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Designed to help students become jazzed about reading, this introductory-to-intermediate reading text provides motivating and engaging readings selected to grab the reader's attention. Reading and All That Jazz, Third Edition, also features clear explanations and a wide variety of well-developed practice exercises designed to provoke genuine thinking, interpretation, and even some improvisation on the part of the student and the instructor. The theme of jazz encourages a positive, exciting, personally involved approach to reading and learning.
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For college freshmen, Mather and McCarthy (developmental reading, critical and evaluative reading, and ESL, Glendale Community College, Arizona) offer a textbook meant to help improve reading skills and in this edition, emphasizes critical thinking. It covers basic and classroom skills, reading as an interpretive process, and writing and organization. This edition has more information on using the internet, new illustrations and quotations, new readings by authors such as Annie Dillard, Dave Barry, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Rachel Carson; is in full-color; and has revised and expanded explanations, biographical sketches, activities, and exercises. The book lacks a bibliography. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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