The SQ3R Method is a great way to embrace academic reading!
MAKING CONNECTIONS teaches students the critical reading skills they need to complete college assignments by using actual textbook chapters, research articles and literary pieces as reading material.
Quick, critical reading is an essential skill that is used in standardized tests, jobs, schools, and more. Be it literature, essays, tech writing, or articles, this fully updated edition of Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day provides a complete close-reading tutorial in an easy 20-step program.
The cornerstone of the Wiener/Bazerman System, Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, retains the features that have made it a bestseller for more than twenty-five years: flexible format, high-interest readings, clear explanations, and a multitude of practice exercises. The step-by-step approach encourages students to move with confidence from simple to more complex skills. An anthology of readings helps students apply newly learned skills in selections drawn from books, magazines, and newspapers and including essays, articles, textbook pages, journals, fiction, photographs, illustrations, cartoons, advertisements, and Web sites—in short, the wide range of reading opportunities available to today’s readers at home or on the job.
Basic Reading Skills Handbook, 5/e, is based on the principle that students need specific skills and high-interest reading materials to improve their reading ability and level of engagement. Following the authors popular two-part handbook/anthology format, the text opens with skills instruction and practice followed by readings and exercises for application. Consistent apparatus and terminology throughout, as well as self-contained chapters, make Wiener and Bazerman s developmental reading system an efficient and flexible teaching tool.
A system that works; a book that keeps selling. Since 1959, the Evelyn Wood Program of Dynamic Learning has been successfully employed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, helping them break free of the self-imposed shackles that hinder learning. By teaching us to tap the natural power of the mind, the Evelyn Wood method helps us to dramatically increase reading speed, retain more of what we hear and read, improve comprehension and develop our powers of concentration. In just minutes, you'll notice a real difference in your reading speed, and in succeeding chapters of this seven-day program you'll get the secrets of effective note-taking, find tips for instantly improving your writing, and much more.
Try some of these resources
"Active Reading Strategies: Remember and Analyze What You Read" — Princeton
Short guide from Trent University with helpful questions to think about to get the most of reading scholarly articles.
Slideshow from the University of New England. Introduces methods of reading and how to annotate materials.
A guide from Amanda Graham at Yukon College, discussing the steps for the effective reading of academic articles
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article -Tutorial on how to identify parts of a scholarly article. Created by North Carolina State University.
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