"Reading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in t…
"Reading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in t…
Designed for reading courses at the intermediate and advanced level. As in past editions, this text continues to feature a wide range of interesting and diverse selections, excellent coverage of critical reading skills, and a concluding section on reading short stories. Using pr…
"Information literacy involves a combination of reading, writing, and critical thinking. Librarians in an academic library, while not directly responsible for teaching those skills, are involved in making such literacy part of the students' learning process. Broussard approaches…
Information literacy involves a combination of reading, writing, and critical thinking. Librarians in an academic library, while not directly responsible for teaching those skills, are involved in making such literacy part of the students' learning process. Broussard approaches …
In six chapters-including a final chapter on turning theory into practice-Reading, Research, and Writing is an in-depth, interdisciplinary look at the literature in rhetoric and composition studies, reading comprehension, cognitive psychology, education theory, and library and i…
Different courses, common concern -- Can students read? -- Critical reading for academic purposes -- Critical reading for social engagement -- So now what? "Faculty often worry that students can't or won't read critically, a foundational skill for success in academic purposes a…
Different courses, common concern -- Can students read? -- Critical reading for academic purposes -- Critical reading for social engagement -- So now what? "Faculty often worry that students can't or won't read critically, a foundational skill for success in academic purposes a…