MHHE - Product Details

Description

This first joint-publishing venture between McGraw-Hill and John Langan's Townsend Press is a guide book to the essential skills necessary for students to make the transition from high school to college.

Table of Contents

1. Looking Inside Yourself

2. Thinking Clearly

3. Reading for Pleasure and Power

4. Managing Your Time

5. Taking Notes in Class

6. Improving Your Memory and Study Power

7. Reading Textbooks and Taking Notes

8. Taking Tests

9. Achieving Basic Goals in Writing

10. Understanding the Writing Process

Final Matters

Essay Writing in a Nutshell

Research in a Nutshell

A Brief Note on Fitness

A Skill for Living Well: Kindness

About the Authors

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both reading and writing, he enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Glassboro State Collee. He also spent a year writing fiction.

New Features

Exercises.Excellent end-of-chapter activities include comprehension quizzes, writing questions, and speaking questions.

Unique. The text offers unique chapters such as Reading for Pleasure and Power and Looking Inside Yourself.

Price. At $10 list, this practical primer for college life and work can be used in courses that may not usually use a book, or as a package item with an introductory text in any discipline.

Interviews. Photos and testimonials illustrate the book, personalizing the skills the text teaches.