos introduces a specific topic, drawing students into the reading, self-assessments, and personal reflections.
- What Would You Do? Videos: Members of a diverse cast of characters, all recent college graduates, share an everyday or workplace dilemma and ask readers' advice on how to handle the situation.
Interactive Self-Assessments: The e-text includes easy-to-use interactive versions of the abundant Test Yourself self-assessments that automatically tabulate students' results.
Downloadable Documents: The text's many Think Deeper question sets for self-reflection and Make It Personal frameworks for personal application are downloadable from the e-text.
Interactive Figures and Tables: Appearing throughout the enhanced e-text, interactive figures and tables engage students and facilitate study.
Interactive Self-Scoring Quizzes: Appearing with each module's Review, Discuss, and Apply questions in the e-text, students will find a short self-scoring review quiz, and a self-scoring Practice Quiz appearswith each chapter's Summary.
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