Spears Deanne. Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Readings for College Students

7th edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2013. — 460 p. — ISBN10: 0073407313.Хрестоматия для студентов колледжей, снабженная пояснениями, материалами по увеличению словарного запаса и многочисленными упражнениями.Improving Reading Skills features a wide variety of carefully chosen readings that engage, encourage, and challenge students. Ideal for introductory and intermediate developmental reading courses, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and now includes two new parts, expanded part introductions, an even broader range of levels for the reading selections, increased emphasis on annotating, paragraphing, and summarizing, and a new section in part five.Author’s overviewThe seventh edition contains 41 reading selections—book, magazine, and news paper articles and essays, online and newspaper editorials, two short textbook excerpts, and new to this edition, short fiction and everyday reading material
(explained in detail further on). For Parts One through Six, I chose the readings using several criteria: They must be well written and relatively easy to understand (especially in the beginning readings); they must be a reasonable length so that
students can complete the reading and accompanying exercises in one sitting; and they must be of sufficient interest to appeal to the most reluctant of readers.I want students to see that they are members of a larger community and that reading can be instrumental in helping them fill this role. Reading also provides students with a way for them to understand the world around them and to search for
meaning in their own lives. The book seeks to help students improve their reading comprehension and to read with better concentration, enjoyment, and confidence.