College Reading & Study Skills, Ninth Edition [Paperback]

Kathleen T. McWhorter (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321104501 | ISBN-13: 978-0321104502 | Publication Date: June 3, 2003 | Edition: 9

Emphasizing comprehension and metacognition, College Reading and Study Skills approaches reading and study skills as essential skills necessary for college success.Students analyze their personal learning style and then apply what they have learned with “Learning Experiments” and “Learning Principles” exercises in each chapter. This innovative text stretches beyond its pages into Web–based readings as well.For students interested in improving their reading and study skills.

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Emphasizing comprehension and metacognition, College Reading and Study Skills approaches reading and study skills as essential skills necessary for college success.Students analyze their personal learning style and then apply what they have learned with “Learning Experiments” and “Learning Principles” exercises in each chapter. This innovative text stretches beyond its pages into Web–based readings as well.For students interested in improving their reading and study skills.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Longman; 9 edition (June 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321104501
• ISBN-13: 978-0321104502
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,159,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kathleen T. McWhorter is the author of more than a dozen textbooks designed to help students succeed in college. Born in a rural farm community in Upstate New York, she went on to receive her Ed.D. from SUNY Buffalo. For 34 years she taught at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, NY, where she is professor emerita of humanities. Through her textbooks Dr. McWhorter has helped an estimated 500,000 students improve their reading, writing, and thinking skills.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent trad study book, August 4, 2001

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This review is from: College Reading and Study Skills (Paperback)

Many of the exercises in the book include excerpts from college level reading materials that enable the learner to practise the taught skills with material equivalent to what they can expect to find in their studies. In fact, it's the heavy inclusion of the exercises which elevates this book above your standard "learn to learn" guide - the presented skill is immediately put to use! I found this to be immeasurably useful when learning the techniques. The sections on Time Management, Text Book Reading, and Note Taking were all well presented in an easy to understand format. The book is well worth the money. Five stars out of five.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Deeply Flawed, March 1, 2011

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This review is from: College Reading and Study Skills (with MyReadingLab Pearson eText Student Access Code Card) (11th Edition) (Paperback)

This book should be avoided - I taught from the 10th ed. but it is unlikely that the 11th ed. has been corrected in the matters noted below. First, in the chapter on outlining - essential for all beginning writers - all three of the sample outlines (pp. 339, 340, 341) contain the fatal error of subdividing a topic into
a single item. No group can consist of a single member only, and the grouping of similar thoughts (logically parallel and eventually grammatically parallel) is _sine_qua_non_ for coherent writing. These bad examples make it completely impossible for students to understand the most important functions of an outline: the grouping of parallel items that enables the writer to 1) organize thoughts and 2) generate further thoughts - finding parallel ideas, assertions, examples, etc. Second, there are numerous gross errors of fact in the book. For example, though it is essential to know the difference between allusion and reference, this textbook twice misinforms students about them. We find this: "Allusions are references to...literary...works" (p. 277) and "An allusion is a reference to...religious, literary, artistic, or historical works or sources" (p. 280). I could adduce more examples, but these are enough to make clear that this book should be taken off the shelves.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Study Skills, February 23, 2008

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Donna Kerr "Donna K" (Carmel, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: College Reading and Study Skills (book alone) (10th Edition) (Paperback)

My son appreciated this book. In his senor year of college and he found it helpful.