Full Description
Taking your skills to the next level, Alexander/Jarrell's A COMMUNITY OF READERS: A THEMATIC APPROACH TO READING, Eighth Edition, helps you engage in all steps of the reading and learning process: reading, discussing and reflecting, writing and critical thinking. The unique PRO system -- Prepare to Read, Read Actively and Reflect, and Organize to Learn -- provides a concrete learning process that helps you examine fact and opinion, understand bias, identify main and supporting ideas, write effectively and much more. Each chapter also introduces a key reading skill, such as analyzing vocabulary or inferences, while focusing on a single theme to help you dig more deeply into the subject. Themes include college success, food, the environment and technology. An e-book version includes the MindTap digital learning solution, giving you a wealth of anywhere, anytime learning resources.
Contents
PART I: SKILLS INSTRUCTION AND THEMATIC READINGS.
1. The Reading Process: Succeeding in College.
2. Working with Words: Living with Technology.
3. Topics and Main Ideas: Our Food, Our Culture.
4. Support for Main Ideas: Staying Well.
5. Patterns of Organization: Our World, Our Environment.
6. Inferences and Reading Literature: Exploring Gender.
7. Facts and Opinions: Living in a Diverse Society.
8. Critical Thinking: Crime and Punishment.
Part II: ANTHOLOGY.
Additional Readings.
Additional Mastery Tests.
