Reading and Study Skills with Student CD-ROM - Softcover

Langan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073288438 ISBN 13: 9780073288437

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Synopsis

By focusing on a wide range of reading and study skills required in the academic world, Reading and Study Skills gives instructors the flexibility to address student needs that might otherwise require several texts.

The highly versatile organization divides topics into focused, self-contained modules that can be covered in any order with the result that the text can be adapted to fit any teaching or learning situation.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Profiles of Successful Students: Each of the eight parts opens with a profile of a student who provides an inspiring example of the skill to be covered (for ex: motivation, notetaking, mastering college vocabulary, etc.).
What Kind of Learner Are You? Learning Styles assessment software loaded onto the CD-ROM helps students discover how they best acquire information.
Student CD-ROM: The CD offers convenient off-line access to the Online Learning Center material, plus learning styles assessment software.
New Chapter: The Seventh Edition features a chapter from a popular introductory sociology text. Students are given exhaustive, practical experience reading and taking notes on the material.
Motivational Skills: The opening chapter of Reading and Study Skills addresses motivation, attitude, and goal-setting as key element of successful classwork.

About the Author:

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College for more than 25 years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing instructive materials that are clear and lively. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and conveying to nonreaders the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Librarya collection of more than 100 new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0073288438
• ISBN 13: 9780073288437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640