Title:
College reading and study skills
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed
Publication Information:
Boston : Little, Brown, 1983
ISBN:
9780316564052
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Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Success Workshops Learn |
| Everything You Can in the First Week |
| Get the Most Out of Your Textbooks |
| Polish Your Academic Image |
| Participate in Class Strengthen |
| Your Concentration Stay Healthy and Relaxed |
| Work with Your Classmates Learn from Feedback |
| Establish Your Academic |
| Integrity Keep a Vocabulary Log |
| I Building a Foundation for College Success |
| 1 Setting Goals and Managing |
| Your Time Establishing |
| Your Goals and Priorities Analyzing |
| Your Time Commitments Building a Term Plan Building |
| Your Weekly Schedule Time-Saving Tips for Students with Busy |
| Schedules Fighting the Tendency to Procrastinate |
| Multimedia Activities |
| Setting Goals and Managing Your Time |
| 2 Learning Style and Learning |
| Strategies Analyzing |
| Your Learning Style Understanding |
| Your Instructors Teaching Styles Meeting |
| Your Instructors Expectations Developing Active |
| Learning Strategies Thinking Critically |
| Multimedia Activities |
| Learning Style and Learning Strategies |
| 3 Understanding How Learning and Memory Work |
| Forgetting An Overview of the Learning and Memory Process |
| Original Learning |
| When to Review How to review Multimedia Activities |
| Understanding How Learning and Memory Work |
| 4 Taking Notes in Class Sharpening |
| Your Listening Skills |
| Preparing for a Lecture Class |
| How to Take Lecture Notes |
| How to Edit Your Notes |
| How to Study Your Notes Multimedia Activities |
| Taking Notes in Class |
| II Reading Textbooks and Assignments |
| 5 Active Reading Strategies |
| Prereading and Predicting Discovering |
| What You Already Know Defining |
| Your Purposes for Reading Checking |
| Your Comprehension Strengthening |
| Your Comprehension Multimedia Activities |
| Active Reading Strategies |
| 6 Understanding Paragraphs Three Essential |
| Elements of a Paragraph |
| How to Identify the Topic |
| How to Find the Main Idea |
| Where to Find the Topic Sentence |
| Recognizing Details Transitions |
| Unstated Main Ideas Multimedia Activities |
| Understanding Paragraphs |
| 7 Following Thought Patterns |
| The Organization of Textbook Chapters |
| The Structure of Articles and Essays |
| Types of Supporting Information |
| Recognizing Organizational Patterns Multimedia Activities |
| Following Thought Patterns |
| 8 Reading Graphics and Technical Writing |
| Reading Graphics Types of Graphics Reading |
| Technical Writing Multimedia Activities |
| Reading Graphs and Technical Writing |
| 9 Reading and evaluating Electronic Sources |
| How to Locate Electronic Sources on the Web Evaluating |
| Internet Sources |
| Why Electronic Text Requires |
| New Reading Strategies |
| Developing New Ways of Thinking and Reading |
| Avoiding Cyberplagiarism When |
| Reading and Conducting |
| Research on the Web Multimedia Activities |
| Reading and Evaluating Electronic Sources |
| III Critical Reading and Thinking |
| 10 Evaluating the Authors Message |
| Make Inferences as You Read |
| Evaluate the Data and Evidence |
| Evaluate the Source |
| Examine the Authors Qualifications |
| Distinguish Between Fact or Opinion |
| Identify the Authors Purpose |
| Be Alert for Bias |
| Analyze the Authors Tone |
| Evaluate the Data and Evidence |
| Analyze Arguments Multimedia Activities |
| Critical Thinking and Reading |
| 11 Evaluating the Authors techniques |
| Pay Attention to Connotative Language |
| Examine Figurative Language |
| Watch for Missing Information |
| Be Alert for Generalizations Examine the Authors |
| Assumptions Watch for Manipulative Language |
| IV Developing your Vocabulary |
