Making Connections: Reading and Understanding College Textbooks - Softcover

Allen, Sheila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015507122X ISBN 13: 9780155071223

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

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Part I: READING SKILLS. Unit One: The Student?s Role as Learner. Unit Two: Vocabulary Skills: Context and Word Part Clues. 1. Understanding Textbook Vocabulary. Unit Three: Comprehension Skills: Understanding Passages and Graphics. 2. Finding Main Ideas. 3. Determining organizational Patterns of Paragraphs. 4. Reading and Interpreting Graphics. Unit Four: Critical Thinking Skills: Understanding an Author?s Intent. 5. Making Inferences. 6. Determining Facts and Opinions. 7. Reading and Answering Test Questions. Part II: APPLYNG STUDY/READING TECHNIQUES TO TEXTBOOKS. Unit Five: Four Textbooks. 8. Health: Personal Stress Management. 9. American History: The Furnace of Civil War. 10. Business: Human Resource Management and Motivation. 11. Psychology: Personality. Part III: PERIODICAL RESEARCH. Unit Six: Reading and Taking Notes from Periodicals. Health Articles. American History Articles. Business Articles. Psychology Articles. Appendix A: Answers to Practice Tests. Appendix B: Reading Essays about Literary Works. Appendix C: Selected Answers to Part I Exercises. Index.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 015507122X
• ISBN 13: 9780155071223
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 434