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Transitions, 3/e
Barbara Fine Clouse

The Transition from Reading to Writing

Internet Exercises

Are you an active reader or a passive one? What's the difference? This site will help you clarify this issue: http://www.unb.ca/coned/wss/active.htm.

When you mark up a page in your texts, does it help you study? Do you find yourself marking everything sometimes? Avoid "yellow-page syndrome": http://www.csbsju.edu/academicadvising/help/underlin.html.

Do textbooks leave you exasperated from time to time? These sites will help you decode them and learn more efficiently: http://ccc.commnet.edu/faculty/~simonds/textbooks.htm, http://www.ulc.arizona.edu/online_materials/textbook_reading/.