College reading skills and strategies
By: Audrey J. Roth, Sue Kahn.
Contributors: Kahn, Sue.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Reading (Higher education)
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Background for reading: what and how of reading; previewing for reading; title: Word skills: using context clues; reviewing dictionary skills; recongnizing word elements; title: Reading comprehension skills: finding the main idea; supporting the main idea; title: Critical comprehension skills: understanding an author's purpose; drawing conclusions; recognizing bias; title: Reading skills across the curriculum: developing specialized vocabularies; special skills for academic subjects; reading nonprose materials; title: Skills for studying and taking tests: special skills for studying; reading to take tests; title: Applying the learning, selected readings.