New Directions: An Integrated Approach to Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking - Softcover

Gardner, Peter S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521657768 ISBN 13: 9780521657761

Publisher: St Martins Press, 1998

Synopsis

New Directions is a thematically based, integrated skills reader designed to bridge the gap between ESL and college content courses. By providing reading and writing assignments representative of real college classes, New Directions challenges students to expand their horizons. Through extended, integrated reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities, students learn to generate hypotheses, argue, analyze critically, and distinguish between different types of writing and purposes for reading. Moreover, New Directions helps students develop such crucial skills as the ability to identify a writer's point of view and tone, interpret a writer's meaning inferentially as well as literally, and discriminate between opinion and fact. The text also teaches students to detect fallacies in reasoning, to reach conclusions and judgments based on supportable criteria, and to propose new ideas.

About this title

Book Description

New Directions is a thematically based, integrated skills reader that bridges the gap between ESL and college content courses. This innovative text provides reading and writing assignments representative of college classes. Students learn to generate hypotheses, argue, analyze critically, and distinguish between different types of writing and purposes for reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521657768
• ISBN 13: 9780521657761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 313