Contents

1. Introduction

2. Being a College Reader and Writer

3. What is Metacognition?

4. I. Being an Active Learner

   1. 1. How do you Activate Schema?

   2. 2. What is Notetaking?

   3. 3. How do I Annotate?

   4. 4. How do I make an Outline?

   5. 5. What is Mindmapping?

   6. 6. How do I Draw a Conclusion?

   7. 7. What is Inferencing?

5. II. Writing with Clarity

   1. 8. What are the Purposes for Reading and Writing?

   2. 9. How do I Write a Paragraph?

   3. 10. How do I Revise my Work?

   4. 11. What is Proofreading?

   5. 12. What are Some Ways to Increase Your Vocabulary?

   6. 13. What is Grammar?

   7. Nouns and Capitalization

   8. Pronouns

   9. Verbs

   10. Adjectives and Adverbs

   11. Prepositions

   12. Conjunctions and Interjections

   13. Basic Sentence Structure

   14. Common Sentence Errors

   15. End Punctuation

   16. Commas

   17. Apostrophes

   18. Quotation Marks, Italics, and Underlining

   19. Semicolons, Colons, Hyphens, Dashes, Parentheses, Ellipses, and Slashes

6. III. Reading, Writing, and Thinking

   1. 14. What is Critical Thinking?

   2. 15. What is Paraphrasing?

   3. 16. What is Summarizing?

   4. 17. What is Analyzing?

   5. 18. What is Synthesizing?

   6. 19. What is the Rhetorical Situation?

7. IV. Discovering Bias as a Reader and Writer

   1. 20. Are You Biased?

   2. 21. Is there Bias in What You Read?

   3. 22. How Do You Identify the Writer's Tone?

8. V. Organizing an Essay

   1. 23. What are the Steps to Writing an Essay?

   2. 24. How do I Write a Response Essay?

   3. 25. How do I Write a Narrative Essay?

   4. 26. How do I Write a Problem Solution Essay?

   5. 27. How do I Write a Synthesis Essay?

9. VI. MLA Formatting and Documentation

   1. 28. What is MLA Style?

   2. 29. What is a Works-Cited Page?

   3. 30. What Are In-Text Citations?