Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Longma
Keywords: book, reading, academic
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2006-08-06
List price: $82.20
ISBN-10: 0321364791
ISBN-13: 9780321364791

Academic Reading is an advanced reading text that provides reading comprehension and critical thinking strategies for reading in the major academic disciplines, and has been written in consultation with teachers from across each discipline.

Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: vocabulary, expanding
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-10-11
List price: $27.60
ISBN-10: 0205645860
ISBN-13: 9780205645862

Expanding Your Vocabulary improves students’ vocabulary through concise instruction and extensive application using discipline-based readings.   Based on Kathleen McWhorter’s 25 years of experience teaching developmental courses and discovering how students learn best and the means to improve learning, Expanding Your Vocabulary gets students refining their skills through practice with authentic reading passages, addresses discipline-specific vocabulary in ten academic fields, and provides lists of high utility words and content readings student can use to practice and apply all the ski

Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: vocabulary, college, building, strategies, simplified
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-04-29
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 032114256X
ISBN-13: 9780321142566

This vocabulary work-text contains concise instruction and extensive practice exercises. Brief and inexpensive, it presents dictionary and thesaurus usage, context clues and word parts. The book also demonstrates methods of vocabulary learning, such as index cards and vocabulary logs. Interesting aspects of language study are explored, as well; topics include euphemisms, neologisms, connotative meanings, and analogies. The book offers eleven lists of high-utility new words arranged by academic discipline. Practices are offered for each topic covered.

Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: career, applications, major, college, reading, academic
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2009-11-15
List price: $82.20
ISBN-10: 0205736580
ISBN-13: 9780205736584

In Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications, Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that develops higher-level comprehension, vocabulary, and thinking skills while introducing readers to the six most popular academic disciplines and career fields and how to adapt their reading skills for these fields.

Author: Kathleen T. McWhorter
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: scenarios, writing, pathways
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2009-02-13
List price: $93.80
ISBN-10: 020561776X
ISBN-13: 9780205617760

Pathways: Writing Scenarios teaches sentence and paragraph writing skills through themed writing scenarios, a focus on ideas over rules, and connecting grammar and the writing process.  Covering all the significant topics at this level, the text also provides comprehensive and integrated coverage of the reading-writing connection (including a multicultural reader), instruction on methods of development, ESL Tips, paragraph-level editing exercises and collaborative activities, Internet activities, substantial online and ancillary support, and a four-color design.

Author: John McWhorter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: language, standard, grammars, acquisition, non, interrupted, signs, native
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-06-18
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195309804
ISBN-13: 9780195309805

Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat down claims that certain languages are "easier" than others, since it is assumed all languages are complex to the same degree. For example, they will point to English’s use of the word "do" -- Do you know French? This usage is counter-intuitive and difficult for non-native speakers. Lingu

Author: John McWhorter
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: america, black, sabotage, race, losing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060935936
ISBN-13: 9780060935931

For the past two decades, an academic cottage industry has developed to analyze--and some would say overemphasize--the social and educational problems of African Americans. Such writers as Dinesh D’Souza, Shelby Steele, Armstrong Williams, and Ken Hamblin have all contributed in this area; now add to that list John McWhorter, a Berkeley linguistics professor and the author of Word on the Street, an examination of Ebonics and Black English. The basic idea he presents in this occasionally insightful if flawed book is that African Americans are not advancing socially as a result of victimol