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020 _a9781591942009
020 _a1591942004
040 _cLC
050 _aLB2395.3.L34
082 _a428.4/07/12
100 _qLangan, John
245 _aTen steps to advancing college reading skills. /
_cJohn Langan
250 _a5th ed.
260 _aWest Berlin, NJ:
_bTownsend Press,
_c2010.
300 _axii, 708 p.:
_bill,;
490 _3Townsend Press reading series
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aContents: Introduction: How to become a better reader and a thinker -- Some quick study tips -- The power of reading -- 1. Ten steps to advancing college reading skills: Vocabulary in context -- Main ideas -- Supporting details -- Implied main ideas -- Relationships I -- Relationships II -- Inferences -- Purpose and tone -- Argument -- Critical reading -- Ten reading selections: The professor is a dropout -- Taming the anger monster -- He was first -- My father’s hands -- Motivation and needs -- Effects of the automobile -- Rabies -- Bad managers -- Busy as a bee? Then who is doing the work? -- Stepping into the light -- Combined-skills tests -- For further study: More about summarizing and outlining -- Additional tests on fact and opinion -- Four additional readings -- Understanding bias -- Writing assignments --
650 _aReading comprehension.
650 _aStudy skills.
650 _aReading (Higher education)
_xUnited States.
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_cBK
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_d16050