HOW TO FLUNK OUT OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE: 101 SUREFIRE STRATEGIES THAT GUARANTEE FAILURE

By Cari B. Cannon

This book will describe 101 ways to sabotage your education so you can be one of the many who never graduate with a trade or make it to a four-year college. The book will include real-world examples... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0757525032
• ISBN13: 9780757525032
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Not just for Community College students

I teach at a community college and am adopting this very readable book for one of my classes this fall. Dr. Cannon takes a humorous but rigorous and tough-love approach to college success. I estimate that over the years I've seen students do at least 80 of her 101 "surefire strategies that guarantee failure." Here are some of them: "Avoid Using Study Materials"; "Ignore Test Anxiety"; "Procrastinate"; "Wait for Your Professor to Come to You"; "Request Extra Credit or Extra, Extra Credit." She concludes each chapter with concise and spot-on "strategies for success." Most of the book can easily apply to four-year college students (and, dare I say, some graduate students).

Should be assigned in all first year community college classes

Dr. Cannon has produced a book that is both a valuable teaching tool and enjoyable to read. How To Flunk Out of a Community College would be an outstanding selection for "freshman experience" programs, "guidance studies" classes, basic reading and writing skills classes, any "mentoring" programs, and as supplemental reading for classes that deal with the issue of decision making. By infusing the perspectives of instructors with her own brand of student-centered humor, Dr. Cannon has provided all students with a text that gives them the basic rules for academic (and personal) success in a concise, readable, and memorable format. Highly recommended!!