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Cengage Improve Your Reading 2004 Edition by Ron Fry
No gimmicky speed-reading method, Improve Your Reading presents a practical way to increase what an individual learns from texts, notes, and resources. It's not how much or how fast one can read that matters, but how much one can understand and remember. Whether reading texts or their own notes, the reader will learn effective reading comprehension skills required for success in high school, college, and throughout life. Table of contents :- 1. The Basis of All Study Skills. 2. Reading with Purpose. 3. Finding the Main Idea. 4. Gathering the Facts. 5. The Challenge of Technical Texts. 6. Becoming a Critical Reader. 7. Reading the Literature. 8. Focusing your Mind. 9. Retaining the Information. 10. Let's Read up on ADD. 11. Build your Own Library. 12. Reading: A Lifelong Activity