AAA115 - Creating College Success
Section # 7090 M&W 12:00-12:50pm J139
Instructor: Dr. Rick A. Sheets

Journals due for class credit:

Getting On Course to Your Success

• Five Suggestions
• Setting Goals: DAPPS and SMART
• Struggling vs. Successful Students
• Success Team Outcomes/Desires Agreement
• Learning College Customs Team Quiz
• Forks in the Road
• Self Esteem
• Calculating Your Grade Point Average (GPA)

Accepting Personal Responsibility

• Personal Responsibility Model
• Inner Voices
• Language of Responsibility
• A+B=C (Activation event + Belief = Consequence)

Mastering Self-Management

• 32-Day Commitment to Change Form
  
• Study Strategy Handouts:
  
  

  Avoiding Plagiarism	Preparing for Exams	Textbook Study Strategy
  Improving Memory	Process of Writing	Time Management
  Improving Vocabulary	Taking Lecture Notes	Using Typography
  Learning to Learn	Taking Text Notes	Writing a Research Paper

• Math Strategy Handouts:
  
  

  Top Five Tips for a Successful Math Tutoring Experience	Top Ten Survivor Tips for Math Anxiety
  Top Ten Survivor Tips For College Math	Top Ten Tips on Studying for a Math Test

  
  
• Writing Strategy Handouts:
  
  

  Comma Uses	Punctuation: Hyphen and Apostrophe
  Comma Abuses	Punctuation: Quotation Marks, Italics and Underlining
  Using MLA Format	Punctuation: Semicolon, Colon, Parenthesis, Dash
  Using APA Format