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Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Readings for College Students, 6/e

Deanne Spears, City College of San Francisco

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New and proven readings by authors including Bill Bryson, Debra Dickerson, Cornelia Bailey, Eric Schlosser, Joe Abbott, Lynne Duke, Luis Alberto Urrea, Ian Frazier, Pamela Grim, Charles Finney, and Studs Terkel.
Part 6: Reading Textbooks, which features academic advice as well as five diverse textbook excerpts covering American government, mass media, psychology, anthropology, and biology.
Increased emphasis on vocabulary development with a vocabulary preview and exercises accompanying each reading.
A multitude of exercises covering skills like determining the main idea and writer's purpose; comprehending main ideas; making inferences; distinguishing between fact and opinion; analyzing structure; and many more, with new, additional coverage of annotating, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
Web suggestions throughout the book, including both specific web links and suggestions for student-driven exploration and research.

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