Bridging the Gap: College Reading

by Brenda D. Smith

Written for the mid to high-level developmental reading course, Bridging the Gap by Brenda Smith continues to be the #1 textbook choice of developmental reading educators.

Bridging the Gap was the first book to focus on how to read college textbooks. This theme has been broadened by linking textbook readings to recent news in the popular press and adding material on critical thinking and the Internet. A hallmark of the text, the end-of-chapter readings, represent the “bridges†of text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self; and the varying reading levels to permit individualization of assignments to meet varying student needs. A variety of academic disciplines are represented throughout, including psychology, history, biology, business, allied health, and English literature.

Genres: Professional Development

479 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1988

About the author

Professor of Social Work, University of Alabama

Reviews

[Kory]

Read this book for my ENG201 class at the University of Richmond. Not a bad book which offers excellent examples of graphic organization, and various ideas for note-taking such as utilizing the Cornell method.

[Heather]

This textbook is terrible. It's uninspiring, expensive, and filled with typos.