College Success
This textbooks covers many different subject areas that can help first time college students gain success. I did not see a index or glossy but the is a good review at the end of each chapter. I do think there may be too much information that may overwhelm a college student.
The content is very accurate and sometimes redundant. I did not notice any errors and I do not believe it is biased.
I think this textbook is up to date and students will still get use out of the book in the future. Being an open textbook updates should be relatively easy.
Other than sometimes repetitive the book is really simple and would be easy to follow for college students, especially freshman. The authors use very simple language for students to understand.
The book is very consistent on the topics that are covered. With so many different authors the terminology and framework are very similar.
The book is broke down to really divide topics for your course. An instructor can go in order or are able to skip chapters and the students would not miss too much except for the subject that the teacher decides to skip. You would have to do this book over one or two semesters to be able to cover all of the subject matter.
The topics covered in the book are very organized and have good structure overall.
I really liked the checkpoint exercises throughout the book that the students can fill out. I feel this will help the student understand the subject better and give them a better understanding of the topic. I think the charts are appropriate to the subject matter and are very helpful. I do not think the display features will distract or confuse the reader.
I did not read any grammatical errors.
I feel the textbook is not insensitive or offensive in any way. I really like the social chapter (Chapter 9) in dealing with the social aspect of college. There are many areas that the text could have addressed in that chapter that would have dealt with gender, race, religion, sex, traditional students, online students, and/or age but I feel that would have distracted from theme of the textbook overall.
I think the book has a lot more positives than negatives but I feel it would be information overload for students who would use this book. I feel it is very long. Although the subject matter is very good and it does have a lot of ways that students can have success in college i am leery on how many college students will actually read the book. I have actually used portions of this book with my wellness class this semester. This is something I will look at using in the future with different classes that i teach, and recommend to peers in the teaching field.