Includes answers to exercises and an Instructor's Guide with teaching tips in the back.

Jane L. McGrath earned her undergraduate degree and M.A. in education and mass communications and her Ed.D. in reading education from Arizona State University. During her more than twenty-five years with the Maricopa Colleges, McGrath taught a variety of reading, English, journalism, and computer applications courses. She was named Innovator of the YearOutstanding Citizen awards from the cities of Tempe and Phoenix, Arizona, for her community service activities. McGrath's other books include Building Strategies for College Reading: A Text with Thematic Reader (fourth edition) and Strategies for Critical Reading. In addition to her work in reading education, McGrath and her husband Larry write for the high-performance automotive industry. Their work has appeared in magazines such as Drag Racing Today and Circle Track, and their monthly column appears in Performance Racing Industry.

This second edition remains firmly focused on helping students develop a large repertoire of reading and study strategies to meet the demands of reading college-level expository prose. Features in the second edition include:

Thematic reading units. Each of the themes includes a complete text chapter and 6-8 related articles:

• Hold Onto Your Positive Attitude (Your Attitude Is Showing, Chapman & O'Neil)
• A Healthy Environment (Health Skills for Wellness, Pruitt & Crumpler)
• Deliver Your Message with Effective Oral Presentations (Business Communication, Bienvew & Timm)

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