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Preface | |
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Getting Into A Textbook State of Mind | |
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Learn How to Develop and Maintain Concentration | |
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Preview Your Assignments | |
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Use the Web for Background Knowledge | |
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Read Strategically | |
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Make Connections Between General and Specific Sentences | |
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Making Marginal Notes The Reading Paraphrase Versus the Writing Paraphrase | |
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Learning the Language of Textbooks | |
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Rounding Up the Keys | |
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Ten Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Digging Deeper: Muscle Reading | |
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Reviewing the Key Points | |
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Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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More On Words and Meanings | |
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Using Context Clues Restatement Clues Contrast Clues Example Clues General Knowledge Clues | |
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Breaking Words into Part s | |
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Rounding Up the Keys | |
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Digging Deeper: New Words Needed | |
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Reviewing the Key Points | |
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Using Context Clues | |
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Using Context Clues | |
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Using Word Part s and Context Clues | |
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Using Word Part s and Context Clues | |
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Using Word Part s and Context Clues | |
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Using Word Part s and Context Clues | |
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From Topics to Main Ideas | |
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What's the Topic Phrasing the Topic Inferring the Topic | |
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What's the Main Idea | |
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Looking for Topic Sentences Is the Topic Sentence First or Second? | |
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Transitions and Topic Sentences in Second Position | |
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Testing Your Topic Sentence | |
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Rounding Up the Keys | |
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Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Digging Deeper: Life Lessons from the Family Dog | |
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Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
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Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
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Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
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Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
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Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
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Paraphrasing | |
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Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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More on Topic Sentences | |
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Topic Sentences in Third Place | |
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Topic Sentences Closer to the Middle | |
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Topic Sentences at the End | |
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Get into the Habit of Paraphrasing Inaccurate Paraphrasing Why Paraphrasing Works | |
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Rounding Up the Keys | |
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Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Digging Deeper: Family Ties | |
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Reviewing the Key Points | |
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Recognizing Topic Sentences | |
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Recognizing Topic Sentences | |
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Recognizing Topic Sentences | |
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Recognizing Topic Sentences | |
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Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Working Together: Topic Sentences and Supporting Details | |
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The Function of Supporting Details Supporting Details Clarify, Explain, and Convince | |
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Major and Minor Details Major Details Minor Details Evaluating Minor Details | |
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Clues to Major Details in Topic Sentences | |
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Topic Sentences, Transitions, and Major Details | |
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Paraphrasing and Note-Taking | |
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Rounding Up the Keys | |
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Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Digging Deeper: Killer Waves | |
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Reviewing the Key Points | |
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Recognizing Supporting Details | |
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Recognizing Supporting Details | |
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Taking Notes on Paragraphs | |
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Understanding Major and Minor Details | |
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Recognizing Major and Minor Details | |
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Writing Summaries | |
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Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Drawing Inferences About Implied Main Ideas | |
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Inferring Main Ideas | |
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Effective and Ineffective Inferences Avoiding a Communication Breakdown | |
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Allusions and Inferences | |
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Rounding Up the Keys | |
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Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Digging Deeper | |
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Reviewing the Key Points | |
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Identifying the Implied Main Idea | |
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Identifying the Implied Main Idea | |
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Identifying the Implied Main Idea | |
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Inferring the Implied Main Idea | |
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Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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Time Order Process Sequence of Dates and Events | |
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Simple Listing | |
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Definition | |
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Cause and Effect | |
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Comparison and Contrast | |
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Classification | |
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Rounding Up the Keys | |
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Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Digging Deeper: The Origins of Cinco de Mayo | |
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Test 1 | |
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Patterns and Topic Sentences | |
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Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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Developing a Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Mixing and Matching Patterns | |
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Pure Versus Mixed Patterns | |
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Combining Patterns in Longer Readings Patterns and the Implied Main Idea Deciding What's Important | |
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Common Combinations | |
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Rounding Up the Keys | |
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Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Digging Deeper | |
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Reviewing the Key Points | |
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Recognizing Patterns in Paragraphs | |
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Recognizing Patterns in Paragraphs | |
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Recognizing Patterns in Paragraphs | |
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Recognizing Mixed Patterns in Longer Readings | |
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Recognizing Mixed Patterns in Longer Readings | |
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Recognizing Mixed Patterns in Longer Readings | |
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Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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From Comprehension to Critical Reading | |
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Informative Versus Persuasive Writing Characteristics of Informative Writing | |
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Characteristics of Persuasive Writing | |
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When Bias Goes Overboard | |
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Rounding Up the Key Points | |
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Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Digging Deeper | |
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Reviewing the Key Points | |
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Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion | |
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Fact, Opinion, or Both | |
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Recognizing Tone and Purpose | |
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Evaluating Bias | |
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Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
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Combining Your Skills | |
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The Seven-Day Antiprocrastination Plan | |
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Culture, Subcultures, and the Marketplace | |
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The Demise of Dating | |
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Good Grief | |
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Backlash: Women Bullying Women in the Workplace | |
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Nonjudgmental and Critical Listening | |
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What Makes a Hero? | |
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Taylor's Miracle | |
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Online Therapy | |
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Checking the Stats | |
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Appendix Dictionaries, Online and in Print | |
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Index | |