Student Survival Guide

You have now taken a major step in your life. The most difficult part is now over. You have chosen to continue your education. The rest should be easy now, right? If you believe this, you are sorely mistaken.   Your journey has just begun. Hopefully, the next several minutes of reading will help you figure out the ins and outs of your quest. We will cover AXIA’s educational resources and learn how to uphold your academic honesty by avoiding plagiarism. We will also see how important it is to set short and long-term goals. Time can be consumed very quickly while attending college. So it is very important that you also learn to manage your time wisely. We must also not forget the reasons we are here, to learn. So we must hold in very high regard our reading comprehension and retention strategies. All these different topics will have to be tailored to our different types of personalities and learning styles.   With all that being said let us now get started with your crash course to surviving college.

    If you have decided to read this, you must have researched a document that would assist you or give you a briefing on how you will get through these years. Maybe you enjoy research as I do. Well AXIA has taken this into consideration and taken some of the pain out of doing research. Sometimes it can be a long exhaustive process. AXIA’s answer to that is the University Library. The University Library is a website that includes a compilation of powerful databases to ease your search. Each database has descriptions so you may choose the one that best suits your topic. Most of them have options integrated that will further assist in your trek to find your information. They include: the ability to employ Boolean search techniques, wildcard searches, and limiting to peer-reviewed articles. The peer-reviewed articles are especially helpful when requiring more scholarly information. They are reviewed by at least one expert in the field.   There are also other features such... [continues]

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