Building Strategies for College Reading: a Text With Thematic Reader + Myreadinglab

by Jane L. McGrath

This valuable book informs readers about the skills, strategies, attitudes, and habits associated with effective reading that are vital for success in every walk of life. Readers will see themselves as active participants in the reading process. Updated to include even more practice material–numerous excerpts, examples, and articles–Building Strategies for College Reading, 4/E stresses the importance of learning strategies to expand vocabulary. Nine chapters of this useful guide to effective reading are devoted to the development of skills and strategies. Topics reading as a process, building vocabulary, understanding main ideas, reading multi-paragraph selections and graphics, author's point of view, and organizing information. The selection of readings is divided into thematic sections, giving a context for understanding the skills presented; they ";First Amendment Freedoms,"; ";Today's Workpla

576 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008