Becoming a Confident Reader
About This Book
1 Embracing the Successes of Learning – and the Challenges and Failures Learning Outcomes - Assess your mindset toward learning. - Identify ways to develop a growth mindset toward learning. - Reflect on how to use failure as a motivator. Learning in College Many of your college reading and writing tasks will be challenging. In fact, college is supposed to be hard, and difficult learning tasks require time. You will be reading and writing about entirely new concepts. The vocabulary will be challe
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | Language learning: reading skills, Writing and editing guides, Study and learning skills: general |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 34 |
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| Institution | Northern Virginia Community College |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 1 Embracing the Successes of Learning – and the Challenges and Failures
- 2 Facing Your Fears
- 3 Committing to Goals
- 4 Developing a Back-up Plan
- 5 Building a Support System
- 7 Previewing
- 9 Reflecting
- 10 What Is a Summary?
- 11 Preparing to Summarize
- 13 Evaluating a Summary
- 14 What Is a Response?
- 15 Preparing to Respond
- 16 Writing a Topic Sentence for a Response
- 18 Writing a Response
- 19 Evaluating a Response
- 22 Look Out, Email. Handwritten Letters Are Making a Comeback
- 23 To Navigate the Dangers of the Web, You Need Critical Thinking — but Also Cri
- 24 Out-of-context Photos Are a Powerful Low-tech Form of Misinformation
- 26 Additional Activities: The Changing Ways We Read and Write
- 28 I No Longer Grade My Students’ Work – and I Wish I Had Stopped Sooner
- 29 Does It Pay to Get a Double Major in College?
- 30 5 Drawbacks to Following Your Passion
- 31 Teaching in America’s Prisons Taught Me to Believe in Second Chances
- 32 Hip-hop Professor Looks to Open Doors with World’s First Peer-reviewed Rap Al
- 34 The Lifesaving Power of Gratitude (or, Why You Should Write That Thank You No
- 36 Why Does Experiencing ‘Flow’ Feel So Good? A Communication Scientist Explains
- 38 Don’t Tell Me to Despair about the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect
- 40 Additional Activities: Paths to Mental Health
- 41 US Climate Risks Are Rising – A Scientist Looks at the Dangers Her Children W
- 42 Cohousing Is Empowering People to Fight Back against a Global Housing Crisis
- 43 I Spoke to ‘Minimalists’ to Find out Why They Are Giving up Their Personal Po
- 44 Growing Up in a Kenyan Slum Taught Me the Real Value of Stuff
- 46 Enough Is Enough
- 47 Additional Activities: The Quest for a Sustainable World