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INTRODUCTION: A Guide to College Success
Keys to Success in College
Key #1 Set Goals and Monitor Them
Key #2 Get Organized
Key #3 Manage Your Time: Balancing School, Work, and Family
Key #4 Take Charge of Your Learning
Key #5 Get the Most Out of Your Textbooks
Key #6 Focus Your Attention and Avoid Distractions
Key #7 Take Class Notes
Key #8 Learn to Take tests
Key #9 How to be Successful in Your Reading-Writing Course
Key #10 How to be Successful Working with Classmates
PART I Getting Started
Chapter 1 The Reading Process: An Overview
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What are Active Reading and Writing?
Reading
Active Reading: How to Get Started
Preview Before Reading
Reading: The Dilemma of Anger: “Let it Out” or “Bottle It Up”? Carole Wade and Carol Tavris
Highlight and Annotate As You Read
Reading: Is Bottled water Safer Than Tap Water? Janice Thompson and Melinda Manore
Strengthen Your Comprehension and Recall
Read and Think About Visuals
Think Critically
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Respond A Professional Reading: Liking and Loving: Interpersonal Attraction, Saundra K. Ciccarelli and J. Noland White
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 2 The Writing Process: An Overview
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What is the Writing Process?
Writing
Understand What Writing Is and Is Not
Practical Advice About Writing
Five Steps in the Writing Process
Generate Ideas
Organize Ideas
Write Paragraphs
Write Essays
Write a First draft
Revise Drafts
Proofread
Consider Your Audience and Purpose
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Respond Student Essay: The Space In-Between, Santiago Quintana Garcia
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: What Makes a Movie Scary, Dorothy Hoffman
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 3 Vocabulary: Working with Words
Focusing on Reading and Writing
Why is Vocabulary Important?
Use a Dictionary Effectively
Synonyms and Antonyms
Understand Denotative and Connotative Language
Use Words with Multiple or Unusual Meanings
Understand Vocabulary in College Courses
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: The Power of Words, Beebe, Beebe, and Redmond
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 4 Vocabulary: Learning Unknown Words
Focusing on Reading and Writing
Why is Learning New Words Important?
Figure Out Unknown Words: A Strategy
Pronounce Unknown Words
Use Context Clues
Use Word Parts
Learn New Words
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Talking to Koko the Gorilla, Alex Hannaford
Self-Test Summary
PART II READING AND WRITING SENTENCES
Chapter 5 Complete Sentences Versus Sentence Fragments
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What is a Complete Sentence?
Writing
Identify Subjects and Predicates
Identify Sentence Fragments
Recognize and Correct Fragments Caused by Missing Subjects
Recognize and Correct Fragments Caused by Missing Verbs
Recognize and Correct Fragments Caused by Dependent Clauses
Reading
Understanding Sentences
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: NortenBo en Manhattan, Steven Doloff
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 6 Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What is Punctuation and Why is it Important to Use It Correctly?
Recognize and Correct Run-On Sentences
Recognize and Correct Comma Splices
Reading
Use Punctuation as a Guide to Reading
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: The Role of Sports in Our Lives,” John J. Macionis
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 7 Using Verbs Correctly
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What is a Verb?
Writing
Recognize Forms of the Verb
Understand Verb Tense: An Overview
Use the Simple Tenses
Use Irregular verbs Correctly
Understand Voice: Use Active Instead of Passive Voice
Avoid Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement
Reading
What Verbs Tell Readers
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: My Kid’s Father, Lekisha Roberson
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Scenes from A Service-Dog Graduation
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 8 Combining and Expanding Your Ideas
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What are Independent and Dependent Clauses?
Writing
Combine Ideas of Equal Importance
Combine Ideas of Unequal Importance
Write Compound-Complex Sentences
Reading
Identify Meaning Clues from Sentence Structure
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: Freedom to Buy Candy, Yuliya Seitkulova
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Saying “Adios” to Spanglish, Leticia Salais
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 9 Revising Confusing and Inconsistent Sentences
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What is a Confusing or Inconsistent Sentence?
Writing
Use Pronouns Clearly and Effectively
Avoid Shifts in Person, Number, and Verb Tense
Avoid Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Use Parallelism
Reading
Understand Difficult and Complicated Sentences
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: When Someday Finally Came, Dave Myers
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Computer Technology, Large Organizations, and the Assault on Privacy, John Macionis
Self-Test Summary
PART III READING AND WRITING PARAGRAHS
Chapter 10 Main Ideas and Topic Sentences
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What are Topics, Main Ideas, and Topic Sentence?
Reading
Understand General Versus Specific Ideas
Identify the Topic
Identify the Main Idea
Writing
Choose a Manageable Topic
Write Effective Topic Sentences
Revise Ineffective Topic Sentences
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: Decision Time, Alex Boyd
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: What is a Sustainable Food System?, John Salge Blake
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 11 Details, Implied Main Ideas, and Transitions
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What are Supporting Details, Implied Main Ideas, and Transitions?
Reading
Identify Supporting Details in Paragraphs
Identify Implied Main Ideas
Use Transitional Words and Phrases to Read Paragraphs
Writing
Choose Specific Details
Use Details to Support Your Topic Sentence
Arrange Details So They are Easy to Follow
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: A Korean Girl in Boston, Bogyeong Son
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Wireless Interference: The Health Risks, Christopher Ketcham
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 12 Patterns of Organization: Chronological Order, Narration, Process, and Description
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What are Patterns of Organization?
Reading and Writing Time Sequence: Chronological Order, Process, and Narration
What is Time Sequence?
Read Chronological Order and Process
Write Process Paragraphs
Write Narrative Paragraphs
Reading and Writing Description
What is Description?
Read Descriptive Paragraphs
Write Descriptive Paragraphs
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: A Trip to Disney World, Roan Rodriguez
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: My Documented Life, Jose Antonio Vargas
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 13 Patterns of Organization: Example, Cause and Effect, and Comparison and Contrast
Focusing on Reading and Writing
Why Use Patterns of Organization?
Reading and Writing Example
What is an Example?
Read Examples
Write Examples
Reading and Writing Cause and Effect
What is Cause and Effect?
Read Cause and Effect
Write Cause and Effect
Reading and Writing Comparison and Effect
What is Comparison and Contrast?
Read Comparison and Contrast
Write Comparison and Contrast
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: Twitter’s Appeal, Bryan Dube
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: The Benefits of Listening to Music, Steven Cornelius and Mary Natvig
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 14 Revision and Proofreading
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What are Revision and Proofreading?
Reading
Read Carefully and Critically for Revision
Writing
Determine How and When to Revise
Revise Ineffective Paragraphs
Use Idea Maps to Spot Revision Problems
Use Peer Review
Proofread for Correctness
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: The Event that Changed My Life, Loretta Scott
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Finding a Mate: Not the Same as it Used to Be, James M. Henslin
Self-Test Summary
PART IV READING AND WRITING ABOUT TEXT MATERIALS
Chapter 15 Understanding and Organizing Information
Focusing on Reading and Writing
Why Organize Information?
Reading
Read to Organize and Retain Information
Writing
Outline to Organize Information
Map to Discover Organization
Paraphrase to Restate Ideas of Others
Summarize to Condense Information
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Revise
Read and Respond A Student Essay: Facebook’s Influence on a Person’s Life, Elena Pineda
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Why Conserve Water, Andrew Parker
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 16 Reading and Thinking Critically
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What is Critical Reading?
Reading
How to Read Critically
Make Inferences
Identify the Author’s Purpose
Analyze the Author’s intended Audience
Distinguish Between Fact and Opinion
Recognize Bias
Writing
Think Critically When Writing
Using Inferences
Focusing on Your Purpose
Considering your Audience
Using Fact and Opinion
Expressing Bias
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Respond A Student Essay: One Year, Giovanny Guzman
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Harvesting Garlic for Less Than the Minimum W age, Tracie McMillan
Self-Test Summary
PART V AN INTRODUCTION TO ESSAY WRITING
Chapter 17 Planning, Drafting, and Revising Essays
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What is an Essay?
Writing
Plan Your Essay
Generating and Grouping Ideas for Your Thesis Statement
How to Group Ideas
Draft Your Essay
Writing Strong Thesis Statements
Supporting Your Thesis with Substantial Evidence
Making Connections Among Your Ideas Clear
Writing Your Introduction, Conclusion, and Title
Revise Your Essay
Problem #1: The Topic is too Broad
Problem #2: The Topic is too Narrow
Problem #3: The Thesis Statement Needs Revision
Problem #4: The Essay is Underdeveloped
Problem #5: The Essay is Disorganized
Using Maps to Guide Your Revision
Reading
Use Strategies for Reading Essays
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Respond A Student Essay: Students Should Not Work Long Hours, Alphea Bartley
Read and Respond A Professional Essay: A Step Beyond Human, Andy Greenberg
Self-Test Summary
Chapter 18 Using Sources When You Write
Focusing on Reading and Writing
What are Sources?
Reading
Locate Appropriate Sources
Record Information from Sources
Use Sources to Support Your Ideas
Writing
Document Sources
What is Plagiarism, and How Can You Avoid It?
Use the MLA Style to Document Sources
MLA In-text Citations
MLA Works Cited List
Integrating Reading and Writing
Read and Respond A Student Essay: Surveillance in America: it’s Not Paranoia If You’re Really Being Watched, Alaina Mayer
Self-Test Summary
PART VI REVIEWING THE BASICS: A BRIEF GRAMMAR HANDBOOK
A. Understanding the Parts of Speech
A.1 Nouns
A.2 Pronouns
A.3 Verbs
A.4 Adjectives
A.5 Adverbs
A.6 Conjunctions
A.7 Prepositions
A.8 Interjections
B. Understanding the Parts of Sentences
B.1 Subjects
B.2 Predicates
B.3 Complements
B.4 Basic Sentence Patterns
B.5 Expanding the Sentence with Adjectives and Adverbs
B.6 Expanding the Sentence with Phrases
B.7 Expanding the Sentence with Clauses
B.8 Basic Sentence Classifications
C. Writing Correct Sentences
C.1 Uses of Verb Tenses
C.2 Subjunctive Mood
C.3 Pronoun Case
C.4 Correct Adjective and Adverb Use
C.5 Sentence Variety
C.6 Redundancy and Wordiness
C.7 Diction
D. Using Punctuation Correctly
D.1 End Punctuation
D.2 Commas
D.3 Unnecessary Commas
D.4 Colons and Semicolons
D.5 Dashes, Parentheses, Hyphens, Apostrophes, Quotation Marks
E. Managing Mechanics and Spelling
E.1 Capitalization
E.2 Abbreviations
E.3 Hyphenation and Word Division
E.4 Numbers
E.5 Suggestions for Improving Spelling
E.6 Six Useful Spelling Rules
F. Commonly Misused Words and Phrases
G. Error Correction Exercises
PART VII ESL GUIDE FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS
A. Verbs
A.1 Active Voice Verb Tenses and Related Forms
A.2 Modal Auxiliaries
A.3 Nonaction Verbs
A.4 Passive Voice
B. Nouns
B.1 Plural Forms of Regular Nouns
B.2 Plural Forms of Irregular Nouns
B.3 Possessive Forms of Nouns
B.4 Gerunds and Infinitives
C. Pronouns
C.1 Personal Pronouns
C.2 Indefinite Pronouns
D. Adjectives and Adverbs
D.1 Some Grammatical Reminders
D.2 Relative (Adjective) Clauses
E. Transitional Words and Phrases
E.1 Transitions for Contrast
E.2 Transitions for Equality, Addition, and Similarity
E.3 Transitions for Time
E.4 Transitions for Reasons or Purpose
E.5 Transitions for Results
F. Conditional Statements and Subjunctive Verb Forms
F.1 Statements with “If” Clauses
F.2 Additional Uses of the Subjunctive
VII. Web Sites for Students
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