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Summary
Summary
With particular emphasis on helping readers hone their critical thinking skills, this book presents more exercise work than comparable books to help develop college-level reading skills and strategies. The book begins with basic reading skills on a literal level and progresses to more complex inferential skills, including critical evaluation of reading material. The book provides opportunities for readers to make relationships, organize ideas, and analyze and synthesize new information. Activities are designed to foster critical thinking, reasoning, questioning, and evaluating. Each chapter begins with objectives and then offers explanations of each skill supported by examples and exercises. Each chapter also contains two longer reading selections which provide the opportunity to practice the skills learned. Other important skills covered in the book include vocabulary development, study skills, reading graphics, and test-taking. For anyone interested in developing college-level English skills.
Table of Contents
I Strategies For Literal Comprehension |
1 Preparing for Meaningful Reading |
Reasons for Developing Good Reading Skills |
Your Present Reading Strategies |
Strategies to Get You Focused Before ReadingRebecca J. Donatelle and Lorraine G. Davis |
Behavior Change TechniquesPatricia Skalka |
Six Keys to Quicker Learning |
2 Getting Involved with Words |
Clues to Learning Word Meaning from Context |
Unlocking Word Meaning by Structural Analysis |
Using the Dictionary |
Methods of Remembering New WordsCaryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett |
Just What Family Values Are Normal?Elaine C. Ray |
Commuter Marriage: Does It Work? |
3 Recognizing Topics, Stated Main Idea Sentences, and Supporting Details |
Strategies to Unlock Meaning |
Finding the Subject or Topic |
Distinguishing among TopicsMain Ideas and Supporting Details |
Finding the Stated Main Idea in a Paragraph |
Underlining and Making Marginal NotesPaul Nolting |
Different Skills to Be Used for Math CoursesRichard Rodriquez |
Public Language and Private Language |
4 Supporting Details and Other Guides to Paragraph Organization |
The Difference Between Major and Minor Supporting Details |
Transitions, or Signal Words, Form Bridges Linking IdeasRobert V. Kail and John C. Cavanaugh |
Television's Influence on Attitudes, Social Behavior, Creativity, and Cognition Pete Hamill, Crack and the Box |
II Strategies for Critical Reading |
5 Inference and Implied Main Ideas |
Analysis and Synthesis |
Inferring a Main Idea from Supporting Details |
Supplying Implied Causes |
Making Valid Inferences |
Identifying an Unstated or Implied Main Idea |
Supplying an Implied Main Idea |
The Sequence or Order of Ideas |
Working with Transitions and Key Words to Order Paragraphs |
Inferring Word Relationships: Analogies |
Lester Lefton, Effects of Alcohol |
Vincent Ryan Ruggiero, Examining Conformity |
6 Reading to Evaluate |
Distinguishing Fact from Opinion |
Recognizing Common Propaganda Techniques |
Detecting Bias |
Evaluating Arguments and Making Logical InferencesJames M. Henslin |
Whose History?Jeffrey Waggoner |
The Assassination of President Kennedy |
7 Interpreting Purpose, Tone, and Figurative Language |
The Writer's Purpose |
The Writer's Tone |
Figurative Language |
Natalie Angier, As Lazy as a Beaver |
Eudora Welty, The Worn Path |
III Study Techniques |
8 Strategies for Study and Active Reading |
Review of Strategies for Difficult Reading |
Finding Study Time |
When to Review |
Note Taking to Help You Review |
Group Study or Collaborative Work |
Strategies for Developing Your Memory Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
My Guiding Light Michael and Suzanne Osborn |
Overcoming Barriers to Effective Listening |
9 Reading Visuals |
Finding Your Way Around |
Following Directions for Making Grids |
Reading Visuals: Is It a Table or a Figure |
Guidelines for Reading Visuals James M. Henslin |
Who Is Unemployed? Perri Capell |
Nerds Get Best Jobs Tough Guys Finish Last |
10 Test-Ta |