Failing In College in Five Easy Steps: Avoiding Failure through Understanding
Most students spend quite a bit of time focusing on what is needed to succeed, but they very rarely think about what it takes to fail. The author utilizes his own teaching experience to provide study help for college students. While written in a humorous way, the message is critical: you must learn why people fail to avoid it yourself.
I wrote this book because I feel that a majority of failing grades on the undergraduate level are preventable. Since I started teaching in 2005, I have noticed something curious and troubling about my students. Students that do well in class (or even do okay in class) do so in a great number of ways. However, most students who fail classes do so almost as if they were following a method of intentional failure. Obviously, no one is trying to fail, but many students simply do not realize that certain behaviors will directly lead to failing a class, or even failing out of college all together.
I chose to write this book in a sarcastic way not to be mean, but because to write it in any other way would be either depressing or come off as nagging. Obviously, many students who fail simply do not care about academics or have serious problems outside of school. However, I firmly believe that with a little knowledge, many of those failing students could change their ways.
-Jeremy E. Baker, Sociology Professor
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I wrote this book because I feel that a majority of failing grades on the undergraduate level are preventable. Since I started teaching in 2005, I have noticed something curious and troubling about my students. Students that do well in class (or even do okay in class) do so in a great number of ways. However, most students who fail classes do so almost as if they were following a method of intentional failure. Obviously, no one is trying to fail, but many students simply do not realize that certain behaviors will directly lead to failing a class, or even failing out of college all together.
I chose to write this book in a sarcastic way not to be mean, but because to write it in any other way would be either depressing or come off as nagging. Obviously, many students who fail simply do not care about academics or have serious problems outside of school. However, I firmly believe that with a little knowledge, many of those failing students could change their ways.
-Jeremy E. Baker, Sociology Professor
Failing In College in Five Easy Steps: Avoiding Failure through Understanding
Most students spend quite a bit of time focusing on what is needed to succeed, but they very rarely think about what it takes to fail. The author utilizes his own teaching experience to provide study help for college students. While written in a humorous way, the message is critical: you must learn why people fail to avoid it yourself.
I wrote this book because I feel that a majority of failing grades on the undergraduate level are preventable. Since I started teaching in 2005, I have noticed something curious and troubling about my students. Students that do well in class (or even do okay in class) do so in a great number of ways. However, most students who fail classes do so almost as if they were following a method of intentional failure. Obviously, no one is trying to fail, but many students simply do not realize that certain behaviors will directly lead to failing a class, or even failing out of college all together.
I chose to write this book in a sarcastic way not to be mean, but because to write it in any other way would be either depressing or come off as nagging. Obviously, many students who fail simply do not care about academics or have serious problems outside of school. However, I firmly believe that with a little knowledge, many of those failing students could change their ways.
-Jeremy E. Baker, Sociology Professor
I wrote this book because I feel that a majority of failing grades on the undergraduate level are preventable. Since I started teaching in 2005, I have noticed something curious and troubling about my students. Students that do well in class (or even do okay in class) do so in a great number of ways. However, most students who fail classes do so almost as if they were following a method of intentional failure. Obviously, no one is trying to fail, but many students simply do not realize that certain behaviors will directly lead to failing a class, or even failing out of college all together.
I chose to write this book in a sarcastic way not to be mean, but because to write it in any other way would be either depressing or come off as nagging. Obviously, many students who fail simply do not care about academics or have serious problems outside of school. However, I firmly believe that with a little knowledge, many of those failing students could change their ways.
-Jeremy E. Baker, Sociology Professor
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| BN ID: | 2940151168038 |
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| Publisher: | eBooks Press |
| Publication date: | 05/21/2015 |
| Series: | eBooks-Press.com College Survival Pack , #1 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 311 KB |
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