In Defense of Reading


Book Description

Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable insights for teachers and students on why we read and how we read when we embark on "the odyssey of reading." Provides valuable insights into why and how we read Addresses issues and problems in the contemporary university and offers insights into the future Explores the life of the mind, the rewards and joys of committed teaching, and the relationship between teaching and scholarship in the contemporary university Draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience Following his long term commitment to close reading and historicism, Schwarz shows how the best literary criticism must both respect text and context Contains insightful and important readings of a broad range of texts, including those by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer, and Spiegelman's Maus




Problems in Argument Analysis and Evaluation


Book Description

No detailed description available for "Problems in Argument Analysis and Evaluation".




Mind Benders Level 8


Book Description




PDP Cornell Notes


Book Description

Studies suggest that when students are taught a structured note-taking strategy, engagement, reading comprehension and retention increase. Teach your students this systematic note-taking process and witness the difference it makes in your students' understanding of non-fiction text and their abilities to navigate it. Students will enjoy the high interest, adolescent friendly articles (with Spanish translations) and the 'scaffolded' forms provide the assistance students need to master this powerful content area strategy. This is one tool your students must have in their comprehension repertoire.




Critical Thinking in Psychology


Book Description

Explores key topics in psychology, showing how they can be critically examined.




Building Thinking Skills: (MP 52.01)


Book Description

Provides an ... effective tool for implementing analysis skills ... necessary for success in all academic disciplines.







Critical Thinking


Book Description

Unique in perspective, this book provides a general approach to critical thinking skills that can be applied to all disciplines. With an emphasis on writing, as well as on deciding what to believe or do, it offers extended discussions, examples, and practice of such skills as observing, making judgments, planning experiments, and developing ideas and alternatives.




Recent Books