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Summary
Summary
"Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, teaches the essential reading and study skills required for success in college." The cornerstone of the Wiener/Bazerman System, Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, retains the features that have made it a bestseller for more than twenty-five years: flexible format, high-interest readings, clear explanations, and a multitude of practice exercises. The step-by-step approach encourages students to move with confidence from simple to more complex skills. An anthology of readings helps students apply newly learned skills in selections drawn from books, magazines, and newspapers and including essays, articles, textbook pages, journals, fiction, photographs, illustrations, cartoons, advertisements, and Web sites-in short, the wide range of reading opportunities available to today's readers at home or on the job.
Table of Contents
| Note: Each chapter ends with Exercises and a Self Test |
| Each unit ends with a Unit Review |
| Handbook |
| Introduction |
| 1 The Reading Process |
| I Vocabulary |
| 2 Building a Strong Vocabulary |
| 3 Using a Dictionary |
| II Comprehension |
| 4 Reading Aids |
| 5 Visual Aids |
| 6 Reading for the Main Idea |
| 7 Reading for Information |
| 8 Recognizing Paragraph Patterns |
| III Interpretation and Evaluation |
| 9 Making Inferences |
| 10 Understanding Figurative Language |
| 11 Drawing Conclusions and Predicting Outcomes |
| 12 Generalizing |
| 13 Evaluating Ideas |
| IV The Basic Study Skills |
| 14 Writing for Reading |
| 15 Understanding Exam Questions |
| Reading Selections 1: "How I'll Become an American,"Milos Vamos |
| 2 "Foul Shots,"Rogelio R. Gomez |
| 3 "How to Lose Weight--and Whether You Should,"Carole Wade and Carol Tavris |
| 4 "Six Keys to Quicker Learning,"Patricia Skalka |
| 5 "How to Write a Business Letter,"Malcolm Forbes |
| 6 "My Husband's Nine Wives,"Elizabeth Joseph |
| 7 "What's Your Best Time of Day?"Susan Perry and Jim Dawson |
| 8 "Putting America on Rubber Tires,"Thomas A. Bailey and David M. Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen |
| 9 "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl,"Elizabeth Wong |
| 10 "Underground Dads,"Wil Haygood |
| 11 "What Is News?"Alan R. Gitelson and Robert L. Dudley and Melvin J. Dubnick |
| 12 "In My Father's House,"David Masello |
| 13 "The Infant Grows Attached,"Douglas Bernstein et al. |
| 14 "An Introduction to Sociology,"Richard T. Schaefer and Robert P. Lamm |
| 15 "Balancing the Babies and the Books,"Halimah Abdullah |
| 16 "Looking Forward, Looking Back,"Robert DeBlois |
| 17 "Obscenity,"James Q. Wilson and John J. DiIulio |
| 18 "How They Get You to Do That,"Janny Scott |
| 19 "New World Daughters,"Judy Mann |
| 20 "To Make a DNA Print,"Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa |
| 21 "Apostles of the Faith That Books Matter,"Vivian Gornick |
| 22 "Minority Student,"Richard Rodriguez |
