Reading for College Success

In this course, You will “coach” your “team” of thinking skills to meet academic challenges. Through reading, writing, and math activities, you will develop critical thinking skills and test-taking strategies.

Major Concepts:

• Discerning the Main Idea
• Identifying Clues Within Texts
• Effective Summarization
• Note Taking Applications
• Choosing Your Note Taking Style
• Free Choice Reading
• Web 2.0 Skills
• Recognizing Organizational Patterns
• Decoding Signal Words
• Understanding Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Styles of Analysis
• Implications of Tone
• Recognizing Bias and Opinion
• Persuasive Language Tools
• Making an Inference
• Predictions, Questioning and Context
• Connotations and Allusions
• Hidden Hints in Writing
• Preparing for the CPT
• College Entrance Tests

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