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| Preface | |
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| Thematic Contents | |
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| To the Student | |
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| Academic Quick Start | |
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| Succeeding in College | |
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| Chapter Quick Start | |
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| Strategies for Success | |
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| Focus on Success | |
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| Manage Your Time | |
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| Organize a Writing and Study Area | |
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| Study Smarter | |
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| Manage Stress | |
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| Classroom Skills | |
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| Polish Your Academic Image | |
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| Demonstrate Academic Integrity | |
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| Communicate with Your Instructor | |
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| Listen Carefully and Critically | |
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| Ask and Answer Questions | |
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| Work with Classmates | |
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| Take Effective Notes in Class | |
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| Writing in College | |
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| Chapter Quick Start | |
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| Academic Writing: What to Expect | |
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| Expect Your Writing to Move from More Personal to Less Personal | |
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| Expect Your Writing to Take Different Forms | |
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| Expect to Use the Language of the Discipline | |
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| Expect to Use Standard American English | |
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| Expect to Use and Document Scholarly Sources | |
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| Expect to Collaborate with Classmates | |
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| Why Strive to Improve your Writing Skills? | |
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| Writing Skills Help in College and in Your Career | |
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| Writing Facilitates Learning and Recall | |
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| Writing Clarifies Your Thinking | |
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| Writing Helps You Solve Problems | |
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| Developing Strategies for Writing | |
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| Start with a Positive Attitude | |
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| Use your Course Syllabus | |
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| Use the Right Learning Tools | |
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| Use the College Writing Center | |
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| Keep a Writing Journal | |
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| Get the Most out of Writing Conferences | |
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| Assessing Your Learning Style | |
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| What Is Your Learning Style? | |
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| Learning Style Inventory | |
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| Interpreting Your Scores | |
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| A Word About Your Findings | |
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| How to Use Your Findings | |
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| Applying your Learning Style to your Writing | |
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| Reading and Writing about Text | |
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| Chapter Quick Start | |
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| Reading in College | |
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| Changing Some Misconceptions about Reading | |
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| A Guide to Active Reading | |
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| Preview before Reading | |
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| Read with a Purpose | |
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| Reading: Purse Snatching | |
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| Review after Reading | |
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| Understanding Difficult Text and Visuals | |
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| Draw a Graphic Organizer | |
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| Read Visuals | |
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| Responding to Text | |
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| A Guide to Responding to text | |
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| Summarize to Check Your Understanding | |
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| Link the Reading to Your Own Experiences | |
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| Analyze the Reading | |
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| Using Your Learning Style | |
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| How to Approach the Student Essays in this Book | |
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| How to Focus on Writing Features | |
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| Students Write | |
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| Reading: The Games We Play: Inequality in the Pro-Sports Workplace | |
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| Strategies for Writing Essays | |
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| Prewriting: How to Find and Focus Ideas | |
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| Chapter Quick Start | |
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| Choosing and Narrowing a Topic | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Narrowing a Topic | |
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| Thinking about Your Purpose, Audience, and Point of View | |
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| Determining Your Purpose | |
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| Considering Your Audience | |
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| Choosing a Point of View | |
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| Discovering Ideas to Write About | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Mapping | |
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| Brainstorming | |
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| Group Brainstorming | |
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| Questioning | |
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| Writing Assertions | |
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| Interviewing | |
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| Using the Patterns of Development | |
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| Visualizing or Sketching | |
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| Researching Your Topic | |
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| Students Write | |
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| Christine Lee���s Prewriting Strategie | |