brushing up on your reading, thinking, and study skills Mather, Peter creator author. McCarthy, Rita author. text New York McGraw-Hill c2016 Fourth edition. monographic eng

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xxi, 541 pages : illustrations. Contents: Part 1 Life in college and beyond: Chapter 1 Developing a college-level vocabulary -- Part 2 Discovering meaning through structure: Chapter 2 Topics, main ideas, and details -- Chapter 3 Organizing textbook information and interpreting visual aids -- Chapter 4 The author's purpose and the rhetorical modes -- Chapter 5 Transition words and patterns of organization -- Part 3 Interpreting what we read: Chapter 6 Interference -- Chapter 7 Figurative language -- Chapter 8 Tone -- Part 4 Reading Critically: Chapter 9 Fact and opinion -- Chapter 10 Point of view -- Chapter 11 Bias -- Chapter 12 Analyzing and evaluating arguments -- Part 5: Vocabulary units. Peter Mather, Rita McCarthy. Includes appendix and index. Junrel Capuno Junior High School English English Reading Higher education Critical thinking Study skills 9780073513591[paperback] 230703 20250918104722.0