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Reading Thresholds helps basic readers develop analytical abilities and apply them to material they will encounter in college and in their careers. Students progress through a series of paragraph- and essay-length readings, moving naturally to longer selections as their confidence builds. The text's integrated treatment of reading, writing, and study skills; pedagogy using the SQ3R model; and encouraging tone guide students toward active and effective reading.
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This reference handbook surveys research on the central issue associated with the teaching of unprepared writers. Though basic writing has only been recognized as a distinct area of teaching and research since 1975, the existing bibliographic texts already seem limited due to their age or lack of annotation. This volume provides current and extensive bibliographic essays and will help to define this new field of study for teachers and researchers. Following an introduction that summarizes the origins and significant texts in basic writing, the book is divided into three sections, Social Science Perspectives, Linguistic Perspectives, and Pedagogical Perspectives. The first section, which cont...
This brand new edition of this acclaimed work (an excellent introduction--Journal of Academic Librarianship; informative--ARBA; excellent--Public Libraries) provides a self-contained, short course in essential library skills for patrons of college, high school and public libraries. Subjects addressed include the card catalog and cataloging systems; online public access catalogs; subject headings; bibliographies; book reviews and parts of a book; information sources (newspapers, periodicals, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.); CD-ROM indexes and database searching; government, business and consumer information; nonprint materials; online computer use in school libraries; and hints for writing papers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.