Bridging the Gap: College Reading
- ISBN-10
- 0673466914
- ISBN-13
- 9780673466914
- Series
- Bridging the Gap
- Category
- Reading (Higher education)
- Pages
- 451
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Addison Wesley Publishing Company
- Author
- Brenda D. Smith
Description
"Bridging the Gap" was the first book to focus on how to read college textbooks. This college-level focus has since evolved to connect textbook readings to academic and everyday reading sources and represent three bridges of reading: text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self.
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