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| Introduction: A Guide to College Success | |
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| Keys to Success in College | |
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| Key #1 Set Goals and Monitor Them | |
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| Key #2 Get Organized | |
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| Key #3 Manage Your Time: Balancing School, Work, and Family | |
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| Key #4 Take Charge of Your Learning | |
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| Key #5 Get the Most Out of Your Textbooks | |
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| Key #6 Focus Your Attention and Avoid Distractions | |
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| Key #7 Take Class Notes | |
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| Key #8 Learn to Take tests | |
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| Key #9 How to be Successful in Your Reading-Writing Course | |
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| Key #10 How to be Successful Working with Classmates | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| the Reading Process: An Overview | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What are Active Reading and Writing? | |
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| Reading | |
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| Active Reading: How to Get Started | |
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| Preview Before Reading | |
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| Reading: the Dilemma of Anger: "Let it Out" or "Bottle It Up"? | |
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| Highlight and Annotate As You Read | |
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| Reading: Is Bottled water Safer Than Tap Water? | |
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| Strengthen Your Comprehension and Recall | |
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| Read and Think About Visuals | |
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| Think Critically | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Reading: Liking and Loving: Interpersonal Attraction | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| the Writing Process: An Overview | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What is the Writing Process? | |
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| Writing | |
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| Understand What Writing Is and Is Not | |
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| Practical Advice About Writing | |
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| Five Steps in the Writing Process | |
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| Generate Ideas | |
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| Organize Ideas | |
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| Write Paragraphs | |
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| Write Essays | |
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| Write a First draft | |
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| Revise Drafts | |
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| Proofread | |
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| Consider Your Audience and Purpose | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Respond Student Essay: The Space In-Between, Santiago | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: What Makes a Movie Scary | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Vocabulary: Working with Words | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| Why is Vocabulary Important? | |
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| Use a Dictionary Effectively | |
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| Synonyms and Antonyms | |
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| Understand Denotative and Connotative Language | |
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| Use Words with Multiple or Unusual Meanings | |
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| Understand Vocabulary in College Courses | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: The Power of Words, Beebe, Beebe, and Redmond | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Vocabulary: Learning Unknown Words | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| Why is Learning New Words Important? | |
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| Figure Out Unknown Words: A Strategy | |
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| Pronounce Unknown Words | |
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| Use Context Clues | |
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| Use Word Parts | |
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| Learn New Words | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Talking to Koko the Gorilla | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Reading And Writing Sentences | |
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| Complete Sentences Versus Sentence Fragments | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What is a Complete Sentence? | |
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| Writing | |
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| Identify Subjects and Predicates | |
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| Identify Sentence Fragments | |
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| Recognize and Correct Fragments Caused by Missing Subjects | |
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| Recognize and Correct Fragments Caused by Missing Verbs | |
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| Recognize and Correct Fragments Caused by Dependent Clauses | |
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| Reading | |
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| Understanding Sentences | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: NortenBo en Manhattan | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What is Punctuation and Why is it Important to Use It Correctly? | |
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| Recognize and Correct Run-On Sentences | |
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| Recognize and Correct Comma Splices | |
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| Reading | |
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| Use Punctuation as a Guide to Reading | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: The Role of Sports in Our Lives | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Using Verbs Correctly | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What is a Verb? | |
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| Writing | |
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| Recognize Forms of the Verb | |
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| Understand Verb Tense: An Overview | |
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| Use the Simple Tenses | |
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| Use Irregular verbs Correctly | |
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| Understand Voice: Use Active Instead of Passive Voice | |
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| Avoid Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Reading | |
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| What Verbs Tell Readers | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: My Kid's Father | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Scenes from A Service-Dog Graduation | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Combining and Expanding Your Ideas | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What are Independent and Dependent Clauses? | |
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| Writing | |
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| Combine Ideas of Equal Importance | |
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| Combine Ideas of Unequal Importance | |
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| Write Compound-Complex Sentences | |
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| Reading | |
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| Identify Meaning Clues from Sentence Structure | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: Freedom to Buy Candy | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Saying "Adios" to Spanglish | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Revising Confusing and Inconsistent Sentences | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What is a Confusing or Inconsistent Sentence? | |
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| Writing | |
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| Use Pronouns Clearly and Effectively | |
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| Avoid Shifts in Person, Number, and Verb Tense | |
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| Avoid Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Use Parallelism | |
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| Reading | |
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| Understand Difficult and Complicated Sentences | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: When Someday Finally Came | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Computer Technology, Large Organizations, and the Assault on Privacy | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Reading And Writing Paragrahs | |
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| Main Ideas and Topic Sentences | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What are Topics, Main Ideas, and Topic Sentence? | |
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| Reading | |
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| Understand General Versus Specific Ideas | |
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| Identify the Topic | |
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| Identify the Main Idea | |
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| Writing | |
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| Choose a Manageable Topic | |
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| Write Effective Topic Sentences | |
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| Revise Ineffective Topic Sentences | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: Decision Time | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: What is a Sustainable Food System? | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Details, Implied Main Ideas, and Transitions | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What are Supporting Details, Implied Main Ideas, and Transitions? | |
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| Reading | |
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| Identify Supporting Details in Paragraphs | |
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| Identify Implied Main Ideas | |
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| Use Transitional Words and Phrases to Read Paragraphs | |
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| Writing | |
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| Choose Specific Details | |
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| Use Details to Support Your Topic Sentence | |
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| Arrange Details So They are Easy to Follow | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: A Korean Girl in Boston | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Wireless Interference: the Health Risks | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Patterns of Organization: Chronological Order, Narration, Process, and Description | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What are Patterns of Organization? | |
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| Reading and Writing Time Sequence: Chronological Order, Process, and Narration | |
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| What is Time Sequence? | |
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| Read Chronological Order and Process | |
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| Write Process Paragraphs | |
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| Write Narrative Paragraphs | |
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| Reading and Writing Description | |
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| What is Description? | |
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| Read Descriptive Paragraphs | |
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| Write Descriptive Paragraphs | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: A Trip to Disney World | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: My Documented Life | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Patterns of Organization: Example, Cause and Effect, and Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| Why Use Patterns of Organization? | |
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| Reading and Writing Example | |
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| What is an Example? | |
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| Read Examples | |
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| Write Examples | |
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| Reading and Writing Cause and Effect | |
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| What is Cause and Effect? | |
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| Read Cause and Effect | |
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| Write Cause and Effect | |
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| Reading and Writing Comparison and Effect | |
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| What is Comparison and Contrast? | |
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| Read Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Write Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: Twitter's Appeal | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: The Benefits of Listening to Music | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Revision and Proofreading | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What are Revision and Proofreading? | |
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| Reading | |
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| Read Carefully and Critically for Revision | |
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| Writing | |
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| Determine How and When to Revise | |
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| Revise Ineffective Paragraphs | |
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| Use Idea Maps to Spot Revision Problems | |
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| Use Peer Review | |
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| Proofread for Correctness | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: The Event that Changed My Life | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Finding a Mate: Not the Same as it Used to Be | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Reading And Writing About Text Materials | |
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| Understanding and Organizing Information | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| Why Organize Information? | |
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| Reading | |
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| Read to Organize and Retain Information | |
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| Writing | |
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| Outline to Organize Information | |
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| Map to Discover Organization | |
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| Paraphrase to Restate Ideas of Others | |
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| Summarize to Condense Information | |
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| Integrating Reading and Writing | |
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| Read and Revise | |
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| Read and Respond A Student Essay: Facebook's Influence on a Person's Life | |
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| Read and Respond A Professional Essay: Why Conserve Water | |
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| Self-Test Summary | |
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| Reading and Thinking Critically | |
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| Focusing on Reading and Writing | |
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| What is Critical Reading? | |
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| Reading | |
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| How to Read Critically | |
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| Make Inferences | |
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| Identify the Author's Purpose | |
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| Analyze the Author's intended Audience | |