Guide to College Reading

Preface

PART I Success in College Reading

Chapter 1 Reading and Learning: Getting Started

   Understand What Is Expected in College

   Build Your Concentration

   Analyze Your Learning Style

   Improve Your Comprehension

   Read and Think Visually

   Use Writing to Learn

   Learn from and with Other Students

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: READING SELECTION: “The Allure of Disaster,” Eric G. Wilson

 

Chapter 2 The Basics of College Textbook Reading

   Textbooks as Learning Tools

   Preview

   Develop Questions to Guide Your Reading

   Read for Meaning

   Test Your Recall as You Read

   Review After You Read

   Building a System: SQ3R

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Working with Textbook Features

   Mastery Test 2: Thinking Skills

   Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “Looking for Love,” Jenifer Kunz

 

PART II Vocabulary: The Key to Meaning

Chapter 3 Using Context Clues

   What Is Context?

   Types of Context Clues

   The Limitations of Context Clues

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Vocabulary Skills

   Mastery Test 2: Vocabulary Skills

Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “Compulsive or Pathological Gambling,” Rebecca J. Donatelle

 

Chapter 4 Using Word Parts and Learning New Words

   Learn Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

   Learn New Words

   Select and Use a Dictionary

   Pronounce Unfamiliar Words

   A System for Learning New Words

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Vocabulary Skills

   Mastery Test 2: Dictionary Skills

   Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “The ‘McDonaldization’ of Society,” John J. Macionis

 

PART III Comprehension and Learning Skills

Chapter 5 Understanding Paragraphs: Topics and Main Ideas

   General and Specific Ideas

   Identify the Topic

   Find the Stated Main Idea

   Identify Topic Sentences

   Implied Main Ideas

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Paragraph Skills

   Mastery Test 2: Paragraph Skills

   Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “War Torn,” Joshua Kors

 

Chapter 6 Understanding Paragraphs: Supporting Details and Transitions

   Recognize Supporting Details

   Types of Supporting Details

   Transitions

   Paraphrase Paragraphs

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Paragraph Skills

   Mastery Test 2: Paragraph Skills

   Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “Let There Be Dark,” Paul Bogard

 

Chapter 7 Following the Author’s Thought Patterns

   Six Common Thought Patterns

   Other Useful Patterns of Organization

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Identifying Patterns

   Mastery Test 2: Identifying Patterns

   Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “Right Place, Wrong Face,” Alton Fitzgerald White

 

PART IV Textbook Reading Skills

Chapter 8 Reading Visuals and Electronic Sources

   Read and Analyze Photographs

   Read and Interpret Graphics

   Types of Graphics

   Evaluate Internet Sources

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Graphic Skills

   Mastery Test 2: Graphic Skills

Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “Who Needs Marriage?” Mary Ann Schwartz and BarBara Marliene Scott

 

Chapter 9 Organizing and Remembering Information

   Highlighting and Marking

   Outlining

   Mapping

   Summarizing

   Immediate and Periodic Review

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Mapping and Summarizing Skills

   Mastery Test 2: Outlining Skills

Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Are You Sleep Deprived?” Saundra K. Ciccarelli and J. Noland White

 

PART V Critical Reading Skills

Chapter 10 Interpreting the Writer’s Message and Purpose

   Connotative Meanings

   Implied Meanings

   Figurative Language

   Understand the Author’s Purpose

   Tone

   Language

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Interpretive Skills

   Mastery Test 2: Interpretive Skills

   Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “Starbucks’ Global Expansion,” Warren J. Keegan and Mark C. Green

 

Chapter 11 Evaluating: Asking Critical Questions

   What Is the Source of the Material?

   What Is the Authority of the Author?

   Does the Writer Make Assumptions?

   Is the Author Biased?

   Is the Writing Slanted?

   How Does the Writer Support His or Her Ideas?

   Is It Fact or Opinion?

   Does the Writer Make Value Judgments?

   Self-Test Summary

   Mastery Test 1: Critical Reading Skills

   Mastery Test 2: Critical Reading Skills

Mastery Test 3: READING SELECTION: “Reality Check: Reality TV Does Not Make You Feel Better,” Rosie Molinary

 

PART VI A Fiction Minireader

   Reading and Interpreting Short Stories

   The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin

   The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe

   Little BrotherTM, Bruce Holland Rogers

   Reading and Interpreting Novels

   Prologue from Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

 

PART VII A Contemporary Issues Minireader

   Reading About Controversial Issues

Issue 1: Football Violence

   Is Football Wrong? Will Leitche

Issue 2: Discrimination Against Women

   Discrimination: Women Are Subject to Violence and Discrimination by Both the State and Society, Nadia Shahram

Issue 3: Texting between Students and Teachers

   Teachers Texting Students: Should Schools Ban or Encourage? Katherine Bindley

Issue 4: Cell Phones and Driving Safety

   Driving While on Cell Phone Worse than Driving While Drunk, Steven Reinberg, HealthDay

Issue 5: Pro and Con: Gun Ownership

   Pro: Why I Own Guns, Sam Harris

   Con: More Guns, More Mass Shootings—Coincidence? Mark Follman Issue 6: Pro and Con: Reviving Extinct Species

   Pro: The Case for Reviving Extinct Species, Stewart Brand    Con: The Case Against Species Revival, Stuart Pimm  

Credits

Index