Conversation Starters: Reading College Textbooks

Conversation Starters: Reading College Textbooks

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1. Other than college textbooks, other than emails and texting, what are you reading now (novels, newspapers, magazines)?

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2. Tell about any difficulties you have reading or comprehending college textbooks.

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3. Vanessa says that because textbooks are "always new material" it is hard to retain the information. What does she mean by this? What reading techniques might lessen Vanessa's anxiety and allow her to retain the information?