Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills / John Langan.
Par : Langan, John.
Collaborateur(s) : Atlantic Cape Community College.
Collection : TP Reading Series. Éditeur : West Berlin, NJ : Townsend Press, Inc., 2014Édition : 6th ed.Description :xii, 652 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN : 9781591944232 (Student Book.); 9781591944249 (Instructor's Ed.).Sujet(s) : Reading -- (Higher Education) | Reading Comprehension | College ReadersRessources en ligne : Publisher's Website (Student Copy).Type de document | Site actuel | Collection | Cote | Numéro de copie | Statut | Date d'échéance | Code à barres |
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Livres | CR Julien-Couture RC (Teaching) General Stacks | Non-fiction | L/R LAN (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (Instructor's Ed.) | Disponible | A026842 | |
Livres | CR Julien-Couture RC (Teaching) General Stacks | Non-fiction | L/R LAN (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (Student Book) | Disponible | A027130 |
"TEN STEPS TO IMPROVING COLLEGE READING SKILLS, Sixth Edition, will help you become a better reader and a stronger thinker. The book carefully explains and illustrates ten key reading skills that are widely recognized to be essential for literal and critical comprehension. It then provides numerous high-quality activities and high-interest reading selections to help you practice and master those skills." (Book Cover).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: To the Instructor
INTRODUCTION
1. How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker
2. Reading for Pleasure and Power
3. Some Quick Study Tips
PART ONE Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills
1. Vocabulary in Context Reading: Night Watch / Roy Popkin Mastery Tests
2. Main Ideas Reading: Here’s to Your Health / Joan Dunayer Mastery Tests
3. Supporting Details Reading: Child-Rearing Styles / Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds Mastery Tests
4. Implied Main Ideas Reading: Rowing the Bus / Paul Logan Mastery Tests
5. Relationships I Reading: Wonder in the Air / Jeff Gammage Mastery Tests
6. Relationships II Reading: Students in Shock / John Kellmayer and Alina Wyden Mastery Tests
7. Inferences Reading: Gender Inequality in the 21st Century / James M. Henslin Mastery Tests
8. Purpose and Tone Reading: The Scholarship Jacket / Marta Salinas Mastery Tests
9. Argument Reading: In Praise of the F Word / Mary Sherry Mastery Tests
10. Critical Reading Reading: The 2,000-Year-Old Wonder Drug / David B. Agus Mastery Tests
PART TWO Ten Reading Selections
1. The Yellow Ribbon / Pete Hamill
2. College Athletes Should be Paid / Ann Kaufman
3. Shame / Dick Gregory
4. The Bystander Effect / Dorothy Barkin
5. Growing Less Dumb / Eileen Brenoff
Coping with Nervousness / Rudolph F. Verderber
Compliance Techniques: Getting People to Say Yes / Shelley E. Taylor, Letitia Anne Peplau, and David O. Sears
8. Lizzie Borden / James Kirby Martin and others
9.Nonverbal Communication / Anthony F. Grasha
10. The Power Within / John Langan
PART THREE Relationships and Combined-Skills Tests 1. Relationships Tests
2. Combined Skill Tests
Appendixes
Pronunciation Guide
Writing Assignments
Limited Answer Key
High-Intermediate.
Reading level 8-12.
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