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The Hub

Second  Edition©2023  Peter Adams

About

Peter Adams’ The Hub helps you develop the skills you need to succeed in all of your college courses, with coverage of reading, writing, thinking, and noncognitive skills (like study skills, time management, and feeling college ready). Anyone asking "How is college writing relevant to my life?" will find answers on almost every page.

Table of Contents

Part P: Reading/Writing Projects
Project 1: The Marshmallow Test
Project 2: Choosing a Career
Project 3: Individual and Community
Project 4: Truth, Lies, and Fake News
Project 5: Immigration
Project 6: In Pursuit of Happiness
Project 7: Disability
 
Part W: Writing
W1 The Writing Process
W2 Preparing to Write
W3 Finding a Focus
W4 Developing Ideas
W5 Organizing Ideas
W6 Using Language Powerfully
W7 Thinking While Writing
W8 Revising
W9 Editing
W10 Titles, Introductions, and Conclusions
W 11 Writing Strategies
 
Part R: Reading
R1 Active Reading
R2 Reading Strategies
R3 Critical Reading
 
Part D: Research and Documentation
D1 Research
D2 MLA Documentation
D3 APA Documentation
 
Part B: Balancing School, Work, and Life
B1 Getting Acquainted
B2 Life Issues
B3  Staying the Course
B4 College Knowledge

Peter Adams

Peter Adams is the creator of and nation's leading expert on the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) and a passionate advocate for updating the current structure of developmental education in America to help more students succeed. As a teacher at the Community College of Baltimore County, Peter saw the opportunity to improve success rates among students placed in developmental writing courses, and so he created and developed the ALP model to meet that need. Peter spent eight years teaching ALP and an additional seven years training faculty across the country on how to implement the ALP model. As of 2017, more than 300 schools in 20 states offer sections of ALP and 7 states have adopted the model statewide. Through his deep experience with the course, its students, and its instructors, Adams truly understands the challenges of this course and is uniquely qualified to author The Hub. Peter's professional experience includes tenure with the editorial board of the Journal of Basic Writing and leadership positions with the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). His two influential articles "Basic Writing Revisited" (Journal of Basic Writing, 1993) and "The Accelerated Learning Program: Throwing Open the Gates" (Journal of Basic Writing, 2009) were both major catalysts for the nationwide movement toward mainstreaming basic writers.