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Exercise Your College Reading Skills: Developing More Powerful Comprehension, 2/e

Janet Elder, Richland College

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Practice: Each chapter offers a brief overview and examples of a skill, followed by three sets of progressively challenging exercises from textbooks and other college-appropriate material. The practice sets provide students with a minimum of 30 items through which to exercise their reading skills. Three full chapters are devoted to the recursive practice of all skills taught to that point.
Flexibility: Exercise Your College Reading Skills can be adapted easily for use in courses with readers at different levels and courses that are informal or self-paced, or for students who may need additional out-of-class work. The first exercise set consists of simpler material and multiple-choice items. The second and third sets feature open-ended questions, with the third set having more challenging material. (Instructors also have access online to multiple-choice versions of the third exercise set.)
Compelling Selections: The excerpts and selections have been drawn from a broad cross-section of current, widely-used, well-written content area textbooks. These are enhanced by fiction and non-fiction literary material by writers such as Tillie Olsen, Camus, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Annie Dillard, Winston Churchill, Chief Joseph, Voltaire, and the poets Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, and Billy Collins.
Experience: The author, Janet Elder, is the author of a new text, Entryways into College Learning and Reading, and is also the co-author (with Joe Cortina) of the highly successful Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading, Fifth Edition, and New Worlds, Third Edition. Uniquely motivating and supportive
Clear, focused explanations
Scaffolded approach and terminology consistent with New Worlds and Opening Doors
In the Annotated Instructor’s Edition, the correct answer is explained, along with the reason each incorrect answer is incorrect.
A full chapter each on Interpreting Literature and Interpreting Figurative Language Lower-cost than most comparable texts

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