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| Avoiding Plagiarism: | Identify effective strategies such as citing, paraphrasing, and summarizing to avoid plagiarism (intentional or unintentional) and its consequences. |
| Evaluating Online Sources: | Using five reliability criteria to evaluate online sources, determine whether a web source qualifies as valid and locate an additional source that meets the criteria. |
| Note Taking: | Take lecture notes effectively using the techniques of the Cornell Method. |
| Online Research: | Explore COC’s online databases and apply research skills by conducting a topic search in one of the library’s online databases. |
| Outlining Essays: | Identify the key components of an effective essay outline. Using a fact sheet provided on a specific topic, create a thesis and outline for an essay on this topic. |
| Outlining Readings: | Identify strategies to create detailed, organized outlines of textbook chapters. |
| Preparing for Finals: | Identify the resources available on campus and create a 2-week time management plan to complete end-of-the semester projects and assignments. |
| Reading Textbooks: | Identify effective reading strategies and apply them to increase comprehension of college texts. |
| Remembering What You Read: | Recognize the “reading coma” and how it undermines effective reading and studying. Use active reading strategies to avoid it in the future. |
| Stress Management: | Explore various coping strategies and develop a personal plan to manage stress more effectively. |
| Test-taking Strategies: | Explore your personal test-taking style. Distinguish between effective and ineffective test taking techniques and strategies for multiple choice and essay exams. |
| Time Management: | Evaluate a personal schedule and create an effective time-use plan that prioritizes goals. |
| Timed Writing: | Identify and apply the five steps involved in completing timed writing assignments successfully. |
