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| (Note: Each chapter concludes with Cooperative Learning Activities and Reading Selection.)Skills for Success | |
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| Time Management | |
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| A Tale of Three Students | |
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| Getting Organized | |
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| Managing Stress | |
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| Concentration and Memory | |
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| Concentration Through Control of External Distractions | |
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| Concentration Through Control of Internal Distractions | |
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| Memory | |
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| Types of Memory | |
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| Guidelines for Remembering | |
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| Mnemonic Techniques | |
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| Learning Styles | |
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| Learning Style Inventory | |
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| Learning Style | |
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| Learning Styles as Related to Professors' Teaching Styles | |
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| Importance of Flexibility | |
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| Additional Factors Related to Learning Styles | |
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| Critical Reading and Thinking | |
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| Purposes for Writing | |
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| Factors to Help Determine Author's Purpose | |
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| Types of Evidence | |
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| Deterrents to Critical Thinking | |
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| Errors in Logical Reasoning | |
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| Mastery of College Textbooks | |
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| Main Ideas | |
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| How Topics and Main Ideas Differ | |
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| How to Locate Main Ideas | |
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| Supporting Details | |
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| Locating the Main Ideas in Longer Passages | |
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| Graphic Illustrations in Textbooks | |
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| Purposes of Graphic Illustrations | |
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| Six Guidelines for Reading Graphics | |
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| Types of Graphics | |
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| Organizational Patterns in Textbook Writing | |
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| Simple Listing | |
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| Order Sequence | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Problem and Solution | |
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| Classification | |
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| Definition | |
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| Example | |
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| Mixed Patterns | |
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| Vocabulary Acquisition Strategies | |
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| Context Clues | |
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| Structural Analysis and Derivatives | |
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| Etymology | |
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| Specific Vocabulary-Building Strategies | |
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| Using the Dictionary | |
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| Study Methods for Textbooks | |
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| Strategies for Processing Textbooks | |
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| Specific Study Methods | |
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| Using Prior Knowledge to Aid Study | |
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| Building Prerequisite Skills | |
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| Classroom Performance | |
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| Notetaking, Annotating, and Underlining | |
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| Notetaking | |
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| Underlining | |
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| Annotating | |
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| Combined Use of Cornell Notes, Underlining, and Annotation | |
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| Writing in College Courses | |
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| College Writing Demands | |
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| Types of Writing in College Classes | |
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| Stages of the Writing Process | |
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| Tips on Outlining | |
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| Resources to Help the Student Writer | |
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| Checklists | |
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| Test Taking Skills | |
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| Assessing the Real Problem | |
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| Test Preparation | |
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| Taking Tests | |
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| Multiple-Choice Tests | |
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| True-False Tests | |
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| Matching Tests | |
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| Short-Answer Tests | |
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| Problem-Solving Tests | |
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| Essay Tests | |
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| Open-Book Tests | |
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| Take-Home Tests | |
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| Assessing Performance After Taking a Test | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |