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Literacy for College Success
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Unit I: Always Be Prepared
1.1: Preparing to Learn
1.2 Organizing Your Space
1.3 Organizing Your Time
1.4 Preparing to Read
1.5 Strong Vs. Weak Summaries
1.6 Preparing to Write
1.7 Writing Good Solid Sentences
Unit 2: Comprehending and Communicating Clearly
2.1 Words Influence Literacy
2.2 What is the Point? Thesis and Main Ideas
2.3 Using a Main Idea to Organize Your Paragraph
Unit 3: Discover, Explore, and Reflect on a Text
3.1 Discover What a Text is Trying to Say
3.2 Explore the Ways the Text Affects You
3.3 Reflect on the Writing
3.4 Details, Providing Context, and Organization
3.5 Analysis of Literature: a Primer of Literary Devices
Unit 4: Subtleties of Reading and Writing - Author's Style
4.1 The Important Thing About Author’s Style
4.2 Inferences: Text + Experience
4.3 Creating Tone and Mood with Thoughtful Diction
4.4 Facts, Opinion, Basic Fallacies
4.5 Fact & Opinion in Reading
Unit 5: Literacy and Analysis
5.1 Understanding Literacy
5.2 Developing Cross-Disciplinary Literacy
5.3 Understanding Analysis and Persuasion
Works Cited
Course Resources
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