| Preface |
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| Part One Succeeding in College |
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College: New Demands and Expectations |
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Becoming an Active Learner |
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11 | (4) |
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15 | (3) |
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Becoming Familiar with Your Textbooks |
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18 | (5) |
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23 | (18) |
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Establishing Your Priorities |
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Analyzing Your Time Commitments |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (1) |
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Building Your Weekly Schedule |
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Electronic Management of Time |
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Time- Saving Tips for Students with Busy Schedules |
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Fighting the Tendency to Procrastinate |
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32 | (3) |
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35 | (6) |
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Principles of Learning and Memory |
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41 | (2) |
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How People Learn and Remember |
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43 | (6) |
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49 | (12) |
| Part Two Strategies for Active Learning |
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Prereading and Predicting |
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63 | (16) |
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63 | (9) |
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Discovering What You Already Know |
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72 | (2) |
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74 | (5) |
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Setting the Stage for Learning |
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79 | (18) |
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Establishing and Maintaining Concentration |
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80 | (8) |
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Analyzing Your Learning Style |
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88 | (9) |
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Focusing and Monitoring Your Learning |
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97 | (22) |
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Defining Your Purposes for Reading |
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97 | (6) |
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Choosing the Right Reading and Learning Strategies |
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103 | (5) |
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Checking Your Understanding |
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108 | (7) |
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Seeing How Well You're Learning |
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115 | (4) |
| Part Three Understanding Content |
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121 | (27) |
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Three Essential Elements of Paragraph |
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121 | (1) |
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How to Identify the Topic |
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122 | (7) |
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How to Find the Main Idea |
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129 | (1) |
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Where to Find the Topic Sentence |
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129 | (5) |
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134 | (7) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (6) |
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Following Thought Patterns |
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148 | (34) |
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The Organization of Textbook Chapters |
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149 | (3) |
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The Structure of Articles and Essays |
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152 | (2) |
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Types of Supporting Information |
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154 | (6) |
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Recognizing Organizational Patterns |
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160 | (22) |
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Reading Graphics and Technical Writing |
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182 | (27) |
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182 | (2) |
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184 | (16) |
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Reading Technical Writing |
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200 | (9) |
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Critical Thinking and Reading |
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209 | (22) |
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209 | (5) |
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Asking Questions: The Key to Critical Thinking |
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214 | (10) |
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224 | (7) |
| Part Four Learning from Texts |
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231 | (52) |
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Textbook Highlighting and Marking |
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233 | (16) |
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The Problem of Textbook Review |
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233 | (1) |
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Why Highlighting and Marking Work |
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233 | (1) |
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How to Highlight Textbooks |
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234 | (1) |
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Aspects of Effective Highlighting |
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235 | (7) |
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Testing Your Highlighting |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (6) |
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Methods of Organizing Information |
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249 | (15) |
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249 | (4) |
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253 | (3) |
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Mapping: A Visual Means of Organizing Ideas |
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256 | (8) |
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Study and Review Strategies |
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264 | (19) |
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264 | (8) |
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272 | (3) |
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Updating and Revising the SQ3R System |
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275 | (2) |
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Adapting Your System for Different Academic Disciplines |
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277 | (6) |
| Part Five Classroom Performance Skills |
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283 | (78) |
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Lecture Note-Taking Techniques |
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285 | (18) |
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Why Note Taking Is Important |
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285 | (1) |
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Sharpening Your Listening Skills |
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285 | (2) |
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Preparing for a Lecture Class |
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287 | (1) |
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How to Take Lecture Notes |
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287 | (8) |
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295 | (2) |
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297 | (6) |
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Participating in Class Activities and Projects |
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303 | (10) |
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Asking and Answering Questions |
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303 | (1) |
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Participating in Class Discussions |
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304 | (3) |
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Working Effectively on Group Projects |
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307 | (2) |
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Preparing and Making Oral presentations |
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309 | (4) |
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313 | (13) |
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Organizing Your Study and Review |
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313 | (2) |
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Identifying What to Study |
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315 | (1) |
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Analyzing and Synthesizing Information |
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316 | (2) |
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318 | (8) |
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326 | (20) |
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General Suggestions for Taking Exams |
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326 | (2) |
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Hints for Taking Objective Exams |
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328 | (7) |
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Hints for Taking Standardized Tests |
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335 | (1) |
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Hints for Taking Essay Exams |
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335 | (7) |
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342 | (4) |
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Preparing Written Assignments and Research Papers |
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346 | (15) |
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Why Written Assignments Are Given |
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346 | (1) |
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Using a Computer to Write Papers |
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347 | (1) |
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Tupes of Written Assignments |
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347 | (1) |
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348 | (1) |
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Step in Writing a Research Paper |
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349 | (12) |
| Part Six Developing Reading Efficiency: Vocabulary and Reading Rate |
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361 | (50) |
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Expanding Your Vocabulary |
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363 | (12) |
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General Approaches to Vocabulary Expansion |
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364 | (2) |
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366 | (3) |
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Learning Specialized Terminology |
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369 | (3) |
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Systems of Learning Vocabulary |
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372 | (3) |
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Effective Use of Context and Word Parts |
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375 | (16) |
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375 | (8) |
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383 | (8) |
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Improving Your Reading Rate and Flexibility |
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391 | (20) |
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Building Your Reading Rate |
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391 | (5) |
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Developing Your Reading Flexibility |
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396 | (15) |
| Appendix A Sample Textbook Chapter ``Health, Stress, and Coping'' |
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411 | (36) |
| Appendix B Five Textbook Excerpts |
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Reading 1 ``Body Adornment'' |
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449 | (4) |
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Reading 2 ``Development of the Planet Earth'' |
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453 | (4) |
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Reading 3 ``Argumentation as a Social Process'' |
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457 | (4) |
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Reading 4 ``The Struggle for a Just Society'' |
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461 | (4) |
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Reading 5 ``Characteristics of Successful Small Business Ownership'' |
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465 | (8) |
| Answer Key |
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473 | (8) |
| References |
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481 | (2) |
| Endnotes |
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483 | (2) |
| Credits |
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485 | (2) |
| Index |
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