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Critical Reading Strategies

College Reading Skills and Strategies
Audrey J. Roth and Sue Kahn
Offers strategies to help students become more skillful critical readers, and further challenges these skills through a range of exercises.
©1989

I Know What It Says. . . What Does It Mean?
Daniel J. Kurland
Empowers scholars to read with insight and understanding by applying basic everyday thinking skills.
©1995

How To Read A Book
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren
This guide presents a wide-ranging introduction to reading comprehension at various levels and within different genres of writing--from skimming to close reading and critique. Includes reading tests.
©1972