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Download full textLinderholm, Tracy – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2006
In college-level courses, the vast majority of students read expository textbooks with a primary purpose in mind: to memorize and, hopefully, understand enough information to receive a particular grade on a course exam. Intuitively, this kind of reading is different than the kind of reading that these same students do when reading a novel while…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Memorization, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies
