Basic College Vocabulary Strategies (2nd Edition)

Basic College Vocabulary approaches vocabulary development with a unique and proven systematic strategy called SSCD—See and Say the word, use Structural analysis, apply Context clues and incorporate Dictionary knowledge. The text addresses the need for identifying learning styles and reinforces the system with techniques to develop a repertoire of memory steps to improve retention of information.

Before college students can learn new vocabulary
words, they must understand how they learn.

This new basic vocabulary text addresses the need for identifying learning styles by exposing students to the VARK Learning Inventory—encouraging every type of learner to use the skills they already have to learn and use hundreds of new words.

BASIC COLLEGE VOCABULARY STRATEGIES also approaches vocabulary development with a unique and proven systematic strategy called SSCD: (1) See and Say the word; (2) use Structural analysis; (3) apply Context clues; and (4) incorporate Dictionary knowledge.