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A textbook for improving college-level reading skills
by Audrey Cross and Katherine Sorenson
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Outcomes
Work through this textbook to build reading skills and improve comprehension.
Work through this textbook to build reading skills and improve comprehension.
Learn to:
Learn to:
Employ effective reading and study methods .
Identify types of relationships among sentences and within text passages.
Identify main ideas and supporting details.
Employ effective critical reading skills.
Generalize and draw conclusions based on text.
This chapter teaches how to figure out the main idea of a paragraph as well as to identify the supporting details which help clarify, support and explain it.
This chapter teaches how to read critically. Recognizing a writer's bias, tone, and purpose for writing, as well as being able to evaluate the strength of the arguments being made, is key to deep understanding.
This chapter teaches how to draw conclusions in different scenarios. Using reading comprehension skills and the skills of observation to make inferences in pictures and graphs and in fiction and nonfiction texts.
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