STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE

Student Survival Guide

Student Survival Guide

Introduction

There are lots of good reasons to live in residence, especially in your first year of university. For starters, you'll meet a lot of interesting new people, some of whom may become good friends. You'll also be immersed in school life in a way that living off-campus can't match. The benefits of residence life are so great that some universities require all first-year students to do it (Lee, & Smagorinsky, 2000).

That's not to say that there isn't a downside. Residences almost always mean a lack of privacy, lots of noise--often at odd hours--and the fun of communal showers (note: bring shower shoes!). Living with a total stranger in a small room can also be a challenge. You'll have to negotiate study schedules, sleep times, housekeeping, and visits from friends and significant others. But the skills you acquire in the process will be useful later. This paper discusses the student survival guide in a concise and comprehensive way.

Student Survival Guide

With the help of Axia College, I have gained an exceptional amount of knowledge and several new tools that will help me throughout my academic career. This is my survival guide, designed to help me achieve success while attending Axia College and covers six main areas of information covered in this class. This student survival guide will help me get the most out of my distance learning education. Though Axia College is an online learning environment, and all items are readily available, sometimes students like to have a printed copy of certain information like the course calendars and the course syllabus.

In this guide, I will discuss my plans to achieve success in five different areas: managing time wisely, upholding academic honesty, developing effective study skills, and setting and achieving goals. These five statistics play a very important role in the success of this online program. In order to survive and succeed in any situation, you have to want it. If you are not motivated to succeed, you are not motivated for life. Life is full off success whether it is for family, work, or in this case school.

Upholding Academic Honesty

Upholding academic honesty is not difficult at all to understand and do here at Axia College. Simply put, do not submit work written by anyone else as your own, including web-based information (Lee, & Smagorinsky, 2000). If you need to use someone else's words within the text of any of your assignments you must properly cite the work that you are directly quoting or even paraphrasing. The Center for Writing Excellence offers the ability to check writing assignments for plagiarism, helping you to avoid turning in assignments that may contain unintentional plagiarism. If you do not properly cite the information, you run the risk of having part or all of that assignment thrown out and receiving a zero. Consequences for plagiarism are severe and can lead to expulsion from Axia College. Therefore, it is extremely important that you cite all your references and any text or thoughts ...