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Bridging the Gap : College Reading (with Study Card for Vocabulary)
ISBN: 9780321472076 | 0321472071
Edition: 8thFormat: Package
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 5/24/2006
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Written for the mid to high-level developmental reading course, Bridging the Gap, Eighth Edition by Brenda Smith continues to be the #1 textbook choice of developmental reading educators. Bridging the Gap was the first book to focus on how to read college textbooks. Over the course of several editions, 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 varying reading levels to perm... 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 | |
| What Is Concentration? | |
| Poor Co... MORE | |
| External Distractions | |
| Internal Distractions | |
| Reader's Tip: Improving Concentration | |
| Focusing on Successful Academic Behaviors | |
| Reader's Tip: Managing E-Mail Efficiently | |
| Summary Points | |
| Selection 1: Computer Science | |
| Contemporary Focus: "Police in India to Moniter Cybercafes" from the Associated Press | |
| "Security and Privacy for Computers and the Internet" | |
| Search the Net | |
| Secrets of a Successful Search | |
| Make a Plan | |
| Reader's Tip: Popular College Databases | |
| Search and Search Again | |
| Reader's Tip: Manipulating the Search | |
| Read Selectively | |
| Record as You Go | |
| Consider the Source | |
| Concept Prep for Computer Science | |
| Selection 2: Psychology | |
| Contemporary Focus: "Lions, Tigers- Wild Animals, Not Pets" from the Desert Morning News | |
| "Critical-Period Hypothesis" by James V. McConnell | |
| Concept Prep for Psychology | |
| Reader's Journal | |
| Vocabulary | |
| Remembering New Words | |
| Using Context Clues | |
| Definition | |
| Elaborating Details | |
| Examples | |
| Comparison | |
| Contrast | |
| Limitations of Context Clues | |
| Multiple Meanings of a Word | |
| Unders tanding 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 | |
| Vocabulary Bookster: Over, Under, Around | |
| 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 | |
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