Good reading, thinking, and writing abilities are essential to college success. With engaging articles, essays, stories, textbook chapters, and writing exercises, THE THOUGHTFUL READER helps you develop these crucial skills. Carefully selected readings introduce you to the types of materials you will encounter in your college courses and your adult life. Review, discussion, and exam questions are presented so that you can see what you will face in an actual course. Tools such as Thinking about the Theme, Introduction to the Reading Selection, Vocabulary, Guide Questions, Applications, Writing Assignments, and Making Connections are designed to help you improve your reading and writing skills and succeed in your college courses.
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Synopsis:
Augmented by vocabulary and writing exercises, this textbook collects 64 stories, essays, and articles on education, culture, language, business, and controversial issues to help incoming freshmen learn how to read more fluently. The fourth edition adds reading selections on Afghan women, African refugees, and grade inflation, and three new chapter
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- PublisherCengage Learning
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 1413009417
- ISBN 13 9781413009415
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number4
- Number of pages480
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