Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students in Prison
About This Book
Why Reading in a College Writing Textbook? This text is designed for a college writing course, so why talk about reading? Here’s the short answer: Reading and writing are integrally connected, and you will be doing a lot of both in college, probably at a more advanced level than in the past. You may also be expected to use texts in more sophisticated ways. You’ve been reading for a long time, and you have lots of practice at it. Over many years of schooling, you have learned how to identify main
| Category | humanities |
|---|---|
| Subject | Writing and editing guides, , Language learning: reading skills |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 13 |
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| Price | |
| Institution | Adams State University |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
Chapters
- Why Reading in a College Writing Textbook?
- Creating an Optimal Setting for Reading
- Examining Sample Assignment 2: Position Paper
- Treating Complex Tasks as Intellectual Work: Why?
- Prewriting 1: Understanding the Task
- Prewriting 2: Generating Ideas
- Evaluating Sources
- 2 Sentence Variety
- 7 Editing Strategies
- 10 Identifying Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices
- 12 Checking Adjectives and Adverbs
- 13 Identifying Clarity Issues
- 15 Identifying Punctuation Problems