Guide to College Reading, Eighth Edition, equips students with the skills they need to handle the diverse reading demands of a variety of college courses (reading comprehension, vocabulary improvement, and textbook reading) and guides students toward becoming active learners and critical thinkers.

Hallmark Features of Guide to College Reading

• A solid underpinning of metacognition, critical thinking, and learning styles empowers students to analyze their learning and develop action plans to increase their reading and learning abilities.
• The integration of reading and writing in numerous exercises throughout the text illustrates the relationship between these two important skills.
• Strong visual pedagogy and a robust full-color palette help students visualize how reading material can be organized and engages today's visually oriented students in the reading process.
• "Learning Style Tips" teach students how to apply knowledge of their individual learning styles to develop new skills.

Reasons to Adopt the Eighth Edition

• A new “Contemporary Issues Minireader” offers six new readings on topics of current interest.
• A new section on word mapping (Chapter 4) teaches students a visual strategy for expanding their vocabularies.
• A new section on online dictionary usage (Chapter 4) explains the benefits of online resources.
• New “Studying Words” vocabulary exercises provide practice using a dictionary to find the etymology, correct pronunciation, word parts, and multiple meanings of specific words.
• Four new end-of-chapter readings dealing with contemporary topics have been added to Mastery Test 4 in this edition.

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