Reading specialist Kathleen McWhorter understands that students are often lacking in the skills they need to succeed in the first-year writing course and need a text that doesn't assume they have mastered all the basics. "Successful College Writing "meets students where they are, offering extensive instruction in careful and critical reading, ...
Reading Across the Disciplines improves college students' reading and thinking skills through brief skill instruction and extensive practice structured around readings in various academic disciplines. Reading Across the Disciplines is organized into three parts. Part One, "Reading and Thinking in College," presents a brief skill introduction (in ...
Expressways for Writing Scenarios, a full-color, developmental paragraph-to-essay writing text, provides students with writing instruction for success in academic, workplace and everyday writing situations. Expressways for Writing Scenarios features an integrated writing-reading approach, step-by-step instruction, and a supportive tone. It teaches ...
Active Reading Skills, based on the premise students learn best by doing, teaches essential reading and thinking skills using concise instruction, guided practice, extensive application, and feedback. Each of the twelve chapters focuses on a specific reading skill and includes instruction, practice exercises, quizzes, and mastery tests. Because ...
Whether you're just starting to adjust to college demands, or simply struggling with your writing assignments, this quick-reference handbook is the perfect coach to give you practical guidance on making the most of your college experience by learning to write successfully. Straightforward and, this handbook will give you the guidance you need on ...
Study and Critical Thinking Skills in College presents a unique integration of study and critical thinking skills designed to help students become academically competitive. Study and Critical Thinking Skills in College discusses the active learning strategies and techniques that develop students' proficiency in interacting with text and lecture ...
Designed for use in the first level reading course, Guide to College Reading focuses on reading comprehension, vocabulary improvement, and textbook reading while addressing the learning characteristics, attitudes, and motivational levels to equip students with the skills and thinking processes they need to handle the diverse reading demands of ...
Essential Reading Skills is designed to improve students' reading and thinking skills through concise skill instruction, extensive guided practice, skill application, assessment, and feedback. The text is organized into ten chapters, each focusing on a specific reading and thinking skill. Each chapter includes skill instruction, practice exercises ...
Communication: Embracing Difference is the first hybrid communication text to stress the importance of understanding and celebrating difference as a means to becoming a more effective communicator. This new hybrid text targets both mainstream students and non-traditional students who range widely in age, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual ...
A learning and reading specialist with over 30 years of experience, Kathleen T. McWhorter applies her knowledge of how students read and understand texts to" Seeing the Pattern," a unique new rhetorically arranged reader that offers more help for students than any other reader. Building on proven features from her widely adopted composition text ...
College Reading and Study Skills, a developmental-level text, focuses on teaching reading and study skills through direct instruction and multiple opportunities for skill application. College Reading and Study Skills was written primarily for the courses that are half reading, half study skills. The illustrated introduction consists of ten Success ...
Efficient and Flexible Reading teaches students how to vary their approach to written texts based on the material and their purpose for reading. In addition to instruction in literal and critical comprehension skills, vocabulary, and study skills, Efficient and Flexible Reading teaches students how to identify text structures and thought patterns ...
Academic Reading is an advanced reading text that focuses on reading comprehension and critical thinking and provides strategies for reading in the major academic disciplines. This text fully encompasses the main disciplines such as social sciences, business, humanities and literature, mathematics, natural sciences, and the technical fields. ...
Pathways for Writing Scenarios, a full color, sentence-to-paragraph writing text, teaches effective writing through a practical and unique focus on ideas over rules. Fundamental sentence and paragraph writing skills are taught while engaging student interest, keeping the focus on ideas rather than on rules, and stressing the interconnection of ...
"Pathways: Writing Scenarios "teaches sentence and paragraph writing skills through themed writing scenarios, a focus on ideas over rules, and connecting grammar and the writing process. Covering all the significant topics at this level, the text also provides comprehensive and integrated coverage of the reading-writing connection (including a ...
Published to great acclaim in its first edition, Successful College Writing covers the skills other college-level texts assume students already possess. With comprehensive coverage of writing and research, more help with reading and study skills than any other rhetoric on the market, and a thorough, easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition, ...
Expanding Your Vocabulary improves students' vocabulary through concise instruction and extensive application using discipline-based readings. Part One of Expanding Your Vocabulary consists of instruction in the five critical areas of vocabulary development while Part Two gets students refining their skills through practice with authentic reading ...
The Writer's Selections: Shaping Our Lives, 5/e is a thematic reader for beginning writers that focuses on the influences and decisions that shape our lives, including other people, events, cultures, media, work, and technology. Representing a wide range of sources and supported by pre-reading and post-reading activities, the readings are short, ...
Reading Across the Disciplines improves college students' reading and thinking skills through brief skill instruction and extensive practice structured around readings in various academic disciplines. Reading Across the Disciplines is organized into three parts. Part One, "Reading and Thinking in College," presents a brief skill introduction (in ...
This best-selling paragraph-to-essay text is known for its fully integrated reading-writing approach, supportive tone, and step-by-step instruction. "The Writer' s Express" enables instructors to move from paragraph to essay writing with great flexibility. A section of 12 brief, high-interest readings prompts critical thinking and motivates ...
Selby's Essential College English is an excellent grammar workbook that provides a complete, clear treatment of the rules of grammar and punctuation. Incorporating a friendly and engaging tone throughout, the authors focus on the traditional principles of basic, sentence-level grammar and usage. Each chapter begins with a practice "Find the Error" ...
This vocabulary work-text contains concise instruction and extensive practice exercises. Brief and inexpensive, it presents dictionary and thesaurus usage, context clues and word parts. The book also demonstrates methods of vocabulary learning, such as index cards and vocabulary logs. Interesting aspects of language study are explored, as well; ...
Designed for use in the first reading course, Guide to College Reading focuses on the key areas of reading comprehension, vocabulary improvement, and textbook reading while addressing the learning characteristics, attitudes, and motivational levels of reading students. Guide to College Reading is intended to equip students with the skills they ...
Reading specialist Kathleen McWhorter understands that students are often lacking in the skills they need to succeed in the first-year writing course and need a text that doesn't assume they have mastered all the basics. "Successful College Writing "meets students where they are, offering extensive instruction in careful and critical reading, ...
Expressways for Writing Scenarios builds writing, reading, and critical thinking for greater writing success in academic, workplace, and everyday writing scenarios.
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