Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)

Chapter 1: Active Reading and Response to Texts

Catalyst Skills Links

Catalyst 2.0 is a Web-based, collaborative, assisted writing environment designed to help you improve your academic writing and research skills. The links below will help you as you work through the assignments in this chapter.

Study Skills Tutor will guide you to improve your study attitude, prepare a schedule, and learn new study strategies.

Avoiding Plagiarism provides guidelines and a sample paper with a quiz to test your understanding.

Visual Rhetoric Tutorial will give you an appreciation for and a basic understanding of the role images and design play in today's society. The tutorial will also provide strategies and hands-on techniques for applying basic principles of design to your own academic writing, whether in print or on the Web.

Quotation Mark Quiz tests your knowledge of correct quotation punctuation. The results can be emailed to your teacher.

Summarizing and Paraphrasing will give you more practice in distinguishing between these two actions as you read.