Essential Reading Skills [Paperback]

• More resources have been added to aid students' college readiness:
• A new Preparing for College Textbook Reading section at the beginning of the text offers students practical help with important study skills.
• The new Preparing for College Textbook Reading learning aid in every chapter uses examples from college textbooks to demonstrate how specific textbook elements relate to the chapter content.
• A new chapter, Chapter 2: Reading and Learning from Textbooks, teaches students the skills they need to effectively read college textbooks, including the SQ3R learning-study method, highlighting, outlining, mapping, and summarizing.
• The new College Mini-Reader contains six readings representative of the academic disciplines most students study.
• The new Test Your Mastery of Learning Goals interactive chapter summary tests students to see how well they have learned and remembered the most important information in the chapter.
• Chapter 9, Reading and Thinking Critically, has a new section on how to evaluate the content, accuracy, and timeliness of Internet Sources. 

 

Essential Reading Skills focuses on the four essential skill areas for college-reading success (active reading and thinking, vocabulary development, literal and critical comprehension, and organizational emphasis) and improves students' reading through concise instruction, and extensive practice and testing. Each of the eleven chapters focuses on a specific reading and thinking skill, and contains exercises that get students applylƒ#