What is a College Student?
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 130
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This textbook is suitable for teachers and students in first-year composition, rhetoric, study skills classes or similar general-education courses. It also has application for high school students harboring questions about the college experience. While it is appropriate for any student, it has the first-generation, urban college student in mind.
This book is a work of fiction. All characters, scenes and situations are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Welcome
Chapter One Exploration and Problem Solving
Knowledge
Imagination
Curiosity
Inquiry
Ignorance
Chapter Two College Culture, Custom and Tradition
Customs
College Resources
Evaluation Customs
Chapter Three Reading
Power
Starting Points
Reading for Point of View
Reading Methods
Theme
Targeting
Chapter Four Major Concepts
The Comfort of Discomfort
Critical Thinking
Critique
Bias
Assumption
Relative Terms
Chapter Five Argumentation
Writing
Targeting and Assumption
Appeals
Logic
Chapter Six Conclusions
Fanciful Thinking
Problems
About the Author
Gint Aras (Karolis Gintaras Žukauskas) has been trapped on planet Earth since 1973. He is also an anthologized essayist and short-story writer. His books include two novels, Finding the Moon in Sugar (Infinity, 2009) and The Fugue (Tortoise, 2016), and also the award-winning memoir, Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen (Homebound, 2019). He’s a live storyteller, community college instructor, meditation teacher and the father of two children. He splits his time between Chicago, IL, and Klaipėda, LT.