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The Reader's Handbook: Reading Strategies for College and Everyday Life, 3/e

BASIC APPROACH

(Note: This textbook was published by our college division for use by students at post-secondary institutions whose writing skills are below the level needed to succeed in college English. Please review this text carefully to ensure appropriateness of content for your students.)

The Reader's Handbook is an ongoing reading reference tool that provides the skills, strategies, and techniques necessary for effective reading in college and everyday life.

The Reader's Handbook is a flexible and informative teaching tool to support group and individualized classroom instruction. The easy-to-follow format offers many choices in meeting students' needs. This new Third Edition, with the ten reading selections in Part 5 provides a comprehensive reading textbook for the skills needed for college success.

The Handbook contains sufficient material for a semester of college reading, but instructors can select and emphasize chapters that reflect the expectations, demands, and interests of their particular student populations and institutions.

By including personal and business reading, instructors can integrate the academic with the recreational and immediate. Instructors may want to begin the semester with the chapters in Part Four to demonstrate the impact reading has on daily life. Students can bring in a handful of their most recent solicitations for credit cards and music clubs, as well as examples of memos and newsletters from their jobs.

The Handbook is also a long-term reference book. Students can return to material later in their academic or professional careers as the information is needed in a history course, a biology course, or an office management position.

FEATURES

• The Reader's Handbook has been revised to now lend itself to reading levels from 6th grade to 12th+.
• Unique comb-binding, tabbed format makes it easy for students to use The Reader's Handbook as a reference tool. To guide the reader, each chapter and section is referenced with colored tabs printed on the side of the page.
• Both academic readings from actual freshman college texts and popular readings from magazines and newspapers are included as models and as the basis for practice exercises.
• Net Search activities encourage students to amplify textbook study through Internet research. Detailed instructions on how to use the Internet are presented in Chapter 20.
• Tips are offered on reading electronic material critically.
• Reader's Tip boxes give easy-to-access advice for readers, condensing strategies for improving reading into practical hints for quick reference. (A complete list of Reader's Tips appears on the last page of the book and the inside back cover.).
• Small-Group Exploration activities at the end of each chapter provide collaborative application and critical thinking opportunities.
• Vocabulary development strategies and corresponding exercises are presented in a separate chapter early in the book and include instruction in using context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
• For reading in the various college disciplines, tips are given to help students put the material in an intellectual framework (i.e., Think Like A Historian or Think Like A Philosopher). Different perspectives for interpretation are explained in appropriate areas.
• Newspaper organization is explained and magazines are differentiated according to purposes, with tips for consumer purchasing decisions.
• Different types of contemporary fiction and nonfiction books are described, with tips on selecting books for pleasurable reading.
• Charts, diagrams, and graphs are explained, and examples of each are provided in full color.
• Tips for managing workplace and personal mail include suggestions for reading letters, memos, newsletters, bills, and advertisements.
• The most common library reference works are described, with tips on how to find relevant research references.

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