Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading

Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading
ISBN-10
0072314966
ISBN-13
9780072314960
Series
Opening Doors
Category
College readers
Pages
733
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Authors
Joe Cortina, Janet Elder

Description

Useful for Developmental Reading and Reading and Study Skills courses, this intermediate-level text presents a systematic way of approaching college textbook material to help students be more efficient in their reading and studying. Accompanied by a student CD-ROM, it contains 24 selections, along with 2 textbook chapters.

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