College Culture, Student Success helps students develop reading, writing, and thinking skills as well as become
familiar with the common customs, underlying assumptions, and strategies for success associated with being a college
student.
This brief, flexible, and contemporary reader explores topics familiar to many of today�s college students, including
being a first-generation college student, balancing college and work, recognizing different learning styles, taking
responsibility for one�s education, and experiencing campus life. Students will become more knowledgeable about
the larger community they are joining and better understand some of the experiences of their peers even as they
reflect on their own experiences, assumptions, and motivation.
Apparatus that invites students to bring their own experiences to an interpretation, recognize how authors make
use of rhetorical techniques, make thematic connections across multiple readings, and conduct research on the Web
ensures that College Culture, Student Success is particularly effective in composition courses.