Improve your reading / Ron Fry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fry, Ronald W., author.

Series:

Ron Fry's how to study program.

Ron Fry's how to study program

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Study skills.

Reading.

Reading comprehension.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 unnumbered pages).

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2012

Summary:

Proven strategies for better reading skills—from comprehension, focus, and retention to overcoming challenges such as ADD. Whether it's for education or enjoyment, reading can be challenging. Understanding and remembering what you've read, and keeping focus and concentration when you have to read long or difficult texts, takes certain skills. Luckily, those skills can be learned and improved. In Improve Your Reading, education expert Ron Fry offers practical solutions to the reading-related frustrations all readers—and students—face. No gimmicks, no tricks, just proven techniques for any course, any academic level, any situation, and anyone in need of the essential tools to succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Contents:

Chapter 1: The basis of all study skills

Chapter 2: Reading with purpose

Chapter 3: Finding the main idea

Chapter 4: Gathering the facts

Chapter 5: The challenge of technical texts

Chapter 6: Becoming a critical reader

Chapter 7: Reading the literature

Chapter 8: Focusing your mind

Chapter 9: Retaining the information

Chapter 10: Let's read up on ADD

Chapter 11: Building your own library

Chapter 12: Reading: a lifelong activity.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781504055253

150405525X