Dyslexia at College offers the most comprehensive and well researched guide for students and tutors to all aspects of coping with dyslexia and supporting dyslexic students at college. The style is very accessible and there is plenty of practical advice for students on how to choose, prepare for and adapt to the demands of further and higher education courses. For tutors, the book offers a wealth of insight and experience, especially in describing different approaches to common problems and in its emphasis on supporting self-esteem.
Reading-to-Write: Exploring a Cognitive and Social Process
The Social and Cognitive Studies in Writing and Literacy Series, is devoted to books that bridge research, theory, and practice, exploring social and cognitive processes in writing and expanding our knowledge of literacy as an active constructive process--as students move from high school to college. This descriptive study of reading-to-write examines a critical point in every college student's academic performance: when he or she is faced with the task of reading a source, integrating personal ideas, and creating an individual text with a self-defined purpose.
The book is a collection of tests designed for intermediate to advanced learners. It helps students to prepare for their exams. Students prepairing for FCE will find this resource very useful.
Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers
In Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers, Lee Ann Carroll argues for a developmental perspective to counter the fantasy held by many college faculty that students should, or could, be taught to write once so that ever after, they can write effectively on any topic, any place, any time. Carroll demonstrates in this volume why a one- or two-semester, first-year course in writing cannot meet all the needs of even more experienced writers. She then shows how students' complex literacy skills develop slowly, often idiosyncratically, over the course of their college years, as they choose or are coerced to take on new roles as writers.
Happy to be away from her large family for a while, Polly O'Keefe is spending the autumn with her maternal grandparents, Dr. Kate Murry and Dr. Alex Murry, getting a better education from them in science than she would have received at home. Soon, however, surprising things start to happen, including the unexpected arrival of Zachary Gray, a charming but troubled college student whom Polly met in Greece and dated on Cyprus the year before (in A House Like a Lotus).
