TY - BOOK AU - Wilner,Arlene Fish ED - Gale (Firm) TI - Rethinking reading in college: an across-the-curriculum approach T2 - Gale eBooks SN - 9780814141236 AV - LB2395.3 .W565 2020 PY - 2020///] CY - Champaign, Illinois PB - NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English KW - Reading (Higher education) KW - United States KW - Reading comprehension KW - Academic achievement KW - Interdisciplinary approach in education N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; What's the problem? -- Close reading and the common core -- Reading, fast and slow -- Theory to practice : reading in first-year writing classes -- Theory to practice : reading across the curriculum -- The ethics of teaching reading -- Appendix 1. Facts and fiction : are literary texts a special case? -- Appendix 2. Sample reading-support instructions for history -- Appendix 3. Sample faculty-workshop exercise responses -- Appendix 4. Sample assignments for a first-year course sequence N2 - Synthesizing theory from literacy scholars with strategies derived from classroom inquiry projects, this book argues for more--and more systematic--attention to the role of reading comprehension in college as a necessary step in addressing the inequities in student achievement that otherwise increase over time. It shows how faculty at all curricular levels can improve student outcomes by rethinking their assumptions about what students know and can do as apprentices in a field UR - https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/53U4/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=phurs ER -