WHERE TO GO FOR HELP …

• Learning Assistance Center Almost every campus has a learning assistance center, and this chapter’s topic is one of their specialties. More and more, the best students—and good students who want to be better students—use learning centers as much as students who are having academic difficulties. Services at learning centers are offered by both full-time professionals and highly skilled student tutors.
• Fellow College Students Often, the best help we can get comes from those who are closest to us: fellow students. Keep an eye out in your classes, residence hall, co-curricular groups, and other places for the most serious, purposeful, and directed students. They are the ones to seek out. Find a tutor. Join a study group. Students who do these things are most likely to stay in college and be successful. It does not diminish you in any way to seek assistance from your peers.

• Toastmasters International offers public speaking tips at http://www.toastmasters.org.
• See guidelines for speaking in class at http://www.school-for-champions.com/grades/speaking.htm.