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 | Ten Skills You Really Need to Succeed in College, 1st Edition
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 | | John Langan, ATLANTIC CAPE CMTY COLLEGE
| | Softcover, 224 pages | | ©2003, ISBN-13 9780072819557 | | | Publisher's Retail Price:$19.06
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| | Bookstore's Wholesale Price:$15.25
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| | | 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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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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.
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