Illustrated Course Guides

Book excerpt: Your curriculum provides critical training in your field of study to prepare students for the workforce. But do they know how to communicate effectively? Can they present themselves professionally on a resume or in a job interview? If given a problem, do they know how to break it down and solve it? Can they work in a team? These "soft skills" are crucial for success in the workplace. Now you can help your students learn these essential skills using the Illustrated Course Guides: Soft Skills for a Digital Workplace series. Key Benefits Employs the Illustrated Series' reader-friendly pedagogy providing short, focused text on key soft skills needed to succeed in a technological workplace. Provides timeless information about skills that make students more marketable to companies and that are necessary in the professional world. Complements any course with modular content that can be integrated in existing courses or used for short courses or workshops. Each two-page spread presents 5 or 6 essential elements related to a topic so that students can focus on the key information. Wide variety of end-of-part assignments such as Critical Thinking questions and Be the Critic exercises require students to analyze and evaluate important soft skills topics to promote independent problem solving. CourseMate brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools that support the printed textbook. Course Mate includes an integrated eBook and interactive teaching and learning tools including quizzes, review cards, and scenario videos to help students master crucial soft skills. Book jacket.