Making Connections : Reading and Understanding College Textbooks
Making Connections : Reading and Understanding College Textbooks
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Making Connections : Reading and Understanding College Textbooks by Sheila Allen
Develop the critical reading skills you need to complete college assignments with MAKING CONNECTIONS. This textbook uses actual textbook chapters, research articles and literary pieces as reading material to help you hone your critical reading skills.
Part I: READING SKILLSUnit One: The Student?s Role as Learner. Unit Two: Vocabulary Skills: Context and Word Part Clues. 1. Understanding Textbook Vocabulary. Unit Three: Comprehension Skills: Understanding Passages and Graphics. 2. Finding Main Ideas. 3. Determining organizational Patterns of Paragraphs. 4. Reading and Interpreting Graphics. Unit Four: Critical Thinking Skills: Understanding an Author?s Intent. 5. Making Inferences. 6. Determining Facts and Opinions. 7. Reading and Answering Test Questions. Part II: APPLYNG STUDY/READING TECHNIQUES TO TEXTBOOKS. Unit Five: Four Textbooks. 8. Health: Personal Stress Management. 9. American History: The Furnace of Civil War. 10. Business: Human Resource Management and Motivation. 11. Psychology: Personality. Part III: PERIODICAL RESEARCH. Unit Six: Reading and Taking Notes from Periodicals. Health Articles. American History Articles. Business Articles. Psychology Articles. Appendix A: Answers to Practice Tests. Appendix B: Reading Essays about Literary Works. Appendix C: Selected Answers to Part I Exercises. Index.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781413002416 |
| ISBN 10 | 1413002412 |
| Title | Making Connections : Reading and Understanding College Textbooks |
| Author | Sheila Allen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Year published | 2004-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |