College Culture, Student Success helps develop reading, writing and thinking skills as well as become familiar with the common customs, underlying assumptions, and strategies for success associated with being a college student.
- Timely issues that resonate with today’s students are explored, including distance learning, bilingualism, social networking, writing for the Web, learning disabilities, single parenting, and plagiarism.
- Professional and student writers bring a wide range of perspectives that particularly speak to the experiences of non-traditional students.
- Pre-reading questions help students practice the skills of previewing and predicting: Making It Matter questions ask students to search their own backgrounds for what they already know about a topic and create a context for what they are about to learn in the reading. Breaking It Down questions encourage students to consider how rhetorical modes and specific writing techniques are employed in the piece
- Making It Matter questions ask students to search their own backgrounds for what they already know about a topic and create a context for what they are about to learn in the reading.
- Breaking It Down questions encourage students to consider how rhetorical modes and specific writing techniques are employed in the piece
- Questions for Writing and Discussion after each reading provide an opportunity for students to think critically about what they have read and how it relates to them as college students while also investigating and practicing the different rhetorical modes.
- Making Connections questions at the end of each chapter invite students to compare and contrast rhetorical approaches and points of view so that they wrestle with diverse ideas and strategies as they practice analytical skills.
- An Exploring the Web section at the end of each chapter offers online resources for students, including information about scholarships, time management, and study skills.
- Half the size and cost of typical readers, “Longman Topics” can be used alone or paired with other texts.
- Timely issues that resonate with today’s students are explored, including distance learning, bilingualism, social networking, writing for the Web, learning disabilities, single parenting, and plagiarism.
- Professional and student writers bring a wide range of perspectives that particularly speak to the experiences of non-traditional students.
- Pre-reading questions help students practice the skills of previewing and predicting: Making It Matter questions ask students to search their own backgrounds for what they already know about a topic and create a context for what they are about to learn in the reading. Breaking It Down questions encourage students to consider how rhetorical modes and specific writing techniques are employed in the piece
- Making It Matter questions ask students to search their own backgrounds for what they already know about a topic and create a context for what they are about to learn in the reading.
- Breaking It Down questions encourage students to consider how rhetorical modes and specific writing techniques are employed in the piece
- Questions for Writing and Discussion after each reading provide an opportunity for students to think critically about what they have read and how it relates to them as college students while also investigating and practicing the different rhetorical modes.
- Making Connections questions at the end of each chapter invite students to compare and contrast rhetorical approaches and points of view so that they wrestle with diverse ideas and strategies as they practice analytical skills.
- An Exploring the Web section at the end of each chapter offers online resources for students, including information about scholarships, time management, and study skills.
- Half the size and cost of typical readers, “Longman Topics” can be used alone or paired with other texts.
