Synopses & Reviews
Whether you're reading a textbook for class, a how-to manual at work, or researching information on the Web, your reading skills affect your performance. This fully updated edition of Read Better, Remember More features practical pre- and post-tests to help you gauge your reading progress. Plus, each chapter includes practice exercises with answers to quickly test your new skills. The book also contains common prefixes, suffixes, and word roots that will help you understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. You will learn to find the main idea and distinguish it from supporting details; identify opinions disguised as facts; improve your reading IQ; and most importantly-remember and understand what you've read!
Synopsis
Whether you're studying for an exam, making your way through an instructional manual or keeping up with work-related magazines and newspaper articles, reading often makes the difference between success and failure. But it isn't how fast you read that's important. It's how well you understand what you read and how much of it you remember.This new edition includes:
-- All new pretest-assessment to help pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses
-- All new post-test to help gauge your improvement
-- New appendix on word roots, prefixes and suffixes
-- Most books on reading for adults focus on speed; this book helps you to retain what you read and remember key information