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What is Comprehending College Textbooks : Steps to Understanding and Remembering What You Read about?

Aimed at entering college students whose skills are at a precollege level, this book focuses on reading comprehension and explores reading as a form of the thinking process. The primary focus of the book is on helping students grasp the main ideas and supporting details of material they are assigned to read in their college textbooks. Chapters include: "Determining the Subject Matter"; "Locating Directly Stated Main Ideas"; "Formulating Implied Main Ideas"; "Identifying Supporting Details"; "Thinking Critically as You Read"; "Recognizing Authors' Writing Patterns"; "Applying Comprehensive Skills to Longer Passages"; and "Remembering College Textbook Material through Organizing." (RS)

Author

Joe Cortina, Janet Elder, Katherine Gonnet

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Book Co., Order Services S-1, Princeton Rd., Hightstown, NJ 08520 ($21.95)

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780070238329

Subjects

Language Learning, Education, Linguistics