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Introduction
1. Academic Reading Skills
2. Previewing a text
3. The PQRST Method
4. Adjusting reading strategies to purpose
5. Synthesis of Ideas
6. Lexical Chunks or Collocations
7. Making Inferences
8. Understanding the use of verb tenses in writing
9. Claims and Evidence
10. Instructor and Student Think-Alouds
11. Detecting an author’s viewpoint or bias or emphasis
12. Understanding text organization (MAYBE)
13. Visual information in charts, graphs, and photos
14. What is plagiarism?
15. Introduction to Paraphrasing
16. Paraphrasing in Summaries
17. The Importance of Note-Taking Skills
18. Intensive Reading for Main Ideas and Details
19. Digital Annotations: Interacting with the Text Effectively
20. The Blank Sheet Method
21. Double Entry Note-Taking
22. Color-Coding a Summary Article
23. Outlining
24. Summarizing and Generative AI
25. Purpose, Subtopics, and Main Ideas in Summaries
26. Understanding Paragraph Development
27. Formal Tone in Academic Writing
28. Attribution Verbs in Summaries
29. Academic Writing Tips
30. Reporting Verbs
31. Fundamentals of Academic Summaries
32. Global Summary Writing
33. Selective Summary Writing
34. Integrative Summary Writing
35. Transition Words
36. Writing Formal Definitions
37. Tackling Unfamiliar Vocabulary
38. Lexical Roots, Affixes, and Word Families
39. Relational Affixes
40. Numerical Affixes
41. Negative Affixes
42. Academic Affixes
43. Recording Vocabulary
44. Word Roots and Affixes (to be deleted after handouts are updated)
45. Paragraph Basics
46. Response Writing
47. Essay Exams
48. Two Types of Essay Exam Questions
49. Preparing for and Taking an Essay Exam
Appendix
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