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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 will be composed of personal action plans designed to achieve success in six primary areas: Using Axia’s Educational Resources, Upholding Academic Honesty, Setting and Achieving Goals, Managing Time Wisely, Fostering Reading Comprehension and Retention, and Applying Personality and Learning Styles. 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.
Topics:
• Using Axia’s Educational Resources
o Downloading files for use on your machine or portable device
o Navigating the University Library
o Identifying key information within articles
• Upholding Academic Honesty
o Understanding Axia’s academic honesty policy
o Understanding consequences of plagiarism
o Avoiding plagiarism
• Setting and Achieving Goals
o Identifying long- and short-term educational and career goals
o How to reach goals despite obstacles
o How an Axia degree relates to goals
• Managing Time Wisely
o Balancing time between courses at Axia
o Juggling school, work, and family responsibilities
o Prioritizing and avoiding time-wasters
• Fostering Reading Comprehension and Retention
o Using reading comprehension techniques for successful reading
o Using SQ3R and other study habits
• Applying Personality and Learning Styles
o Using your personality type for distance learning success
o Developing your multiple intelligences
o Relating to others who have different personality types and intelligences
Final Project Timeline
You should budget your time wisely and work on your project throughout the course. The...
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