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The Word on College Reading and Writing

Monique Babin, Clackamas Community College

Carol Burnell, Clackamas Community College

Susan Pesznecker, Portland State University

Written by five college reading and writing instructors, this interactive, multimedia text draws from decades of experience teaching students who are entering the college reading and writing environment for the very first time. It includes examples, exercises, and definitions for just about every reading- and writing-related topic students will encounter in their college courses.

• Reading

• • Why It Matters: Reading
  • Introduction to Types of Reading Material
  • Characteristics of Texts, Part 1
  • Characteristics of Texts, Part 2
  • Characteristics of Texts, Part 3
  • Characteristics of Texts, Conclusion
  • Introduction to Reading Strategies
  • The Rhetorical Situation
  • Academic Reading Strategies
  • Active Academic Reading
  • Introduction to Specialized Reading Strategies
  • Online Reading Comprehension
  • How to Read Effectively in Math
  • How to Read Effectively in the Social Sciences
  • How to Read Effectively in the Sciences
  • Five-Step Approach for Reading Charts and Graphs
  • Introduction to Vocabulary
  • Strategies to Improve Your Vocabulary
  • Using Context Clues
  • The Relationship Between Reading and Vocabulary
  • Introduction to Thesis
  • Locating and Evaluating Thesis Statements
  • The Organizational Statement
  • Introduction to Supporting Claims
  • Types of Support
  • Supporting Claims
  • Introduction to Logic and Structure
  • Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
  • Rhetorical Modes
  • Diagramming and Evaluating Arguments
  • Evaluating Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
  • Logical Fallacies
  • Introduction to Summary Skills
  • How to Annotate
  • Paraphrasing
  • Quote Bombs
  • Summary Writing
  • Putting It Together: Reading

• Chapter 1: Being a College Student

• • Outcome: The Student Body and Learning Styles
  • Types of Students
  • Identifying and Considering Learning Styles

• Chapter 2: Reading in College

• • Outcome: Reading in College
  • General Reading Strategies
  • Forms of College Reading
  • Active Reading: Overview
  • Previewing
  • Active Reading via Annotation
  • Assignment: Active Reading in Action
  • Reviewing
  • Reading Academic Texts
  • Outcome: Summary Skills
  • Writing a Summary
  • Effective and Ineffective Summaries

• Chapter 3: Critical Reading and Thinking

• • Outcome: Critical Reading and Thinking
  • Outcome: Thesis
  • Supporting Claims
  • Evaluating Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
  • Outcome: Logic and Structure
  • Rhetorical Modes
  • Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
  • Diagramming and Evaluating Arguments
  • Logical Fallacies
  • Self Check: Critical Reading and Thinking

• Chapter 2: OUR READING and WRITING PROCESSES
• Reflection: An Introduction
• 2.A: Reflection Journal -- What Kind of Reader am I?
• 2.B: What is Critical Reading?
• 2.C What is the Connection between Critical Reading and Writing?
• 2.D: Strategies to Connect Reading and Writing

• Reading: Types of Reading Material

• • Introduction: Reading
  • Outcome: Types of Reading Material
  • Comparing Genres, Example 1
  • Comparing Genres, Example 2
  • Comparing Genres, Example 3
  • Comparing Genres, Example 4
  • Comparing Genres, Example 5
  • Comparing Genres, Conclusion
  • Self Check: Types of Reading

• Reading: Reading Strategies

• • Outcome: Reading Strategies
  • Rhetorical Context
  • Previewing
  • Active Reading
  • Summarizing
  • Reviewing
  • Self Check: Reading Strategies

• Reading: Specialized Reading Strategies

• • Outcome: Specialized Reading Strategies
  • Online Reading Tips
  • How to Read Effectively in the Sciences
  • How to Read Effectively in the Social Sciences
  • How to Read Effectively in Math
  • Reading Tables and Graphs
  • Self Check: Specialized Reading Strategies

• Reading: Vocabulary

• • Outcome: Vocabulary
  • Context Clues
  • Structural Analysis
  • Using Reference Tools
  • How to Increase Your Vocabulary
  • Self Check: Vocabulary

• Reading: Thesis

• • Outcome: Thesis
  • Explicit Versus Implicit Thesis Statements
  • Thesis and Topic Sentences
  • Self Check: Thesis

• Reading: Supporting Claims

• • Outcome: Supporting Claims
  • Point, Illustration, Explanation
  • Logos, Ethos, Pathos
  • Self Check: Supporting Claims

• Reading: Logic and Structure

• • An Overview of the Rhetorical Modes
  • Organizational Patterns
  • Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
  • Logical Fallacies
  • Self Check: Logic and Structure
  • Logic and Structure

• Reading: Summary Skills

• • Outcome: Summary Skills
  • Annotation
  • Paraphrasing a Thesis Statement
  • Using Quotations in a Summary
  • Summarizing Main Ideas and Details
  • Self Check: Summary Skills
  • Conclusion: Critical Reading

• Success Skills

• • Introduction to Success Skills
  • Habits for Success
  • Critical Thinking
  • Time Management
  • Writing in College
  • Computer-Based Writing
  • Conclusion to Success Skills

• Reading: Types of Reading Material

• • Introduction to Reading
  • Outcome: Types of Reading Material
  • Characteristics of Texts, Part 1
  • Characteristics of Texts, Part 2
  • Characteristics of Texts, Part 3
  • Characteristics of Texts, Conclusion
  • Self Check: Types of Writing

• Reading: Reading Strategies

• • Outcome: Reading Strategies
  • The Rhetorical Situation
  • Academic Reading Strategies
  • Self Check: Reading Strategies

• Reading: Specialized Reading Strategies

• • Outcome: Specialized Reading Strategies
  • Online Reading Comprehension
  • How to Read Effectively in Math
  • How to Read Effectively in the Social Sciences
  • How to Read Effectively in the Sciences
  • 5 Step Approach for Reading Charts and Graphs
  • Self Check: Specialized Reading Strategies

• Reading: Vocabulary

• • Outcome: Vocabulary
  • Strategies to Improve Your Vocabulary
  • Using Context Clues
  • The Relationship Between Reading and Vocabulary
  • Self Check: Vocabulary

• Reading: Thesis

• • Outcome: Thesis
  • Locating and Evaluating Thesis Statements
  • The Organizational Statement
  • Self Check: Thesis

• Reading: Logic and Structure

• • Outcome: Logic and Structure
  • Rhetorical Modes
  • Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
  • Diagramming and Evaluating Arguments
  • Logical Fallacies
  • Evaluating Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
  • Self Check: Logic and Structure

• Reading: Supporting Claims

• • Outcome: Supporting Claims
  • Types of Support
  • Supporting Claims
  • Self Check: Supporting Claims

• Reading: Summary Skills

• • Outcome: Summary Skills
  • How to Annotate
  • Paraphrasing
  • Quote Bombs
  • Summary Writing
  • Self Check: Summary Skills
  • Conclusion to Reading