Through the familiar and motivating metaphor of sports, Janet Elder (Opening Doors, New Worlds) provides students extensive opportunities to learn, apply, and reinforce essential reading skills.
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Janet Elder was graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas in Austin with a B.A. in English and Latin. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was the recipient of a government fellowship for Southern Methodist University’s Reading Research Program, which resulted in a master’s degree. Her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction in reading is from Texas Woman’s University, where the College of Education presented her the Outstanding Dissertation Award. She established the Richland College Honors Program and directed it for many years. She periodically serves as a member of the teaching teams in honors English and humanities courses. She has served ona task force that reevaluated Richland’s college-wide writing program. She received the Extra Mile Award from special services students, has been her division’s Piper Award nominee for excellence in teaching, and in 1993 received an Excellence Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. She used a recent sabbatical to create multimedia instructional materials. In addition, Dr. Elder and Dr. Gonnet co-authored the reading section of How to Prepare for the TASP, 2/e, a study guide for entering college students who must take the Texas Academic Skills Program Test.Dr. Elder serves as a presenter at many professional conferences.
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I am using this book to prepare for the reading comprehension section of the GMAT, and so far I have been very impressed with the results. If you are looking for a method of really breaking down passages and analyzing them skillfully, then I think you will find this book very helpful. It has a ton of practice questions, enough to bore you after a few chapters, but if you stick to it and do all the exercises you will get the most benefit
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College textbooks contain many words and terms that will be new to you. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Understanding Your Health, Hispanic Americans, Chief Joseph, Random House, Super Bowl, The American Democracy, Freda Adler, Gerhard Mueller, William Laufer, Interpreting Figures of Speech, Native Americans, New Mexico, Rita Gilbert, Second Amendment, Jack Kapoor, John Palen, Stephen Lucas, The Art of Public Speaking, Kitty Locker, Les Dlabay, Monty Roberts, Social Security, The Book of Virtues New!
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- New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading by Joe Cortina in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
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