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Agardy, Franklin J. – 1981
Written so that the reader participates almost as if in a game, this book is aimed at achieving five goals: reading faster, understanding better, remembering longer, learning more easily, and thinking more clearly. Chapters discuss the following: (1) reading dynamics; (2) Evelyn Wood; (3) how to increase reading speed; (4) how to increase…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits, Reading Improvement
Download full textRaygor, Alton L., Ed. – 1962
This yearbook is a report of the papers presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the North Central Reading Association. The titles and authors of the papers included are: "Recent Research in College and Adult Reading" by Edward G. Summers; "The Definition of Reading" by Earl F. Rankin; "The Effect of Reading Training on College Achievement" by…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Educational Television
MILLER, JUSTIN H. – 1966
TRENDS EVIDENT IN ADULT READING DURING THE 1960'S IN THE AREAS OF ADMINISTRATION, PROGRAMS, TEACHING, TECHNIQUES, RESEARCH PROJECTS, AND METHODS OF PROMOTION OF READING PROGRAMS ARE DISCUSSED. TWO INSTANCES OF COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION BASED ON INTENSE AND OFTEN FALLACIOUS ADVERTISING AND ON PUBLIC IGNORANCE ARE CITED. A POSITIVE TREND IN THE AREA…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Educational Trends, Inner Speech (Subvocal)
Raygor, Alton L., Ed. – 1963
This yearbook contains the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the North Central Reading Association. The titles and authors of the papers included are: "Speed Reading vs. Effective Developmental Reading" by Lester Van Gilder; "Counseling and Reading, Their Interrelationship" by Boyd Jackson; "Recent Research in College and Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Developmental Reading, Inservice Education
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1968
Focusing on multidisciplinary aspects of college and adult reading, the 27 articles in this volume were drawn from the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1967. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: psychological embarrassments of reading, rapid reading, reading rate, tutoring in a college…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972
This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on junior college and college reading programs and problems, the 40 papers are arranged into the following categories: designs for programs, special admission students, ethnically different students, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Programs
