Overview

This book is intended to be a companion to the course EDE 10: English Composition Preparation, offered by Northern Virginia Community College. It is a shorter version of Becoming a Confident Reader, and I have selected readings that I will be using in the Fall 2023 semester.

The text focuses on the essential skills and practices needed upon entering the first semester of college composition, either with or without a co-requisite support course. Students need to be able to do the following:

1. Build and maintain resilience as a student.
2. Apply an effective reading process to college texts.
3. Summarize academic writing.
4. Respond to academic writing.
5. Make connections among texts and between academic writing and their ideas.
6. Conduct basic research.
7. Analyze the techniques authors use in their writing.
8. Evaluate the use of sources in a text.