Ten Steps To Building College Reading Skills
By: John Langan
Edition: Sixth edition.
Series: Townsend Press reading series; Townsend Press reading series
Publisher: Townsend Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: West Berlin, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9781591944645; 9781591944652
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Reading (Higher education); Reading comprehension; College readers; English language; Rhetoric
Other titles: 10 steps to building college reading skills
Table of contents: title: Ten steps to building college reading skills: Dictionary use; Vocabulary in context; Main ideas; Supporting details; Locations of main ideas; Relationships I; Relationships II; Inferences; Implied main ideas; The basics of argument; title: Ten reading selections: Winners, losers, or just kids? / D. Wrightman; The right words at the right time / Jeff Bezos; Eye contact / Ron Clark; Judge Judy speaks / Judge Judy Sheindlin; Read all about it / Fran DeBlasio; Ericka Hilario / Beth Johnson; How to make it in college, now that you're here / Brian O'Keeney; Cooling down our brains / Jason Peters; Dealing with feelings / Rudolph F. Verderber; Not so sweet / Alessa Staley; title: Active reading and Combined-Skills Tests: An introduction to active reading; Practice in active reading, combined-skills tests; title: Appendixes: Additional readings; Writing assignments.