Reading:

Reading critically
Complete this form to summarize, review and study your reading assignment...

Prereading strategies
What you bring to the printed page will affect how you understand what you read...

SQ3R reading method
SQ3R is a reading strategy formed from its letters: Survey! Question! Read! Recite! Review!

KWL reading method
Know | Want to know | Learned (KWL) is intended to be an exercise for a study group or class that can guide you in reading and understanding a text...

Taking notes from a text book; marking & underlining
Read a section of your text that you consider "manageable" but make no entries...

Reading difficult material
Reading difficult material can be a matter of concentration or of simply organizing the challenge into steps...

Interpretive reading
Basically the reader is sharing an interpretation of an author with an audience, literally read and not memorized...

Reading essays
This excellent process can be applied to books, chapters in books, articles, and all manner of reading...

Reading fiction
Many types of fiction give us great reading pleasure...

Fiction: narrators and characters
An exercise in narrator types or point of view in fiction: First person | Second person | Third person | Limited | Omniscient

Speed and comprehension
Each type of reading has a different rate; an exciting novel is a quicker read than a text in biology...

Research

Writing research papers
Set the Stage; State the Problem...

Researching on the Internet
How do I search the Internet? Narrow your topic and its description; pull out key words and categories...

Evaluating website content
The Problem: The Internet is a relatively new and untested information and communication medium...

Organizing research with computers and avoiding plagiarism
This Guide is intended to help you avoid accidental plagiarizing...

Researching with note cards
When it comes to organizing information for a term paper or even a short two or three page paper, the "Note Card System" can be very useful...

Summarizing reading
An example of a summary form for an essay, book, chapter, etc.: (make out your own form to suit your needs!) This practice can help you document your studies, and also provide a reference for later work:

Summarizing research
Take a moment to summarize and print to keep perspective as you write. This printed summary provides you with a reference to keep you on track in your writing process: pre-writing, rough draft and revisions.

Citing websites
APA | AMA | Chicago | MLA | Turabian/Harvard