Reading Skills, Study Skills, Education 

New Worlds is an introductory college reading improvement text that applies the successful approach of the authors' Opening Doors and Comprehending College Textbooks, and Janet Elder's Exercise Your College Reading Skills, in a format designed to help lower-level developmental reading students succeed in college. It presents skills clearly, in a scaffolded approach that emphasizes comprehension and provides thorough, on-going practice and application of skills. This new edition includes a full-color format, fuller explanations, dozens of new and updated excerpts and introductions, six new reading selections, two new chapter-length selections, practice exercises introduced with a brief review, expanded coverage of paragraph patterns, enhanced chapter review cards, and new premium resources for students and instructors on the free Online Learning Center. - from Amzon