Part 1 Getting a Handle on College

1. How We Learn: Finding Out about Ourselves

Part 2 Discovering Meaning through Structure

2. Topics, Main Ideas, and Details

3. Determining an Author's Purpose

4. Transition Words and Patterns of Organization

Part 3 Interpreting What We Read

5. Inference

6. Figurative Language

7. Tone

Part 4 Recognizing Modes of Writing

8. Four Primary Modes of Writing

9. Modes of Organization

Part 5 Reading Critically

10. Fact and Opinion

11. Bias

12. Propaganda Techniques

13. Evaluating the Evidence

Part 6 Becoming Ready for Content-Area Classes

14. Scanning and Skimming

15. Organizing Textbook Information

Appendices A-1