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Guide to College Reading (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card), 8th Edition

By Kathleen T. McWhorter

ISBN-10: 0-205-72796-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-205-72796-4What's this?

Published by Longman

Pub. Date: Nov 18, 2008

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Designed for use in the first level reading course, Guide to College Reading focuses on reading comprehension, vocabulary improvement, and textbook reading while addressing the learning characteristics, attitudes, and motivational levels to equip students with the skills and thinking processes they need to handle the diverse reading demands of college courses

Table of Contents

How Do You READ? 

Chapter 1: Successful Attitudes Toward Reading and Learning

 

Part One: Vocabulary: The Key to Meaning 

Chapter 2:  Using Context Clues 

Chapter 3:  Learning Word Parts

Chapter 4:  Learning New Words

 

Part Two: Comprehension Skills

Chapter 5:  Reading as Thinking 

Chapter 6:  Understanding Paragraphs: Topics and Main Ideas 

Chapter 7:  Understanding Paragraphs: Supporting Details and Transitions 

Chapter 8:  Following the Author’s Thought Patterns 

 

Part Three: Textbook Reading Skills

Chapter 9:  Reading Textbook Chapters 

Chapter 10: Reading Graphic and Electronic Sources 

Chapter 11: Organizing and Remembering Information

 

Part Four: Critical Reading 

Chapter 12: Interpreting the Writer’s Message and Purpose

Chapter 13: Evaluating: Asking Critical Questions

 

Part Five: A Fiction Minireader

 

Part Six: A Contemporary Issues Minireader 

 

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