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College Reading & Study Skills, Ninth Edition

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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.

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.

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

This book really helped me get a great start in college. For anyone who has questions as to what to expect when you get to college, this is the book for you.

The book doesnt contain most of the informations which is hardly needed by the students, especially those who are in college. In short, it is incomplete.