Making Connections Reading and Understanding College Textbooks

Name: Making Connections Reading and Understanding College Textbooks
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ISBN: 9781413002416

ISBN-10: 1413002412

ISBN-13: 9781413002416

Edition: 3rd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Sheila Allen

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MAKING CONNECTIONS teaches students the critical reading skills they need to complete college assignments by using actual textbook chapters, research articles and literary pieces as reading material.

Book details

List price: $138.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cengage Heinle
Publication date: 8/2/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English




Reading Skills



The Student+s Role as Learner



Vocabulary Skills: Context and Word Part Clues



Understanding Textbook Vocabulary



Comprehension Skills: Understanding Passages and Graphics



Finding Main Ideas



Determining organizational Patterns of Paragraphs



Reading and Interpreting Graphics



Critical Thinking Skills: Understanding an Author+s Intent



Making Inferences



Determining Facts and Opinions



Reading and Answering Test Questions



Applyng Study/Reading Techniques to Textbooks



Four Textbooks



Health: Personal Stress Management



American History: The Furnace of Civil War



Business: Human Resource Management and Motivation



Psychology: Personality



Periodical Research



Reading and Taking Notes from Periodicals


Health Articles


American History Articles


Business Articles


Psychology Articles



Answers to Practice Tests



Reading Essays about Literary Works



Selected Answers to Part I Exercises


Index