A Brief Guide to Academic Reading for College, 3rd ed.
Purpose:
To provide a concise explanation of important strategies to help you focus, comprehend, remember, explore, and critically appraise the information in texts for your courses. To help you learn well from your hardest texts. If you took one of our courses, to remind you of what was learned so you can continue to adapt and benefit from these strategies.
Target Audiences:
College students desiring an overview of the strategies for learning well from academic texts.; students in the disciplines who have hard texts to learn from; students who have taken one of our courses.
Description:
A Brief Guide to Academic Reading for College, 3rd ed. gives short explanations of 27 academic reading strategies. This pocketbook devotes one page to explain a strategy and sometimes two strategies per page. Each explanation includes its purpose, why do it, important information to know about it, and how to do it. Click here for a sample page To learn the strategies for the first time, the information in the handbook, Learn More and Read Faster: A Handbook of Advanced Reading Strategies for College Success, 4th edition, is highly recommended.
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Information:
ISBN:9781611650198. © 2022 30 pages. Saddleback binding. 5.5″ x 8.5″ Click here for ordering information.
A Brief Guide to College Reading, International edition
Purpose:
This pocketbook provides a reminder of the 11 essential strategies to improve your abilities to read academic texts. You probably learned these earlier from the Handbook, in a workshop, or in a face-to-face class. If not, you can follow the Self-Instructional Guide, #1.
Target Audiences:
Students who are taking the non-credit face-to-face course; students who have taken one of our courses; college students in the disciplines as recommended by professors or advisors.
Description:
A Brief Guide to Academic Reading for College, 3rd ed. reminds you of 28 academic reading strategies. Click here for a sample page. This pocketbook devotes only one page to explaining a strategy and sometimes two strategies per page. To learn the strategies for the first time, we highly recommend you study the information in the handbook, Learn More and Read Faster: A Handbook of Advanced Reading Strategies for College Success, 4th edition.
Click here to see Table of Contents for the pocketbook.
Information:
ISBN:9781611661675 © 2022 17 pages. Order here.