| Preface |
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Part 1 Reading Strategies |
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3 | (9) |
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What Makes a Successful College Student? |
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3 | (1) |
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What Is Concentration, and How Can It Be Improved? |
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3 | (5) |
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What Are Successful Academic Behaviors? |
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8 | (4) |
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12 | (18) |
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What Is Strategic Reading? |
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12 | (2) |
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14 | (8) |
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How Do You Build Meaning While Reading? |
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22 | (4) |
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Why Recall After Reading? |
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26 | (4) |
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30 | (40) |
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How Do You Learn New Words? |
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30 | (2) |
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What Clues Help You Understand the Meanings of New Words? |
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32 | (24) |
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What Resources Can Help You with Words? |
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56 | (11) |
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67 | (3) |
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70 | (28) |
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70 | (1) |
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70 | (9) |
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79 | (2) |
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What Are the Strategies for Stating Main Ideas? |
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81 | (17) |
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98 | (17) |
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Can You Recognize Levels of Importance Among Details? |
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98 | (4) |
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Can You Distinguish Between Major and Minor Details? |
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102 | (13) |
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115 | (17) |
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What Are the Patterns for Organizing Ideas? |
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115 | (13) |
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How Do Transitional Words Signal Organizational Patterns? |
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128 | (4) |
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132 | (24) |
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132 | (9) |
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What Is Figurative Language? |
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141 | (5) |
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How Do You Recognize Implied Meaning? |
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146 | (4) |
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How Do You Draw Conclusions? |
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150 | (6) |
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156 | (17) |
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What Is the Author's Point of View? |
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156 | (4) |
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What Is the Reader's Point of View? |
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160 | (4) |
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How Do Facts and Opinions Differ? |
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164 | (2) |
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What Is the Author's Purpose? |
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166 | (2) |
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What Is the Author's Tone? |
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168 | (5) |
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173 | (16) |
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173 | (1) |
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How Do You Read Graphic Material and Visual Aids? |
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174 | (15) |
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189 | (46) |
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191 | (17) |
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What Is Critical Thinking? |
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191 | (2) |
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What Are the Steps in the Process of Critical Thinking? |
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193 | (15) |
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208 | (13) |
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What Is Your Reading Rate? |
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208 | (4) |
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What Are the Techniques for Faster Reading? |
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212 | (6) |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (2) |
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Techniques for Remembering Textbook Information |
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221 | (14) |
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How Do You Organize College Textbook Reading? |
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221 | (1) |
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221 | (3) |
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224 | (2) |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (3) |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (4) |
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Part 3 Reading in the Disciplines |
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235 | (90) |
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Reading in the Humanities |
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237 | (11) |
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237 | (1) |
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How Is History Interpreted? |
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237 | (5) |
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Are Speech and Communication More Than Just Words? |
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242 | (2) |
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What Is English Composition? |
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244 | (2) |
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English Composition Reader |
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246 | (2) |
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Reading Literature and Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction |
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248 | (15) |
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248 | (3) |
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251 | (2) |
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253 | (4) |
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What Are the Different Types of Contemporary Novels? |
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257 | (3) |
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What Are the Different Types of Contemporary Nonfiction? |
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260 | (1) |
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What Should You Consider When Selecting a Book? |
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261 | (2) |
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Reading in the Social Sciences |
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263 | (12) |
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What Are the Social Sciences? |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (3) |
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267 | (2) |
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What Is Political Science? |
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269 | (2) |
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For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Psychology |
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271 | (4) |
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Reading in the Life and Natural Sciences |
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275 | (14) |
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What Are the Life and Natural Sciences? |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (4) |
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What Are the Allied Health Sciences? |
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280 | (5) |
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What Is Environmental Science? |
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285 | (1) |
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For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Biology |
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286 | (3) |
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Reading in Mathematics and Computer Science |
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289 | (11) |
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How Can You Get the Most from Your Mathematics Textbook? |
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289 | (6) |
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How Can You Get the Most from Your Computer Science Textbook? |
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295 | (2) |
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For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Computer Science |
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297 | (3) |
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Reading in Business and Vocational Technology |
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300 | (14) |
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What Are the Goals of Business Courses? |
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300 | (1) |
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What Are the Features of Business Textbooks? |
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301 | (3) |
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Why Choose a Vocational or Technical School? |
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304 | (1) |
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What Are Electricity, Electronics, and Computer Technology? |
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305 | (2) |
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What Is Automotive Technology? |
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307 | (3) |
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For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Business |
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310 | (4) |
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Reading Scholarly Reference Works |
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314 | (11) |
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How Do You Find Relevant Research References? |
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314 | (4) |
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What Is the Format of Scholarly Articles? |
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318 | (3) |
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What Other Reference Works Are Available? |
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321 | (4) |
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Part 4 Reading in Everyday Life |
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325 | (50) |
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Reading Print and Electronic Media |
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327 | (27) |
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How Are Newspapers Organized and What Are Their Elements? |
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327 | (7) |
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How Do You Choose a Newspaper? |
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334 | (2) |
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How Do You Use Online Newspapers? |
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336 | (1) |
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How Do You Differentiate Magazines? |
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336 | (4) |
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How Do You Navigate the World Wide Web? |
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340 | (6) |
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How Do You Read Electronic Material Critically? |
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346 | (2) |
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How Can You Manage Your E-mail? |
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348 | (6) |
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Workplace and Personal Reading |
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354 | (21) |
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How Should You Manage Your Professional and Personal Reading? |
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354 | (1) |
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What Are the Different Types of Workplace Reading? |
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355 | (11) |
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How Should You Respond to a Letter? |
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366 | (1) |
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What Are the Different Parts of a Bill? |
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366 | (4) |
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How Do You Respond to Direct Mail Advertisements? |
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370 | (5) |
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Part 5 Reading Selections |
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378 | (10) |
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388 | (8) |
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396 | (8) |
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404 | (9) |
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413 | (7) |
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420 | (8) |
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428 | (8) |
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436 | (7) |
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443 | (9) |
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ESL Pointers: Making Sense of Figurative Language and Idioms |
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1 | (1) |
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| Glossary |
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1 | (1) |
| Credits |
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1 | (1) |
| Index |
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