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Skill Set: Strategies for Reading and Writing is designed to help students build vocabulary, grammar, writing, and editing skills while improving their reading and comprehension.Using clear, straightforward explanations of how to avoid and correct typical problems, Part I helps students develop the aptitude and the confidence to express themselves in the written word. Skill-strengthening exercises and activities throughout each unit reinforce the material by encouragingstudents to apply the lessons they have just learned.Part II contains fifteen readings - both fiction and non-fiction - each accompanied by comprehension and discussion questions, exercises, and assignment suggestions. These features will help readers learn skills, such as using rhetorical techniques and recognizing the difference betweenconversational and academic writing.Comprehensive and straightforward, Skill Set is a text that will fully satisfy the needs of students and instructors alike.