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Making A’s in College

Starting college? Returning after years away? In college now–but struggling? College is demanding for everyone–but doing well can open doors for the rest of your life.

If you aren’t sure you’re ready to succeed on today’s highly competitive campuses, “Making A’s in College” can quickly bring you up to speed. Dr. Sandra Gibson has taught thousands of college students the study skills they need, and her books and video are used in colleges around the world.

Now, for about the cost of a hamburger, you can have easy-to-read, completely useful information on overcoming procrastination, getting organized, managing your time, building concentration, taking great notes in class, reading better and much more effectively, studying efficiently, building a powerful memory, taking tests wisely, managing test anxiety, and much more.

This isn’t a dry textbook, and it’s not a random collection of tips and hints. It’s an organized approach to college success that’s based on research about how your brain actually works, and on Dr. Gibson’s years of experience with college students. With the skills from this book you’ll know how to study smarter and not just harder.

Don’t worry about being unprepared when you walk into a challenging class. With the study skills from “Making A’s in College,” you’ll be ready to excel–and to open doors for the rest of your life!Starting college? Returning after years away? In college now–but struggling? College is demanding for everyone–but doing well can open doors for the rest of your life.

If you aren’t sure you’re ready to succeed on today’s highly competitive campuses, “Making A’s in College” can quickly bring you up to speed. Dr. Sandra Gibson has taught thousands of college students the study skills they need, and her books and video are used in colleges around the world.

Now, for about the cost of a hamburger, you can have easy-to-read, completely useful information on overcoming procrastination, getting organized, managing your time, building concentration, taking great notes in class, reading better and much more effectively, studying efficiently, building a powerful memory, taking tests wisely, managing test anxiety, and much more.

This isn’t a dry textbook, and it’s not a random collection of tips and hints. It’s an organized approach to college success that’s based on research about how your brain actually works, and on Dr. Gibson’s years of experience with college students. With the skills from this book you’ll know how to study smarter and not just harder.

Don’t worry about being unprepared when you walk into a challenging class. With the study skills from “Making A’s in College,” you’ll be ready to excel–and to open doors for the rest of your life!

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Question by Patrick-USA USA USA!: Will colleges ask for my high school GPA as a transfer student?
I currently have a 3.3 College GPA (keep in mind it’s only been one semester that could very well go down or up but I have been dedicated so I hope it goes up) but in high school I had a 2.7 and it’s kind of scaring me if colleges need to see that.

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Answer by Coog75
I don’t think they ask for it. Check with the colleges you are applying to

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2-in-1 Hybrid Notebook Planners are Free for College Students

Los Angeles (PRWEB) May 20, 2008

GPA Media announces tremendous success in its first year publishing spiral-bound notebooks as an alternative media for advertisers targeting college students. GPA Media is the first and largest company to introduce free notebook media in the U.S. In its first year, GPA Media has secured ongoing advertising relationships with major brands such as Disney, Hershey’s, Ice Breakers, GEICO, and Procter & Gamble’s Crest Whitestrips. Since the release of its first notebooks in Fall 2006, GPA Media has nearly tripled its revenue from one issue to the next.

For the upcoming Fall 2008 semester, GPA Media is distributing its free notebook media at 55 college campuses in 23 states, including University of California Berkeley (Cal), Oklahoma State, Arizona State University, Miami Dade, and University of Southern California (USC). Each school designs its own front cover and includes university phone numbers, academic calendars and campus maps. Each notebook also includes a student discount card and tear-out coupons, allowing marketers to run promotions and drive sales. The notebooks are then personally handed out to students the first week of each semester.

Richard West, Vice Chancellor of the Cal State Universities Group, is thrilled about the program. He says, “The notebooks are a blessing for students because they are a free guide to the campus and help students organize their class notes.”

GPA Media’s notebook media provides marketers with an effective tool to reach the largest and most valuable segment of the 18-24 population – the $ 200 billion college market –right when they are making purchasing decisions for the first time. Not to mention, college graduates earn on average 60 percent, or $ 1 million, more than non-college students over their lifetime. For these reasons, advertising to college students is often more valuable and results in lifelong customers.

However, it’s not easy to reach college students. The media habits and purchasing decisions of college students are different compared to non-college students. College students put more emphasis on the features and benefits of products rather than on imagery or coolness. So, it’s essential that marketers select a media that offers both information about benefits and coolness. College students also spend less time with traditional media, so marketers must find non-traditional mediums to reach them. Lastly, college students respond best to media that is college-specific–media that ties into their belief that “my four years of college are the best of my life.”

It’s no surprise then that GPA Media’s notebook media has been successful in the U.S. The university co-branded notebooks appeal to college students and build a one-to-one emotional connection with them.

“We ran a marketing test in the GPA notebooks for our Crest Whitestrips brand in which we specifically advertised to college students and tracked a promotional coupon online,” reports Christina Adams of Proctor and Gamble. “We had a positive experience working with GPA and enjoyed their innovative way of reaching college students.”

GPA Media’s patent-pending notebook media guarantees advertisers more than 5.5 million impressions each semester. An advertisement in its notebook media is also competitively priced compared to college newspapers, and offers nearly 10 times the number of impressions.

“We found the notebooks to be very effective within our media mix on college campuses across the U.S.,” says Adriane M. Pond of GEICO. “We aren’t just reaching college students in passing. The notebooks are personal, students carry them wherever they go…each semester we can bank on at least 40 impressions per notebook.”

About GPA Media Corp

GPA Media publishes and distributes its free notebook media–with advertising and promotions inside–to college students. The company uses recycled paper and ISO 3000 certified manufacturing process. The company was founded in late 2005 by Alex Canasi and Mark Schelbert. The team is joined by Lyle Landon, who serves as EVP of Sales in New York; and Joel Ginsberg, who serves as Director of College Sales in Los Angeles. GPA Media’s board members and advisers include: Joel Rudenstein, of Mill Neck Capital and former CFO of TDI Corp (now CBS Outdoor); investors from The Angel’s Forum; and Larry Butler, CEO of TrashTalkFCM. GPA Media is a proud member of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) and the National Association of College Stores (NACS).

Schools contact: Alison Miller, University Affairs (310) 294-3709 alison.miller @ gpamedia.com

Advertisers contact: Mark Schelbert, (310) 294-3709 mark @ gpamedia.com

Please visit gpamedia.com for further information.

Contact:    

Alison Miller

(310) 294-3709

schools @ gpamedia.com

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How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less

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Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master. You will learn how to:

Streamline and maximize your study time
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Write stellar prose without the agony

A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students—with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class.

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How to Raise Your GPA: College Essay Editing

The Super Big Picture

Give it time to breath.  Like a fine wine, you need to let it air out a bit, before critiquing the bouquet, or whatever they call it.  Attempt to give yourself a day or two before jumping back in.  If you’re like me, then you wrote this puppy the day before it was due.  If that’s the case, at least take an hour break and do nothing academic before revising and editing

Now, you wanna read it out loud.  This will help you pick up on any major stumbling blocks, such as tense consistency (past, present, future).  It also allows you to hear and see the work, instead of just using your eyes.  This is easily the most important and easiest tip you can do

Next up, make sure the thesis statement is easy to find and easy to understand.  Ask yourself these questions:  Does my thesis answer a question or assert an opinion?  Do my supporting paragraphs, including each paragraph’s topic sentence, relate directly to my thesis?  Is the organization logical?  Answering these questions, early on in the edition process, will greatly decrease the craziness of editing and revising you paper.  (Bonus Tip:  One way to check the organization is to write your thesis down and then all of your topic sentences.  This way, you can see how they relate to each other, without all the other words getting in the way)

Try to read it again, out loud, but this time as if you’re the reader.  The key to a good essay is to always keep your reader in mind.  Have good knowledge of your audience will allow you to make decisions, like how much background information is needed on what others would consider common knowledge.

 

Understand the power in your choice of words.  There are differences in the meanings of different words, and figuring out the right one is key to getting your point across.  Here are two sentences that take on different levels of meaning:

The Obama administration has been criticized for its response to the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Lately the Obama administration has been criticized for its response to the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
The media as been reporting various amounts of criticism towards the Obama Administration and their handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

 

The Small Sentence and Word Picture

One of the hardest aspects of sentence and word level editing is not getting missing the typos and word choice errors you have made.  By the time you get down to this level of editing, you have probably read the piece over and over, and it is easy to not see those errors.  Here are some tips and strategies to get at those annoying little ants of errors.

Read the essay with a piece of paper or ruler, focusing on one line at a time, looking for spelling, grammar, and word choice errors

Reading out loud is another strategy.  You will pick up on punctuation errors and the flow of your sentence structure

 

Another aspect of good editing is to learn from your mistakes.  If you’ve been told, or you know, that you use the passive voice often, attempt to not make those mistakes again.  Same to be said on any other errors you make.  You may want to consider keeping an error log, so you can review it often and fix the problem before they’re made

Get rid of wordiness or complex expressions.  If you can say “because” instead of “due to the fact that”, then say it.  Concise writing is good writing.  Here are some common wordy expression:

Due to the fact that / because

Is able to / can

In the event that / if

At the present time / Now

Have a tendency to / Usually

Had a discussion / Discussed

Made a decision / Decided

 

Punch up your writing with the ACTIVE VOICE and not the passive voice.  The best way to understand this concept is through examples.  An easy rule is to try and not use various forms of the verb “to be”.  Take a gander:

Active voice is when the subject is the agent or actor of action

The cat ate the mouse (“cat” as subject, “ate” being active)

Passive  voice  is when the subject is being acted upon

The mouse was eaten by the cat (“was eaten” is passive)

 

Do whatever possible to avoid phrases like “It is” and “There are” when you can say it differently.  For instance, “It is a fact that American’s enjoy soda pop” can just as easily be phrased as “A fact is that American’s enjoy soda pop” or “American’s enjoy soda pop”.  There is no need to stretch phrases out more than needed.

 

Be careful of clichés, colloquialisms, idioms, and the like.  If the person reading your paper doesn’t understand the phrase, it will only serve to confuse.

Cliché – Overused expression like “live and learn” or “stay the course”

Colloquialisms – a common spoken expression, often regional.  Examples include “more than one way to skin a cat” or calling all soft drinks by the name “Coke” or “y’all”

Idioms – Phrases that are not to be taken literally, like “he runs like the wind” or “break a leg”

 

Make sure you have a variety of sentences.  Some should be short.  Others should be long, winding down a stream of happiness, waiting for another drop of water to refresh itself.  Don’t work about too much variety; variety, itself, is the spice of life.  And yes, that was one big example of variety capped of with a horrible cliché.

A great trick to check on spelling, in addition to the horrible spell checker of MS Word, is to read the paper backwards, each line, from right to left.  There is nothing worse than giving the poor impression that you can’t follow college level instructions – to turn in a paper without spelling errors.

 

For more articles, resources, links, and suggested books, please head on over to College Essay Editing and my How to Raise Your GPA article series

 

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In 1950 the nursing program at Texas State College for Women (Now Texas Woman’s University) became the first nationally accredited nursing school in Texas. The College of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on July 19, 2007. The TWU Doctor of Nursing Practice builds on the legacy of the TWU PhD in Nursing Science, one the largest doctoral nursing program in the US.

College of Nursing was established in 1954, and is the 5th oldest Doctoral program in Nursing in the United States. TWU’s College of Nursing is the largest in Texas and the 11th largest in the U.S. TWU’s nursing doctoral program is the largest in the world. The College of Nursing offers programs on the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral level. In addition to the generic Bachelor of Science program for students with no prior degree, there is a fast track program and a weekend program for students who already have a Bachelor’s Degree; the school also has a Registered Nurse to Baccalaureate program (RN to BS) and a Registered Nurse to Master’s Program (RN to MS). The school is very competitive with the cut off GPA frequently at 3.9/4. The College of Nursing has campuses in Houston and Dallas.

School website www.twu.edu/nursing/default.asp

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