Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Encouraging students to read actively and critically, to approach reading as a thinking process, and to analyze their own reading and learning strategies,Efficient and Flexible Readingteaches students how to vary their approach to written texts based on the material and their purpose for reading.Efficient and Flexible Readingteaches students how to identify text structures and thought patterns for more efficient learning. Emphasizing reading as an active thinking process, the author presents systems for monitoring concentration, comprehension, and recall, encouraging students to assess the reading assignment and to select the appropriate strategy to suit the situation.
Efficient and Flexible Reading
Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Encouraging students to read actively and critically, to approach reading as a thinking process, and to analyze their own reading and learning strategies,Efficient and Flexible Readingteaches students how to vary their approach to written texts based on the material and their purpose for reading.Efficient and Flexible Readingteaches students how to identify text structures and thought patterns for more efficient learning. Emphasizing reading as an active thinking process, the author presents systems for monitoring concentration, comprehension, and recall, encouraging students to assess the reading assignment and to select the appropriate strategy to suit the situation.
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Encouraging students to read actively and critically, to approach reading as a thinking process, and to analyze their own reading and learning strategies,Efficient and Flexible Readingteaches students how to vary their approach to written texts based on the material and their purpose for reading.Efficient and Flexible Readingteaches students how to identify text structures and thought patterns for more efficient learning. Emphasizing reading as an active thinking process, the author presents systems for monitoring concentration, comprehension, and recall, encouraging students to assess the reading assignment and to select the appropriate strategy to suit the situation.
Efficient and Flexible Reading
Author: Kathleen McWhorter
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN: 9780205903597
Category : Developmental reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Efficient and Flexible Reading teaches students how to be self-aware, active readers and adapt key reading skills and strategies to whatever college text they encounter.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN: 9780205903597
Category : Developmental reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Efficient and Flexible Reading teaches students how to be self-aware, active readers and adapt key reading skills and strategies to whatever college text they encounter.
Making Reading Relevant
Author: Teri Quick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780134179216
Category : Reading (Higher education)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For courses in Introductory Reading, Intermediate Reading, and Developmental Reading. A flexible reading text that helps you become better, more efficient readers by applying skills to real sources Now in its 4th Edition, Making Reading Relevant is a brief, intermediate-level reading text that manages to address all of the topics and issues needed to conduct productive and meaningful courses in developmental reading. The authors designed Making Reading Relevant to be flexible: it may be used as the primary textbook for a course, or as a reference tool to supplement the use of outside reading materials and primary sources. Overall, the authors stress the application of reading strategies, using primary reading sources as the basis of the content, so that you learn to become a better, more efficient reader-not by just reading about how to read, but by applying skills to reading real sources. The 4th Edition includes chapter updates, along with new examples, readings, and updated vocabulary resources. Also available with MyLab Reading MyLab(TM) Reading is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. In an ideal world, an instructor would work with each student to help improve writing skills with consistent challenges and rewards. Without that luxury, MyLab Reading offers a way to keep students focused and accelerate their progress using comprehensive pre-assignments and a powerful, adaptive study plan. NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Reading does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab Reading, search for: 0134308530 / 9780134308531 Making Reading Relevant: The Art of Connecting Plus MyLab Reading with eText -- Access Card Package, 4/e Package consists of: 0133995011 / 9780133995015 MyLab Reading with eText -- Access Card 0134179218 / 9780134179216 Making Reading Relevant: The Art of Connecting, 4/e MyLab Reading should only be purchased when required by an instructor.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780134179216
Category : Reading (Higher education)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For courses in Introductory Reading, Intermediate Reading, and Developmental Reading. A flexible reading text that helps you become better, more efficient readers by applying skills to real sources Now in its 4th Edition, Making Reading Relevant is a brief, intermediate-level reading text that manages to address all of the topics and issues needed to conduct productive and meaningful courses in developmental reading. The authors designed Making Reading Relevant to be flexible: it may be used as the primary textbook for a course, or as a reference tool to supplement the use of outside reading materials and primary sources. Overall, the authors stress the application of reading strategies, using primary reading sources as the basis of the content, so that you learn to become a better, more efficient reader-not by just reading about how to read, but by applying skills to reading real sources. The 4th Edition includes chapter updates, along with new examples, readings, and updated vocabulary resources. Also available with MyLab Reading MyLab(TM) Reading is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. In an ideal world, an instructor would work with each student to help improve writing skills with consistent challenges and rewards. Without that luxury, MyLab Reading offers a way to keep students focused and accelerate their progress using comprehensive pre-assignments and a powerful, adaptive study plan. NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Reading does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab Reading, search for: 0134308530 / 9780134308531 Making Reading Relevant: The Art of Connecting Plus MyLab Reading with eText -- Access Card Package, 4/e Package consists of: 0133995011 / 9780133995015 MyLab Reading with eText -- Access Card 0134179218 / 9780134179216 Making Reading Relevant: The Art of Connecting, 4/e MyLab Reading should only be purchased when required by an instructor.
In Harmony
Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780133944914
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MySkillsLab (r) does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MySkillsLab search for: 0134023862 / 9780134023861 In Harmony: Reading and Writing Plus MySkillsLab with Pearson eText - Access Card Package Package consists of: 0133944913 / 9780133944914 In Harmony: Reading and Writing, 2/e 0133995151 / 9780133995152 MySkillsLab with Pearson eText - Inside Star Sticker 0133995178 / 9780133995176 MySkillsLab with Pearson eText - Access Card For combined courses in Developmental Reading and Writing. A focus on sentence- and paragraph-level reading and writing skills In Harmony, Second Edition is the first text in a two-part integrated reading and writing series. This volume focuses on sentence to paragraph reading and writing skills, while In Concert moves on to explore paragraph and essay level reading and writing. This series aims to show students how reading and writing unite to become a single process of understanding and expressing ideas. Emphasizing the harmonious nature of the reading and writing processes, it highlights critical thinking and reinforces its relationship to these processes. Student and professional readings are presented at the start of each chapter and used as the basis for instruction, illustration, and practice. Readings are presented as integrated instructional material, rather than as models or additional practice, allowing students to improve on their own reading and writing skills through a single source. Thematic-based chapters help build continuity, elicit student interest and help students draw on their own prior knowledge. McWhorter s streamlined presentation and flexible approach work in traditional as well as compressed courses. Also Available with MySkillsLab (r) This title is also available with MySkillsLab an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. "
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780133944914
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MySkillsLab (r) does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MySkillsLab search for: 0134023862 / 9780134023861 In Harmony: Reading and Writing Plus MySkillsLab with Pearson eText - Access Card Package Package consists of: 0133944913 / 9780133944914 In Harmony: Reading and Writing, 2/e 0133995151 / 9780133995152 MySkillsLab with Pearson eText - Inside Star Sticker 0133995178 / 9780133995176 MySkillsLab with Pearson eText - Access Card For combined courses in Developmental Reading and Writing. A focus on sentence- and paragraph-level reading and writing skills In Harmony, Second Edition is the first text in a two-part integrated reading and writing series. This volume focuses on sentence to paragraph reading and writing skills, while In Concert moves on to explore paragraph and essay level reading and writing. This series aims to show students how reading and writing unite to become a single process of understanding and expressing ideas. Emphasizing the harmonious nature of the reading and writing processes, it highlights critical thinking and reinforces its relationship to these processes. Student and professional readings are presented at the start of each chapter and used as the basis for instruction, illustration, and practice. Readings are presented as integrated instructional material, rather than as models or additional practice, allowing students to improve on their own reading and writing skills through a single source. Thematic-based chapters help build continuity, elicit student interest and help students draw on their own prior knowledge. McWhorter s streamlined presentation and flexible approach work in traditional as well as compressed courses. Also Available with MySkillsLab (r) This title is also available with MySkillsLab an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. "
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Public Law 113-128
Author: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160934810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This printed volume is a 2016 reprint of the 2013 Public Law originally published within the 113th Congress. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act was created to amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to strengthen the United States workforce development system through innovation in, and alignment and improvement of, employment, training, and education programs in the United States, and to promote individual and national economic growth, and for other purposes. WIOA is a landmark legislation that is designed to strengthen and improve our nation's public workforce system and help get Americans, including youth and those with significant barriers to employment, into high-quality jobs and careers and help employers hire and retain skilled workers. Audience: Students, Educators, Employers, and Employees would be interested in the amendments made to this act. Related products: United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (Plum Book) 2016 is available for pre-order here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07704-2 United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions 2012 (Plum Book) --Limited Supply-- Overstock Reduced list price while supplies last--( no further discount for this overstock product)- available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07648-8 Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, Public Law 111-312 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/069-000-00198-0 Here Today, Jobs of Tomorrow: Opportunities in Information Technology is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/029-001-03313-3
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160934810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This printed volume is a 2016 reprint of the 2013 Public Law originally published within the 113th Congress. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act was created to amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to strengthen the United States workforce development system through innovation in, and alignment and improvement of, employment, training, and education programs in the United States, and to promote individual and national economic growth, and for other purposes. WIOA is a landmark legislation that is designed to strengthen and improve our nation's public workforce system and help get Americans, including youth and those with significant barriers to employment, into high-quality jobs and careers and help employers hire and retain skilled workers. Audience: Students, Educators, Employers, and Employees would be interested in the amendments made to this act. Related products: United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (Plum Book) 2016 is available for pre-order here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07704-2 United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions 2012 (Plum Book) --Limited Supply-- Overstock Reduced list price while supplies last--( no further discount for this overstock product)- available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07648-8 Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, Public Law 111-312 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/069-000-00198-0 Here Today, Jobs of Tomorrow: Opportunities in Information Technology is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/029-001-03313-3
In Harmony
Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
College Reading and Study Skills
Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780321854063
Category : Reading (Higher education)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"College Reading and Study Skills" teaches reading, critical thinking and study skills for today's diverse students, encouraging them to apply these integrated skill sets to their coursework and future academic success." "Kathleen McWhorter wrote "College Reading and Study Skills," primarily, for courses that are half reading, half study skills. Emphasizing comprehension and metacognition, "College Reading and Study Skills" approaches reading and study skills as essential skills necessary for college success. The text focuses on reading and learning as a cognitive process, encouraging students to approach reading as an active mental process of selecting, processing, and organizing information to be learned.
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780321854063
Category : Reading (Higher education)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"College Reading and Study Skills" teaches reading, critical thinking and study skills for today's diverse students, encouraging them to apply these integrated skill sets to their coursework and future academic success." "Kathleen McWhorter wrote "College Reading and Study Skills," primarily, for courses that are half reading, half study skills. Emphasizing comprehension and metacognition, "College Reading and Study Skills" approaches reading and study skills as essential skills necessary for college success. The text focuses on reading and learning as a cognitive process, encouraging students to approach reading as an active mental process of selecting, processing, and organizing information to be learned.
Keys to College Success
Author: Carol Carter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735189123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Keys to College Success is an established first year experience textbook, designed for use with students taking courses related to the college transition and student success, and featuring a tried-and-true college-career-life connection and emphasis on thinking skills and problem-solving. This ninth edition adds a COVID-19 update -- a ten-page frontmatter section with up-to-the-minute information on digital and distributed learning as well as wellness and self-management strategies in the time of COVID-19. Update topics include synchronous and asynchronous learning elements, navigating technology and course websites, coping with stress in a time of crisis, and more. This text is build around a risk and reward theme, showing students how risking action to grow, thrive, and contribute can lead to the rewards of learning, meaningful employment, and community involvement. Inspiring case studies open and close each chapter and show how a real person faced and surmounted a challenge by taking a calculated risk. Thinking skills coverage is another text-wide framework; comprehensive content with research references lend credibility and perspective to concepts, targeted exercises that explore personally relevant situations in context, and sustained focus throughout each topic. The text is tailored to the four-year program experience; acknowledging global economic change and instability, Keys to Success frames the four-year college experience in practical, work-relevant ways even as it supports the value of a liberal education. New coverage of resources, topics, and research, including work by Robert Sternberg, Carol Dweck, and Martin Seligman, support concepts. The twelve chapters cover all major student success topics -- adjusting to college; goals, time, and stress management; emotional and physical wellness; personality and learning preferences; critical, creative, and practical thinking; reading, research, and writing; note taking, memory, and studying; test taking; people, resources, and opportunities; planning for career success; mathematical and financial literacy; and diversity and communication. Exercises and features incorporate coaching language and intent, building accountability for the student, guiding the student to create personally relevant work, and asking powerful questions that encourage reflection and the development of self-knowledge.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735189123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Keys to College Success is an established first year experience textbook, designed for use with students taking courses related to the college transition and student success, and featuring a tried-and-true college-career-life connection and emphasis on thinking skills and problem-solving. This ninth edition adds a COVID-19 update -- a ten-page frontmatter section with up-to-the-minute information on digital and distributed learning as well as wellness and self-management strategies in the time of COVID-19. Update topics include synchronous and asynchronous learning elements, navigating technology and course websites, coping with stress in a time of crisis, and more. This text is build around a risk and reward theme, showing students how risking action to grow, thrive, and contribute can lead to the rewards of learning, meaningful employment, and community involvement. Inspiring case studies open and close each chapter and show how a real person faced and surmounted a challenge by taking a calculated risk. Thinking skills coverage is another text-wide framework; comprehensive content with research references lend credibility and perspective to concepts, targeted exercises that explore personally relevant situations in context, and sustained focus throughout each topic. The text is tailored to the four-year program experience; acknowledging global economic change and instability, Keys to Success frames the four-year college experience in practical, work-relevant ways even as it supports the value of a liberal education. New coverage of resources, topics, and research, including work by Robert Sternberg, Carol Dweck, and Martin Seligman, support concepts. The twelve chapters cover all major student success topics -- adjusting to college; goals, time, and stress management; emotional and physical wellness; personality and learning preferences; critical, creative, and practical thinking; reading, research, and writing; note taking, memory, and studying; test taking; people, resources, and opportunities; planning for career success; mathematical and financial literacy; and diversity and communication. Exercises and features incorporate coaching language and intent, building accountability for the student, guiding the student to create personally relevant work, and asking powerful questions that encourage reflection and the development of self-knowledge.
The Making of an Adult Educator
Author: Malcolm S. Knowles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979564338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
An updated version of Knowles' classic discussion of adult education
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979564338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
An updated version of Knowles' classic discussion of adult education
Efficient and Flexible Reading
Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN: 9780205074280
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The à la carte edition features the exact same content as the traditional textbook, but in a convenient notebook-ready, loose-leaf version -- allowing students to take only what they need to class. Our Books à la Carte titles offer a savings of 35%* and typically cost less than a used textbook! *subject to change Note: This is the standalone edition of Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays, Books a la Carte , if you want the book/access card order the ISBN below: 0321846591 / 9780321846594 Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays, Books a la Carte Plus NEW MyWritingLab with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 020511055X / 9780205110551 Along These Lines: Paragraphs and Essays, Books A la Carte Edition 0205870147 / 9780205870141 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN: 9780205074280
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The à la carte edition features the exact same content as the traditional textbook, but in a convenient notebook-ready, loose-leaf version -- allowing students to take only what they need to class. Our Books à la Carte titles offer a savings of 35%* and typically cost less than a used textbook! *subject to change Note: This is the standalone edition of Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays, Books a la Carte , if you want the book/access card order the ISBN below: 0321846591 / 9780321846594 Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays, Books a la Carte Plus NEW MyWritingLab with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 020511055X / 9780205110551 Along These Lines: Paragraphs and Essays, Books A la Carte Edition 0205870147 / 9780205870141 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card