The Reader's Handbook, Third Edition, is a reference manual for students to use as a textbook and as a reading reference tool to provide the skills, strategies, and techniques necessary for effective reading in college and everyday life. Incorporating sources from academic, personal, and business materials, the Handbook is a long term reference book students can return to later in their academic or professional careers. Flexible textbook--resource format enables instructors to use a variety of reading materials and select or emphasize chapters that reflect the expectations, demands, and interests of their particular student populations and institutions. A diverse selection of sources from academic, personal, and business materials provides long-term references that students can return to later in their academic or professional careers. The Reader's Handbook reaches students at various reading levels and is serves as an easy-to-use reference tool or textbook. MARKET: Developmental Reading courses 6th-9th grade levels, Developmental Reading courses 9th-12th grade levels, Developmental Reading courses 10th-12th+ grade levels.