Final Project: Student Survival Guide

Essay by jayce121College, UndergraduateA, April 2009

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Axia College of University of PheonixIn this student survival guide I will include tips and best practices that will assist me in my future classes here at Axia College. I will create action plans that will be resources for me to look back on during my future assignments in order to help me with completing my work accurately and efficiently. The topics that I will include are using Axia's Educational Resources, Upholding Academic Honesty, Setting and Achieving Goals, Managing Time Wisely, Fostering Reading Comprehension and Retention, and Applying Personality and Learning Styles.

Axia offers a variety of educational resources and technologically convenient tools. You are able to download files for use on your computer to help you with your assignments and course materials. They offer an online library that holds a wealth of information for you to access as needed for research and assignments. The tools offered such as the tutorials, the audio appendixes, and the digital stories have been excellent learning resources for me.

I hope to see these tools more often in my future classes. It brings the online learning experiences to a different level and reaches the student in a different way. Throughout my future courses I plan to take advantage of Axia's educational resources and tools by:•Utilizing the online library for research and school assignmentsoNavigating the online library with efficiencyoUnderstanding how to access the key information in the articles and research I do in order to site materials correctly•Taking full advantage of the audio appendixes, the digital stories, and the tutorialsoDownloading files onto my PCoWatching the tutorials to learn and retain informationoWatching and listening to the digital storiesAxia has a no tolerance policy when it comes to upholding academic honesty. As stated in the Student Code of Academic Integrity:"Academic integrity violations include all forms of academic...