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A Strategic Manual for Critical Readers, Thinkers and Writers

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A Strategic Manual for Critical Readers, Thinkers and Writers

First Edition   Pescar, De La Toba, © 2017, 197 pages

This textbook is suitable for any critical thinking or reading course.

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978-1-5178-0013-0 		Unbound textbook 978-1-5178-0013-0 (9781517800130) $55 $80
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978-1-5178-0328-5 		Online eBook 978-1-5178-0328-5 (9781517803285) $35 $52

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About the Authors

Barbara Pescar person
Claudia De La Toba person
Professor Claudia De La Toba currently works at San Diego Mesa College in the English Department, and Southwestern College in the Language and Literature Department, teaching reading and writing skills. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from San Diego University. She then went on to receive a BA in Behavioral Science, a Master of Arts in Education, and an MA in Teaching with a Reading Specialization from National University.

For the past 23 years, Professor De La Toba has worked at the high school and university level as both a teacher and a mentor in general and special education. Her experiences as an educator have taken her beyond English, reading and writing, and into areas such as librarianship, language, and world religions. She served on a Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Committee creating curriculums and study skills that prepare students for high school entrance exams. She also developed learning programs and evaluations for grades PK-8.

Throughout her formative and professional years, she has discovered the importance of learning from her students and colleagues. Her goals for the future are to teach, to offer knowledge, and to create new programs to help future generations. She loves to read, travel, and swim. She lives in San Diego along with her husband, two daughters and son.

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A Strategic Manual for Critical Readers, Thinkers and Writers is a manual style textbook that provides a set of critical reading, thinking, and writing strategies for instructors and students to utilize as they engage with a prescribed curriculum of reading, writing, and study skills for college coursework. These reading and critical thinking tools help students to analyze their thought process as they engage with reading the text, thinking critically and metacognitively, as well as learning to respond to what they read by utilizing the writing process. Through this practice students develop important critical thinking and metacognition skills along with other reading and writing strategies ensuring their academic success across many disciplines. This proposed text is easily adapted to an E-text which makes it a natural component for any of the popular technological course components currently being marketed.

Each chapter contains specific topics for students to focus on the logical progression of reading and writing strategies while navigating their comprehension progress within each chapter.

This manual will include bibliographies, strategic critical reading, thinking, and writing activities, index, technological resources, and visual literacy.

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