Includes bibliographical references and index

Active learning -- What is active learning? -- What is cognitive psychology? -- How does the brain screen messages? -- Is divided attention effective? -- Can tasks become automatic? -- Cognitive styles -- What is concentration? -- Poor concentration : causes and solutions -- Focusing on successful academic behaviors -- 2. Vocabulary -- Remembering new words -- Using context clues -- Understanding the structure of worlds -- Ten weekly vocabulary lessons -- Using a dictionary -- Word origins -- Using a glossary -- Using a thesaurus -- Using analogies -- Easily confused words -- Recognizing acronyms -- Recognizing transitional words -- 3. Reading and study strategies -- What is a study system? -- Why use a study system? -- Stage 1 : previewing -- Stage 2 : integrating knowledge while reading -- Stage 3 : recalling for self-testing -- 4. Main idea -- What is a main idea? -- Importance of prior knowledge in main idea -- Main idea strategies -- What is a topic? -- How do topics and main ideas differ? -- Questioning for the main idea -- What do details do? -- Stated and unstated main ideas -- Interpreting longer selections -- Summary writing : a main idea skill -- 5. Patterns of organization -- Textbook organization -- What do transitional words do? -- Patterns of organization in textbooks -- 6. Organizing textbook information -- The demands of college study -- Building knowledge networks -- Methods of organizing textbook information -- Annotating -- Notetaking -- Outlining -- Mapping -- 7. Inference -- What is an inference? --Connotation of words -- Figurative language -- Inferences from facts -- Implied meaning -- Prior knowledge and implied meaning -- Drawing conclusions -- 8. Point of vhttp://192.168.0.176:8084/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?frameworkcode=BKS#iew -- Is a textbook influenced by the author's point of view? -- What is the author's point of view? -- What is the reader's point of view? -- What is a fact and what is an opinion? -- What is the author's purpose -- What is the author's tone? -- Editorial cartoons -- 9. Critical thinking -- What is critical thinking? -- Applying skills to meet college goals -- Power of critical thinking -- Recognizing an argument -- Steps in critical thinking -- Inductive and deductive reasoning -- Creative and critical thinking -- 10. Graphic illustrations -- What graphics do -- 11. Rate flexibility -- Why is rate important? -- What is your reading rate? -- How fast should you read? --Techniques for faster reading -- Skimming -- Scanning -- 12. Test taking -- Can testwiseness help? -- Strategies for mental and physical awareness -- Strategies for standardized reading tests -- Recognizing the major question types -- Strategies for multiple-choice items -- Strategies for content area exams -- Locus of control -- Appendix 1. Ten weekly vocabulary lessons -- Appendix 2. ESL : making sense of figurative language and idioms -- Glossary.