8C-4, 0-13-087483-3, McGrath, Dr. Jane L., Basic Skills and Strategies for College Reading: A Text with Thematic Reader*/ Helping users acquire the essential reading skills they will need to effectively comprehend what they are reading and become independent and successful learners, this cognitive-based guide presents research-validated reading strategies that demonstrate how to plan, monitor, and evaluate personal developmental reading skills. Covers previewing, understanding vocabulary, identifying and understanding main ideas, identifying major and minor supporting details, identifying the way an author organizes details and/or sentences, distinguishing between facts and opinions, making valid inferences, and determining a thesis. Contains three thematic reading units (personal development, American government, and biology). Each offers three to five diverse, high-interest articles on the unifying topic taken from texts, magazines and newspapers, and covering such topics as computers, personal finance, music, communications, personal development, environmental science, sociology, career exploration, geography, psychology, history, health, and human relations. Integrated web exercises direct users to appropriate Internet sites on content-related tasks. For anyone looking to improve and/or develop their reading skills.