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Keys to college success : reading and study improvement / Minnette Lenier, Janet Maker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, �1998.Edition: 4th edDescription: xiii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 013270935X
  • 9780132709354
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Keys to college success.DDC classification:
  • 378.17 LEN 21
LOC classification:
  • LB2395 .L447 1998
Contents:
1. Adjusting to College Responsibilities -- 2. Working with Paragraphs: Subject, Main Idea, and Support -- 3. Reading Critically -- 4. Reading Textbooks I: Preview, Question, Read -- 5. Reading Textbooks II: Write, Recall, Review -- 6. Reading Textbooks III: Working with Technical Material -- 7. Learning from Lectures -- 8. Improving Memory -- 9. Taking Tests -- 10. Using the Library -- 11. Improving Vocabulary -- 12. Varying Reading Rates.
Review: "The fourth edition of Keys to College Success builds on its reputation as a practical text with a high-interest approach to the reading and study skills necessary for college students to achieve academic success." "Skills emphasized in this edition include time management, vocabulary, main ideas, author's organization, study reading, memory, critical reading, note taking, test taking, using the library, and writing term papers." "Each chapter contains skills introduction and readings which are followed by comprehension checks and skills exercises. Skills taught are reviewed at increasing levels of difficulty as the book progresses."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-349) and index.

1. Adjusting to College Responsibilities -- 2. Working with Paragraphs: Subject, Main Idea, and Support -- 3. Reading Critically -- 4. Reading Textbooks I: Preview, Question, Read -- 5. Reading Textbooks II: Write, Recall, Review -- 6. Reading Textbooks III: Working with Technical Material -- 7. Learning from Lectures -- 8. Improving Memory -- 9. Taking Tests -- 10. Using the Library -- 11. Improving Vocabulary -- 12. Varying Reading Rates.

"The fourth edition of Keys to College Success builds on its reputation as a practical text with a high-interest approach to the reading and study skills necessary for college students to achieve academic success." "Skills emphasized in this edition include time management, vocabulary, main ideas, author's organization, study reading, memory, critical reading, note taking, test taking, using the library, and writing term papers." "Each chapter contains skills introduction and readings which are followed by comprehension checks and skills exercises. Skills taught are reviewed at increasing levels of difficulty as the book progresses."--BOOK JACKET.

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