College Vocabulary Skills and Strategies
- ISBN-10
- 0130971022
- ISBN-13
- 9780130971029
- Category
- Learning and scholarship
- Pages
- 164
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-10
- Authors
- Elizabeth G. Branch, Annie Jewett
Description
For courses in Developmental English including Fundamentals of Reading and Vocabulary Development. This text stresses the need for students to incorporate new words into their personal vocabulary to enhance their lives and academic careers. This learning objective is achieved through practice; the text utilizes ample fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple-choice exercises to teach definitions, pronounciation, and context clues. An entire section of the text deals with strategies for learning new words and focuses on discipline-specific words in medicine, business, law enforcement, psychology, and computer science.
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