9 Week
Associate Level Material
Appendix A
Final Project Overview and Timeline
Final Project Overview
Your final project for GEN/105 is a Student Survival Guide. To complete your project, you will draw from skills and information you learned in the course.
Your Student Survival Guide should be a functional tool for you to use throughout your program—include specific details to make your action plans as realistic as possible. You can create a formal paper, a brochure using one of the templates in Microsoft® Word, or another format as approved by your instructor.
Your Student Survival Guide is composed of personal action plans designed to achieve success in six primary areas:
* General internet skills
* Using the Internet for academic purposes * Appropriately communicating with different audiences
* University of Phoenix and University Library resources
* Identifying technological tools available to University of Phoenix students * Using the University Library to conduct academic research * Locating the Center for Writing Excellence and the Center for Mathematics Excellence
* Upholding academic honesty
* Understanding University of Phoenix’s academic honesty policy * Understanding consequences of plagiarism * Avoiding plagiarism
* Setting and achieving goals
* Identifying long- and short-term educational and career goals * How to reach goals despite obstacles * How a University of Phoenix degree relates to goals
* Managing time wisely
* Balancing time at University of Phoenix * Juggling school, work, and family responsibilities * Prioritizing and avoiding time-wasters
* Fostering reading comprehension and retention
* Using reading comprehension techniques for successful reading * Using SQ3R and other study habits
* Adapting work habits to fit your personality
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Appendix A
Final Project Overview and Timeline
Final Project Overview
Your final project for GEN/105 is a Student Survival Guide. To complete your project, you will draw from skills and information you learned in the course.
Your Student Survival Guide should be a functional tool for you to use throughout your program—include specific details to make your action plans as realistic as possible. You can create a formal paper, a brochure using one of the templates in Microsoft® Word, or another format as approved by your instructor.
Your Student Survival Guide is composed of personal action plans designed to achieve success in six primary areas:
* General internet skills
* Using the Internet for academic purposes * Appropriately communicating with different audiences
* University of Phoenix and University Library resources
* Identifying technological tools available to University of Phoenix students * Using the University Library to conduct academic research * Locating the Center for Writing Excellence and the Center for Mathematics Excellence
* Upholding academic honesty
* Understanding University of Phoenix’s academic honesty policy * Understanding consequences of plagiarism * Avoiding plagiarism
* Setting and achieving goals
* Identifying long- and short-term educational and career goals * How to reach goals despite obstacles * How a University of Phoenix degree relates to goals
* Managing time wisely
* Balancing time at University of Phoenix * Juggling school, work, and family responsibilities * Prioritizing and avoiding time-wasters
* Fostering reading comprehension and retention
* Using reading comprehension techniques for successful reading * Using SQ3R and other study habits
* Adapting work habits to fit your personality
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