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Perin, Dolores – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Skills in reading, writing, and mathematics are key to academic learning but are conventionally taught separately from the discipline areas to which they must be applied. For example, students may be taught writing skills in the morning in an English course and then be expected to apply them to writing an essay in a history class in the afternoon.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Writing Skills, Learning Motivation, Skill Development
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Emmerich, Paul – Reading Improvement, 1977
Gives faculty members without formal training in reading a tool to assist in textbook selection at universities in bilingual settings. (RL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students, Check Lists
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Kurland, Daniel J. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Examines the nature of scientific discussion and places the problem of scientific literacy within the broad context of critical analytic reading skills. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Discussion (Teaching Technique)