Bridging the Gap : College Reading
ISBN: 9780321446022 | 032144602X
Edition: 9thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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Written for the mid to high-level developmental reading course, Bridging the Gap by Brenda Smith continues to be the most popular textbook choice of developmental reading educators. Bridging the Gap was the first book to focus on how to read college textbooks. This theme has been broadened by linking textbook readings to recent news in the popular press and adding material on critical thinking and the Internet. A hallmark of the text, the end-of-chapter readings, represent the bridges of text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self; and their ... MORE
| An Overview of Bridging the Gap | |
| Active Learning | |
| What Is Active Learning? | |
| What Is Cognitive Psychology? | |
| How Does the Brain Screen Messages? | |
| Is Divided Attention Effective? | |
| Can Tasks Become Automatic? | |
| Automatic Aspects of Reading | |
| Cognitive Styles | |
| Multiple Intelligences: There is More than One Way to be... MORE | |
| What Is Concentration? | |
| Poor Concentration: Causes and Cures | |
| External Distractions | |
| Internal Distractions? | |
| Reader's Tip: Improving Concentration | |
| Successful Academic Behaviors? | |
| Reader's Tip: Managing E-Mail Efficiently | |
| Summary Points | |
| Selection 1: Computer Science | |
| Contemporary Focus: "Police in India to Monitor Cybercafes" from the Associated Press | |
| "Security and Privacy for Computers and the Internet" | |
| Search the Net | |
| Concept Prep for Computer Science | |
| Selection 2: Psychology | |
| Contemporary Focus | |
| "Critical-Period Hypothesis" | |
| Search the Net Concept Prep for Psychology | |
| Selection 3: Health | |
| Contemporary Focus: "Steroids" | |
| Search the Net | |
| Vocabulary | |
| Remembering New Words | |
| Using Context Clues | |
| Definition or Synonym | |
| Elaborating Details | |
| Examples | |
| Comparison | |
| Contrast | |
| Antonyms | |
| Limitations of Context Clues | |
| Multiple Meanings of a Word | |
| Understanding the Structure of Words | |
| Using a Dictionary | |
| Word Origins | |
| Using a Glossary | |
| Using a Thesaurus | |
| Using Analogies | |
| Reader's Tip: Categories of Analogy Relationships | |
| Easily Confused Words | |
| Recognizing Acronyms | |
| Recognizing Transitional Words | |
| Reader's Tip: Signals for Transition | |
| Summary Points | |
| Search the Net | |
| Vocabulary Booster: Over, Under, Around and Through | |
| Strategic Reading and Study | |
| What is Strategic Reading? | |
| What are the Stages of Reading? | |
| Stage 1: Previewing | |
| Signposts for Answering Preview Questions | |
| Reader's Tip: Asking Questions Before Reading | |
| Preview to Activate Schemata | |
| Stage 2: Integrating Knowledge While Reading | |
| Expanding Knowledge | |
| Integrating Ideas: How Do Good Readers Think? | |
| Reader's Tip: Using Thinking Strategies While Reading | |
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