Author Description

Expanding Your Vocabulary improves students’ vocabulary through concise instruction and extensive application using discipline-based readings.Based on Kathleen McWhorter’s 25 years of experience teaching developmental courses and discovering how students learn best and the means to improve learning, Expanding Your Vocabulary gets students refining their skills through practice with authentic reading passages, addresses discipline-specific vocabulary in ten academic fields, and provides lists of high utility words and content readings student can use to practice and apply all the skills they have learned in the text.