Reading Skills for College Students - Softcover

Hancock, Ophelia H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131772279 ISBN 13: 9780131772274

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For courses in College Reading.

This highly effective text is designed to help students improve their vocabulary, comprehension, reading rate, and study and test-taking abilities. It covers all the reading skills required for college study, giving students hands-on practice with a variety of exercises. A collection of interesting, relevant readings on a wide variety of topics from textbooks, novels, newspapers, and magazines helps students strengthen skills and build background knowledge at the same time.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Prentice Hall is proud to present the sixth edition of Reading Skills for College Students. Thousands of students have used this successful text to improve their vocabulary, comprehension, reading rate, and test taking. In addition, this text serves as an excellent resource for the rest of students' college careers by providing instruction on reading in six different major content areas, including Literature, History, Political Science, Psychology, Biology, and Computers and Data Processing.

In addition to new and revised exercises throughout the text, the major revisions to the sixth edition include:

• In Part I, Reading Skills: A completely rewritten chapter on Dictionary Skills.
• In Part II, Reading in the Content Area: A completely rewritten chapter on reading Computer Science and Data Processing.
• In Part III, Reading Selections: Three new selections, including "Evolution of a Flag," "The Greatness Gap," and "The Statue of Liberty National Monument."
• A Completely revised Companion Website™ at www.prenhall.com/hancock. This free resource for students will contain many additional readings, each with self-grading vocabulary questions, comprehension questions (both self-grading and open-ended) and Internet Reading Assignments.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131772279
• ISBN 13: 9780131772274
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 480