Picking Your Nose in Class and Other Ways to Ruin Your Academic Career: An Insider's Practical Guide to Etiquette for College Students
Written from the perspective of a college professor with thirty years experience, this book good-naturedly shares with students the way many faculty expect students to behave in a variety of situations. Advice ranges from classroom courtesies to surviving difficult roommates to many other topics unique to the campus environment. Etiquette is learning to live successfully in community, and this book describes common requirements of the college community. Among the requirements, for example, are the basic social skills of taking meals. Table manners are discussed in an entertaining way. Rather than simply indicating which fork to use, the author provides a humorous contrast between "dining" in a fine restaurant and "chowing-down" in the student cafeteria. Beneath the funny comments, however, lies a wealth of valuable information for students to consider as they form the habits of mind they will take with them beyond the university. For those students who enjoy learning the hard way, a list of sure-fire suggestions for getting oneself ostracized by virtually everyone on campus is included. Examples of good conduct--and misconduct--are offered for understanding effective ways for relating to faculty, staff, and other students.
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Picking Your Nose in Class and Other Ways to Ruin Your Academic Career: An Insider's Practical Guide to Etiquette for College Students
Written from the perspective of a college professor with thirty years experience, this book good-naturedly shares with students the way many faculty expect students to behave in a variety of situations. Advice ranges from classroom courtesies to surviving difficult roommates to many other topics unique to the campus environment. Etiquette is learning to live successfully in community, and this book describes common requirements of the college community. Among the requirements, for example, are the basic social skills of taking meals. Table manners are discussed in an entertaining way. Rather than simply indicating which fork to use, the author provides a humorous contrast between "dining" in a fine restaurant and "chowing-down" in the student cafeteria. Beneath the funny comments, however, lies a wealth of valuable information for students to consider as they form the habits of mind they will take with them beyond the university. For those students who enjoy learning the hard way, a list of sure-fire suggestions for getting oneself ostracized by virtually everyone on campus is included. Examples of good conduct--and misconduct--are offered for understanding effective ways for relating to faculty, staff, and other students.
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Picking Your Nose in Class and Other Ways to Ruin Your Academic Career: An Insider's Practical Guide to Etiquette for College Students

Picking Your Nose in Class and Other Ways to Ruin Your Academic Career: An Insider's Practical Guide to Etiquette for College Students

by Glenn West
Picking Your Nose in Class and Other Ways to Ruin Your Academic Career: An Insider's Practical Guide to Etiquette for College Students

Picking Your Nose in Class and Other Ways to Ruin Your Academic Career: An Insider's Practical Guide to Etiquette for College Students

by Glenn West

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Overview

Written from the perspective of a college professor with thirty years experience, this book good-naturedly shares with students the way many faculty expect students to behave in a variety of situations. Advice ranges from classroom courtesies to surviving difficult roommates to many other topics unique to the campus environment. Etiquette is learning to live successfully in community, and this book describes common requirements of the college community. Among the requirements, for example, are the basic social skills of taking meals. Table manners are discussed in an entertaining way. Rather than simply indicating which fork to use, the author provides a humorous contrast between "dining" in a fine restaurant and "chowing-down" in the student cafeteria. Beneath the funny comments, however, lies a wealth of valuable information for students to consider as they form the habits of mind they will take with them beyond the university. For those students who enjoy learning the hard way, a list of sure-fire suggestions for getting oneself ostracized by virtually everyone on campus is included. Examples of good conduct--and misconduct--are offered for understanding effective ways for relating to faculty, staff, and other students.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780983365211
Publisher: Sarabby Press
Publication date: 05/03/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 17 - 18 Years

About the Author

Glenn R. West, Ph.D., is a university professor who has taught in a range of settings from small, private, undergraduate liberal arts colleges to doctoral education in large, public universities. Throughout his thirty years experience in teaching, advising, counseling and conducting freshman orientation programs, Dr. West has emphasized personal growth of students as well as academic achievement.
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