College Vocabulary Skills and Strategies

Download or read book College Vocabulary Skills and Strategies written by Elizabeth G. Branch and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For courses in Developmental English including Fundamentals of Reading and Vocabulary Development. This text stresses the need for students to incorporate new words into their personal vocabulary to enhance their lives and academic careers. This learning objective is achieved through practice; the text utilizes ample fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple-choice exercises to teach definitions, pronounciation, and context clues. An entire section of the text deals with strategies for learning new words and focuses on discipline-specific words in medicine, business, law enforcement, psychology, and computer science.