Full Description
READING FOR THINKING, 9th Edition is filled with high-interest and thought-provoking readings drawn from textbooks, magazines, and newspapers. Its step-by-step approach, helps demonstrate that learning to read critically is only an enlargement of what you've already learned about comprehension, not a distinctly different skill.
Contents
1. Acquiring the Keys to Academic Success.
2. Vocabulary Building for College Reading.
3. Recognizing Main ideas in Paragraphs and Longer Readings.
4. Understanding the Functions of Supporting Details.
5. Identifying and Learning from Organizational Patterns.
6. Understanding, Outlining, and Summarizing Longer Readings.
REVIEWING WITH LONGER READINGS.
Heredity or Environment: What Can Identical Twins Tell us.
The Untold Story of Women Combatants in the Civil War.
Appalachia's Long, Proud Tradition Of Labor Militancy.
7. The Role of Inferences in Comprehension and Critical Reading.
8. Synthesizing Sources.
9. Understanding the Differences Between Fact and Opinion.
10. Analyzing Arguments.
11. Evaluating Arguments.
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER.
Surveillance is Pervasive.
Ernest Shackleton: A Leadership Legend.
Why Robots Need To Be Able to Say No.
Harvey Milk, Activist and Politician, Led a Revolution.
