title: Textcerpts: Mastering College Textbook Reading (2nd Edition)
author:  Gene Wintner 
description: "Textcerpts" is a supplementary developmental reading text intended to facilitate the acquisition of textbook reading skills through the use of real textbook chapters. With twenty short excerpts and eight complete chapters representing eight different college disciplines, this unique text provides a solid orientation to the college disciplines, making it indispensable to instructors and students looking to bridge textbook reading skills to actual class content.
zlib_text: Universitext
  
  Universitext
  Series Editors:
  Sheldon Axler
  San Francisco State University
  Vincenzo Capasso
  Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
  Carles Casacuberta
  Universitat de Barcelona
  Angus J. MacIntyre
  Queen Mary College, University of London
  Kenneth Ribet
  University of California, Berkeley
  Claude Sabbah
  CNRS, ´Ecole Polytechnique
  Endre S¨uli
  University of Oxford
  Wojbor A. Woyczynski
  Case Western Reserve University
  Universitext is a series of textbooks that presents material from a wide variety of
  mathematical disciplines at master’s level and beyond. The books, often well
  class-tested by their author, may have an informal, personal even experimental
  approach to their subject matter. Some of the most successful and established
  books in the series have evolved through several editions, always following the
  evolution of teaching curricula, to very polished texts.
  Thus as research topics trickle down into graduate-level teaching, ﬁrst textbooks
  written for new, cutting-edge courses may ma