College Success - A Concise Practical Guide
Lead Author(s): David L. Strickland, Carol J. Strickland
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Pricing
Average price of textbook across most common format
Top Hat
Strickland – College Success: A Concise Practical Guide (7th ed.)
Up to 40-60% more affordable
Lifetime access on any device
Cengage
Skip Downing – On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life (9th ed availo February 2019)
$60
eBook
$124.95
Textbook
Cengage
Dave Ellis –Becoming a Master Student (16th ed) available on Cengage Unlimited
$60 purchase
$24.49 rental
eBook
$92.95
In-book Interactivity
Includes embedded multi-media files and integrated software to enhance visual presentation of concepts directly in textbook
Top Hat
Strickland – College Success: A Concise Practical Guide (7th ed.))
Cengage
Skip Downing – On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life (9th ed availo February 2019))
Cengage
Dave Ellis –Becoming a Master Student (16th ed) available on Cengage Unlimited
Customizable
Ability to revise, adjust and adapt content to meet needs of course and instructor
Top Hat
Strickland – College Success: A Concise Practical Guide (7th ed.))
Cengage
Skip Downing – On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life (9th ed availo February 2019))
Cengage
Dave Ellis –Becoming a Master Student (16th ed) available on Cengage Unlimited
Built-in Interactive Assessment Questions
Assessment questions with feedback embedded throughout textbook
Top Hat
Strickland – College Success: A Concise Practical Guide (7th ed.))
Cengage
Skip Downing – On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life (9th ed availo February 2019))
Cengage
Dave Ellis –Becoming a Master Student (16th ed) available on Cengage Unlimited
All-in-one Platform
Access to additional questions, test banks, and slides available within one platform
Top Hat
Strickland – College Success: A Concise Practical Guide (7th ed.))
Cengage
Skip Downing – On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life (9th ed availo February 2019))
Cengage
Dave Ellis –Becoming a Master Student (16th ed) available on Cengage Unlimited
About this textbook
Textbook Details
College Success: A Concise Practical Guide is especially designed to help students succeed in college. It contains twelve brief—but rich—chapters on topics proven to make a difference for academic success. It teaches students to focus on learning rather than focus on grades.
This book is written by two professors who have over forty-six years of combined teaching experience. They have taught in small two-year colleges as well as in large public and private universities
Authors
David L. Strickland, MAEast Georgia State College
David L. Strickland, MA, is the director of the Student Success Program and a professor of sociology at East Georgia State College. He is coauthor of an introductory sociology textbook, My Sociology, now in its second edition. He is the author of the freshman orientation course textbook at East Georgia State College, College Success: A Concise Practical Guide (seventh edition).
Carol J. Strickland, PhDGeorgia Southern University
Carol J. Strickland, PhD, RN, is retired from teaching but served for seven years as associate professor of nursing and director of nursing research at Georgia Southern University School of Nursing in Statesboro, Georgia. She worked in nursing at the University of Rochester School of Nursing in Rochester, New York, for twenty-four years, where she received her PhD in nursing. She has published numerous articles in the area of psychiatric mental health nursing practice, psychoneuroimmunology, and sociology.
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