Breaking Through
College Reading, with Alternate Readings (book alone)
7th Edition
Published on 17. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
572 pages
978-0-321-41924-8 (ISBN)
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Breaking Through: College Reading, 7e with Alternate Readingsoffers 31 new reading selections at the end of each chapter. The core instruction and pedagogy remain the same as the current Seventh Edition, but the readings remain fresh and interesting for both teachers and students each semester. Breaking Through provides instruction and practice on the reading and study skills necessary for successful college learning. The use of actual college textbook passages offers realistic and immediate modeling and application of college study and reading skills.
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7th edition
Language
English
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United States
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Pearson Education (US)
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1143 gr
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978-0-321-41924-8 (9780321419248)
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Content
Preface
1. Student Success
Think Success
Set Goals
Create a Positive Attitude
Seek Excellence
Reading 1: Making Choices for Success
from Live Your Dream by Les Brown
"Ask yourself if you are leaving a trail that others may want to follow."
Plan for Success
Reading 2: Making the Most of Priorities
from How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein
"People at the top and people at the bottom both know about To Do Lists, but one difference between them is that the people at the top use a To Do List every single day...."
Plan Your Week
Study the Syllabus
Use a Calendar to Decode a Syllabus
Act Successful
College Professor "Takes" American History
Attend Class
Be on Time for Class
Be Aware of Essential Class Sessions
Be Equipped for Success
Mark Your Text
Communicate with Your Instructor
Review Your Lecture Notes
Network with Other Students
Collaborate to Divide Work
Look at an "A" Paper
Use Technology to Communicate
Consider a Tape Recorder
Pass the First Test
Watch Videos or DVDs
Predict Exam Questions
Reading 3: Life Law #5: Life Rewards Action
from Life Strategies by Phillip C. McGraw
"People don't care about your intentions. They care about what you do."
Summary Points
Everyday Reading Skills: Searching the Internet
2. Stages of Reading
What Is the Reading Process?
Stages of Reading
Stage One: Previewing
Stage Two: Integrating Knowledge
Stage Three: Recalling
Assess Your Progress as a Learner
Levels of Reading Comprehension
Summary Points
Selection 1: Psychology
"Loneliness"
from Psychology Applied to Modern Life, Seventh Edition by Wayne Weiten and Margaret Lloyd
"Telephone hotlines for troubled people report that complaints of loneliness dominate their calls."
Selection 2: Essay
"Medical Care for Prisoners"
from Morality Play by Jessica Pierce
"You commit a serious crime, and you are likely to get most of the medical care you need all paid for by taxpayers."
Selection 3: Business
"Contract-Free Calling"
from The New York Times, 8/11/05, by Mark Walsh
"Providing a simpler alternative to complex and confusing cellular plans is a major selling point."
Vocabulary Lesson: Not , Not, and Not
Everyday Reading Skills: Reading News and Feature Stories in the Newspaper
3. Vocabulary
Learning New Words
Remembering New Words
Use Association
Use Concept Cards
Practice Your New Words
Unlocking the Meaning of New Words
Use Context Clues
Use Knowledge of Word Parts
Use the Glossary and the Dictionary
Types of Context Clues
Definition
Elaborating Details
Elaborating Examples
Comparison
Contrast
Multiple Meanings of a Word
Word Parts
Roots
Prefixes
Suffixes
The Dictionary
Guide Words
Pronunciation
Spelling
Word Meaning
Parts of Speech
Word History
Word Origins
Etymology
Textbook Glossary
Thesaurus
Analogies
Easily Confused Words
Enriching your Vocabulary
Summary Points
Vocabulary Lesson: For or Against?
Everyday Reading Skills: Joining a Mailing List or a Newsgroup
4. Main Idea
What Is a Main Idea?
Recognize General and Specific Words
Recognize General and Specific Phrases
Recognize the General Topic for Sentences
Recognize General and Supporting Sentences
Differentiate Topic, Main Idea, and Supporting Details
Differentiate Distractors in Main Idea Test Items
Questioning for the Main Idea
1. Establish the Topic
2. Identify the Key Supporting Terms
3. Focus on the Message of the Topic
Stated Main Ideas
Unstated Main Ideas
Getting the Main Idea of Longer Selections
Summary Points
Selection 1: Psychology
"Agoraphobia"
from Abnormal Psychology, Fourth Edition, by Johanna Schneller
"My heart was really pounding now, and I felt short of breath, as if wheels were rolling across my chest."
Selection 2: Literature
"All Quiet on the Western Front" (excerpt)
from: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
"I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently, slay one another."
Selection 3: History
"Potato Politics"
from A Brief History of Western Civilization, Third Edition, by Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, and Patricia O'Brien
"Proverbs warned peasants against putting all their eggs in one basket, but no folk wisdom prepared the Irish for the potato disaster that struck them."
Vocabulary Lesson: Before and After
Everyday Reading Skills: Selecting a Book
5. Supporting Details and Organizational Patterns
What Is a Detail?
Recognize Levels of Importance
Distinguish Major and Minor Details
Follow Detailed Directions
Patterns of Organization
Simple Listing
Classification
Definitions with Examples
Description
Time Order, Sequence, or Narration
Comparison and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Summary Points
Selection 1: Psychology
"Drug Addiction"
from Psychology, Ninth Edition, by Lester Lefton and Linda Brannon
"Avoiding drugs is only one step in the recovery process. It is also important to break the learned associations between drug use and the pleasurable emotional states associated with it."
Selection 2: Criminal Justice
"Juvenile Boot Camps"
from Juvenile Delinquency, Eighth Edition, by Larry Siegel, Brandon Welsh, and Joseph Senna
"Some juvenile corrections agencies feature shock incarceration programs, with high-intensity military discipline and physical training for short periods."
Selection 3: History
"The New Mass Culture"
from Out of Many, Fourth Edition, by John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan Armitrage
"A thriving advertising industry both reflected and encouraged the growing importance of consumer goods in American life."
Vocabulary Lesson: One Too Many
Everyday Reading Skills: Selecting Magazines
ReadingCasebook: What Is Beauty?
Beauty Inventory 1
Selection 1: Letter of Opinion
All That Glitters Is Gold
from The New York Times, 5/4/05, by Maureen Dowd
"Canadian researchers have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty children than they do ugly ones."
Selection 2: Essay
Extreme Makeover
from Morality Play by Jessica Pierce
"The popularity of Extreme Makeover may reflect a growing interest in, and acceptance of, plastic surgery as a way to alter one's physical appearance."
Selection 3: Business
Everyday Women
from The New York Times, 8/17/05, by Stuart Elliott
"Madison Avenue is increasingly interested in using everyday women in advertising instead of just waifish supermodels.
Beauty Inventory 2
6. Textbook Learning
Expect Knowledge to Exist
Annotating
When to Annotate
How to Annotate
Notetaking
When to Take Notes
How to Take Notes
Summarizing
When to Summarize
How to Summarize
Outlining
When to Outline
How to Outline
Mapping
When to Map
How to Map
Take Organized Lecture Notes
Summary Points
Selection 1: Health
Emergency Medical Technicians
from Exploring Health Care Careers, Second Edition, by Carole Bolster
"EMT work can be physically demanding. EMTs often work outside, in any type of weather and most of their time on a run is spent standing, kneeling, bending, and lifting."
Selection 2: Business
Federal Express
from Macroeconomics for Today, Third Edition, by Irvin Tucker
"FedEx is the world largest express transportation company with 3.2 million packages sorted and routed on an average night."
Selection 3: Communication
Gender Conflict and Style
from Understand Human Communication, Ninth Edition, by Ronald Adler and George Rodman
"Even in childhood, males are more likely to be overtly aggressive, demanding, and competitive, whereas females are move cooperative, or at least less directly aggressive."
Vocabulary Lesson: See, Hear, and Voice Your Concerns
Everyday Reading Skills: Reading Reference Materials
7. Test-Taking Strategies
Achieve Your Highest Potential
Be Prepared
Stay Alert
Seek Feedback
Standardized Reading Tests
Read to Comprehend
Interact
Anticipate
Relax
Read to Learn
Recall
Understand Major Question Types
Main Idea Questions
Detail Questions
Implied Meaning Questions
Purpose Questions
Vocabulary Questions
Hints for Taking Multiple-Choice and True-False Tests
Read All Options
Predict the Correct Answer
Avoid Answers with "100 Percent" Words
Consider Answers with Qualifying Words
Do Not Overanalyze
True Statements Must Be True Without Exception
If Two Options Are Synonymous, Eliminate Both
Figure Out the Difference Between Similar Options
Use Logical Reasoning If Two Answers Are Correct
Look Suspiciously at Directly Quoted Pompous Phrases
Simplify Double Negatives by Canceling Out Both
Certain Responses Are Neither True Nor False
Validate True Responses
Recognize Flaws in Test Making
Hints for Taking Essay Exams
Reword the Statement or Question
Answer the Question
Organize Your Answer
Use a Formal Writing Style
Be Aware of Appearance
Predict and Practice
Notice Key Words
Write to Earn Points
Read an "A" Paper for Feedback
Summary Points
Vocabulary Lesson: Call Out and Remember to Send
Everyday Reading Skills: Using Mnemonics
8. Efficient Reading
What Is Your Reading Rate?
What Is an Average Reading Rate?
How Can You Increase Your Reading Speed?
Be Aggressive-Attack!
Concentrate
Stop Regressions
Avoid Vocalizations
Expand Fixations
Use a Pen as a Pacer
Preview Before Reading
Set a Time Goal for an Assignment
Be Flexible
Practice
Summary Points
Timed Reading 1: Humanities
Censorship
from Understanding Music, Fourth Edition, by Jeremy Yudkin
"The question of censorship is still very much alive in the twenty-first century, particularly in reference to popular music."
Timed Reading 2: Sociology
Love of a Lifetime?
from Sociology in a Changing World, Sixth Edition, by William Kornblum
"The divorce rate is so high, not because people make foolish choices, but because they are drawn together for reasons that matter less as times goes on."
Timed Reading 3: Essay
When Life Imitates Video
from U.S. News and World Reports, May 3, 1999, by Jon Leo
"Hurting and maiming others is the central fun activity in video games played so addictively by the young."
Everyday Reading Skills: Managing Workplace Reading
9. Analytical Reasoning
Identify Analytical Thinking
An Unsuccessful Student
A Successful Student
Engage in Problem Solving
Analytical Reasoning in Textbooks
Summary Points
Selection 1: Science
DNA and Crime Scene Investigations
from Biology, Fifth Edition, by Neil Campbell, Jane Reece, Martha Taylor, and Eric Simon
"Since its introduction, DNA fingerprinting has become a standard law enforcement tool and has provided crucial evidence (of both innocence and guilt) in many famous cases including the O.J. Simpson murder trial and the impeachment of President Bill Clinton."
Selection 2: Political Science
Roles of the News Media in Democracy
from The Struggle for Democracy, Seventh Edition, by Edward Greenberg and Benjamin Page
"In scrutinizing the character and personality of candidates, do the media go overboard in digging up dirt and reporting negative material even when it is very minor?
Selection 3: Criminal Justice
Girls on the Run
from Juvenile Delinquency, Eighth Edition, by Larry Siegel, Brandon Welsh, and Joseph Senna
"Over half of teenagers who run away from home are girls."
Vocabulary Lesson: Turn and Throw
Everyday Reading Skills: Reading Direct Mail Advertisements
Reading Casebook What Is Motivation
Motivation Inventory 1
Selection 1: Sociology
What Is Motivation?
from Psychology, Ninth Edition, by Lester Lefton and Linda Brannon
"The question of why people do what they do and why some people's motivation seems so different from those of others interested people long before the science of psychology existed."
Selection 2: Speech
Suggestions For Life
from Commencement Speech given at Mount Holyoke College, 5/27/01, by Lori-Suzan Parks
"Suggestion#16. Be bold. Envision living a life that you love."
Selection 3: Psychology
Techniques to Build Self-Motivation
from "Self Motivation (Part I)" in Psychology and You by Thomas Yarnell
"Motivational research shows that people who write out what they are going to do are far more successful than people who only tell themselves they will do something."
Motivation Inventory 2
10. Inference
What Is an Inference?
Inference from Cartoons
Recognizing Suggested Meaning
Connecting with Prior Knowledge
Recognizing Slanted Language
Drawing Conclusions
Summary Points
Selection 1: Criminal Justice
Bring Back Flogging
from Boston Globe, 2/20/97, by Jeff Jacoby
"If young punks were horsewhipped in public after their first conviction, fewer of them would harden into lifelong felons."
Selection 2: Literature
The Day Language Came Into My Life
from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when itssmed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen"?
Selection 3: Literature
Miss Brill
from: The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
"Oh, how fascinating it was! How she enjoyed it! How she loved sitting here, watching it all! It was like a play."
Vocabulary Lesson: Come Together, Hold Together, and Shut
Everyday Reading Skills: Reading News
11. Critical Reading
What Do Critical Readers Do?
Recognize the Author's Purpose or Intent
Recognize the Author's Point of View or Bias
Recognize the Author's Tone
Distinguish Fact from Opinion
Recognize Valid and Invalid Support for Arguments
Summary Points
Selection 1: Literature
The Way to Rainy Mountain (excerpt)
from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
"A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Moutain."
Selection 2: Science
Hybrid Cars
from Principles of Environmental Science by William Cunningham and Mary Ann Cunningham
"Would you buy a vehicle with a hybrid engine system? Would you sacrifice a little power, speed, and acceleration for a quiet, clean, efficient, environmentally friendly means of transportation?
Selection 3: Sociology
Remarkable Teachers
from Sociology in a Changing World, Sixth Edition, by William Kornblum
"...they found an exception that demonstrated the powerful effects an exceptional teacher can have on students."
Vocabulary Lesson: Bend, Born, and Body
Everyday Reading Skills: Evaluating Internet Information
12. Independent Textbook Assignment
Apply What You Have Learned
Independent Assignment: Communications
Relationships
from Communicate!, Eleventh Edition, by Rudolf Verderber and Kathleen Verderber
"Thanks to technological innovation, today people are introduced to others they have never seen through electronic newsgroups, chat rooms, and Internet dating services."
Appendix 1 Pronunciation Review
Appendix 2 Spelling Confusing Words
Appendix 3 Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Appendix 4 ESL: Making Sense of Figurative Language and Idioms
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index
Progress Record for Reading Selections
1. Student Success
Think Success
Set Goals
Create a Positive Attitude
Seek Excellence
Reading 1: Making Choices for Success
from Live Your Dream by Les Brown
"Ask yourself if you are leaving a trail that others may want to follow."
Plan for Success
Reading 2: Making the Most of Priorities
from How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein
"People at the top and people at the bottom both know about To Do Lists, but one difference between them is that the people at the top use a To Do List every single day...."
Plan Your Week
Study the Syllabus
Use a Calendar to Decode a Syllabus
Act Successful
College Professor "Takes" American History
Attend Class
Be on Time for Class
Be Aware of Essential Class Sessions
Be Equipped for Success
Mark Your Text
Communicate with Your Instructor
Review Your Lecture Notes
Network with Other Students
Collaborate to Divide Work
Look at an "A" Paper
Use Technology to Communicate
Consider a Tape Recorder
Pass the First Test
Watch Videos or DVDs
Predict Exam Questions
Reading 3: Life Law #5: Life Rewards Action
from Life Strategies by Phillip C. McGraw
"People don't care about your intentions. They care about what you do."
Summary Points
Everyday Reading Skills: Searching the Internet
2. Stages of Reading
What Is the Reading Process?
Stages of Reading
Stage One: Previewing
Stage Two: Integrating Knowledge
Stage Three: Recalling
Assess Your Progress as a Learner
Levels of Reading Comprehension
Summary Points
Selection 1: Psychology
"Loneliness"
from Psychology Applied to Modern Life, Seventh Edition by Wayne Weiten and Margaret Lloyd
"Telephone hotlines for troubled people report that complaints of loneliness dominate their calls."
Selection 2: Essay
"Medical Care for Prisoners"
from Morality Play by Jessica Pierce
"You commit a serious crime, and you are likely to get most of the medical care you need all paid for by taxpayers."
Selection 3: Business
"Contract-Free Calling"
from The New York Times, 8/11/05, by Mark Walsh
"Providing a simpler alternative to complex and confusing cellular plans is a major selling point."
Vocabulary Lesson: Not , Not, and Not
Everyday Reading Skills: Reading News and Feature Stories in the Newspaper
3. Vocabulary
Learning New Words
Remembering New Words
Use Association
Use Concept Cards
Practice Your New Words
Unlocking the Meaning of New Words
Use Context Clues
Use Knowledge of Word Parts
Use the Glossary and the Dictionary
Types of Context Clues
Definition
Elaborating Details
Elaborating Examples
Comparison
Contrast
Multiple Meanings of a Word
Word Parts
Roots
Prefixes
Suffixes
The Dictionary
Guide Words
Pronunciation
Spelling
Word Meaning
Parts of Speech
Word History
Word Origins
Etymology
Textbook Glossary
Thesaurus
Analogies
Easily Confused Words
Enriching your Vocabulary
Summary Points
Vocabulary Lesson: For or Against?
Everyday Reading Skills: Joining a Mailing List or a Newsgroup
4. Main Idea
What Is a Main Idea?
Recognize General and Specific Words
Recognize General and Specific Phrases
Recognize the General Topic for Sentences
Recognize General and Supporting Sentences
Differentiate Topic, Main Idea, and Supporting Details
Differentiate Distractors in Main Idea Test Items
Questioning for the Main Idea
1. Establish the Topic
2. Identify the Key Supporting Terms
3. Focus on the Message of the Topic
Stated Main Ideas
Unstated Main Ideas
Getting the Main Idea of Longer Selections
Summary Points
Selection 1: Psychology
"Agoraphobia"
from Abnormal Psychology, Fourth Edition, by Johanna Schneller
"My heart was really pounding now, and I felt short of breath, as if wheels were rolling across my chest."
Selection 2: Literature
"All Quiet on the Western Front" (excerpt)
from: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
"I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently, slay one another."
Selection 3: History
"Potato Politics"
from A Brief History of Western Civilization, Third Edition, by Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, and Patricia O'Brien
"Proverbs warned peasants against putting all their eggs in one basket, but no folk wisdom prepared the Irish for the potato disaster that struck them."
Vocabulary Lesson: Before and After
Everyday Reading Skills: Selecting a Book
5. Supporting Details and Organizational Patterns
What Is a Detail?
Recognize Levels of Importance
Distinguish Major and Minor Details
Follow Detailed Directions
Patterns of Organization
Simple Listing
Classification
Definitions with Examples
Description
Time Order, Sequence, or Narration
Comparison and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Summary Points
Selection 1: Psychology
"Drug Addiction"
from Psychology, Ninth Edition, by Lester Lefton and Linda Brannon
"Avoiding drugs is only one step in the recovery process. It is also important to break the learned associations between drug use and the pleasurable emotional states associated with it."
Selection 2: Criminal Justice
"Juvenile Boot Camps"
from Juvenile Delinquency, Eighth Edition, by Larry Siegel, Brandon Welsh, and Joseph Senna
"Some juvenile corrections agencies feature shock incarceration programs, with high-intensity military discipline and physical training for short periods."
Selection 3: History
"The New Mass Culture"
from Out of Many, Fourth Edition, by John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan Armitrage
"A thriving advertising industry both reflected and encouraged the growing importance of consumer goods in American life."
Vocabulary Lesson: One Too Many
Everyday Reading Skills: Selecting Magazines
ReadingCasebook: What Is Beauty?
Beauty Inventory 1
Selection 1: Letter of Opinion
All That Glitters Is Gold
from The New York Times, 5/4/05, by Maureen Dowd
"Canadian researchers have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty children than they do ugly ones."
Selection 2: Essay
Extreme Makeover
from Morality Play by Jessica Pierce
"The popularity of Extreme Makeover may reflect a growing interest in, and acceptance of, plastic surgery as a way to alter one's physical appearance."
Selection 3: Business
Everyday Women
from The New York Times, 8/17/05, by Stuart Elliott
"Madison Avenue is increasingly interested in using everyday women in advertising instead of just waifish supermodels.
Beauty Inventory 2
6. Textbook Learning
Expect Knowledge to Exist
Annotating
When to Annotate
How to Annotate
Notetaking
When to Take Notes
How to Take Notes
Summarizing
When to Summarize
How to Summarize
Outlining
When to Outline
How to Outline
Mapping
When to Map
How to Map
Take Organized Lecture Notes
Summary Points
Selection 1: Health
Emergency Medical Technicians
from Exploring Health Care Careers, Second Edition, by Carole Bolster
"EMT work can be physically demanding. EMTs often work outside, in any type of weather and most of their time on a run is spent standing, kneeling, bending, and lifting."
Selection 2: Business
Federal Express
from Macroeconomics for Today, Third Edition, by Irvin Tucker
"FedEx is the world largest express transportation company with 3.2 million packages sorted and routed on an average night."
Selection 3: Communication
Gender Conflict and Style
from Understand Human Communication, Ninth Edition, by Ronald Adler and George Rodman
"Even in childhood, males are more likely to be overtly aggressive, demanding, and competitive, whereas females are move cooperative, or at least less directly aggressive."
Vocabulary Lesson: See, Hear, and Voice Your Concerns
Everyday Reading Skills: Reading Reference Materials
7. Test-Taking Strategies
Achieve Your Highest Potential
Be Prepared
Stay Alert
Seek Feedback
Standardized Reading Tests
Read to Comprehend
Interact
Anticipate
Relax
Read to Learn
Recall
Understand Major Question Types
Main Idea Questions
Detail Questions
Implied Meaning Questions
Purpose Questions
Vocabulary Questions
Hints for Taking Multiple-Choice and True-False Tests
Read All Options
Predict the Correct Answer
Avoid Answers with "100 Percent" Words
Consider Answers with Qualifying Words
Do Not Overanalyze
True Statements Must Be True Without Exception
If Two Options Are Synonymous, Eliminate Both
Figure Out the Difference Between Similar Options
Use Logical Reasoning If Two Answers Are Correct
Look Suspiciously at Directly Quoted Pompous Phrases
Simplify Double Negatives by Canceling Out Both
Certain Responses Are Neither True Nor False
Validate True Responses
Recognize Flaws in Test Making
Hints for Taking Essay Exams
Reword the Statement or Question
Answer the Question
Organize Your Answer
Use a Formal Writing Style
Be Aware of Appearance
Predict and Practice
Notice Key Words
Write to Earn Points
Read an "A" Paper for Feedback
Summary Points
Vocabulary Lesson: Call Out and Remember to Send
Everyday Reading Skills: Using Mnemonics
8. Efficient Reading
What Is Your Reading Rate?
What Is an Average Reading Rate?
How Can You Increase Your Reading Speed?
Be Aggressive-Attack!
Concentrate
Stop Regressions
Avoid Vocalizations
Expand Fixations
Use a Pen as a Pacer
Preview Before Reading
Set a Time Goal for an Assignment
Be Flexible
Practice
Summary Points
Timed Reading 1: Humanities
Censorship
from Understanding Music, Fourth Edition, by Jeremy Yudkin
"The question of censorship is still very much alive in the twenty-first century, particularly in reference to popular music."
Timed Reading 2: Sociology
Love of a Lifetime?
from Sociology in a Changing World, Sixth Edition, by William Kornblum
"The divorce rate is so high, not because people make foolish choices, but because they are drawn together for reasons that matter less as times goes on."
Timed Reading 3: Essay
When Life Imitates Video
from U.S. News and World Reports, May 3, 1999, by Jon Leo
"Hurting and maiming others is the central fun activity in video games played so addictively by the young."
Everyday Reading Skills: Managing Workplace Reading
9. Analytical Reasoning
Identify Analytical Thinking
An Unsuccessful Student
A Successful Student
Engage in Problem Solving
Analytical Reasoning in Textbooks
Summary Points
Selection 1: Science
DNA and Crime Scene Investigations
from Biology, Fifth Edition, by Neil Campbell, Jane Reece, Martha Taylor, and Eric Simon
"Since its introduction, DNA fingerprinting has become a standard law enforcement tool and has provided crucial evidence (of both innocence and guilt) in many famous cases including the O.J. Simpson murder trial and the impeachment of President Bill Clinton."
Selection 2: Political Science
Roles of the News Media in Democracy
from The Struggle for Democracy, Seventh Edition, by Edward Greenberg and Benjamin Page
"In scrutinizing the character and personality of candidates, do the media go overboard in digging up dirt and reporting negative material even when it is very minor?
Selection 3: Criminal Justice
Girls on the Run
from Juvenile Delinquency, Eighth Edition, by Larry Siegel, Brandon Welsh, and Joseph Senna
"Over half of teenagers who run away from home are girls."
Vocabulary Lesson: Turn and Throw
Everyday Reading Skills: Reading Direct Mail Advertisements
Reading Casebook What Is Motivation
Motivation Inventory 1
Selection 1: Sociology
What Is Motivation?
from Psychology, Ninth Edition, by Lester Lefton and Linda Brannon
"The question of why people do what they do and why some people's motivation seems so different from those of others interested people long before the science of psychology existed."
Selection 2: Speech
Suggestions For Life
from Commencement Speech given at Mount Holyoke College, 5/27/01, by Lori-Suzan Parks
"Suggestion#16. Be bold. Envision living a life that you love."
Selection 3: Psychology
Techniques to Build Self-Motivation
from "Self Motivation (Part I)" in Psychology and You by Thomas Yarnell
"Motivational research shows that people who write out what they are going to do are far more successful than people who only tell themselves they will do something."
Motivation Inventory 2
10. Inference
What Is an Inference?
Inference from Cartoons
Recognizing Suggested Meaning
Connecting with Prior Knowledge
Recognizing Slanted Language
Drawing Conclusions
Summary Points
Selection 1: Criminal Justice
Bring Back Flogging
from Boston Globe, 2/20/97, by Jeff Jacoby
"If young punks were horsewhipped in public after their first conviction, fewer of them would harden into lifelong felons."
Selection 2: Literature
The Day Language Came Into My Life
from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when itssmed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen"?
Selection 3: Literature
Miss Brill
from: The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
"Oh, how fascinating it was! How she enjoyed it! How she loved sitting here, watching it all! It was like a play."
Vocabulary Lesson: Come Together, Hold Together, and Shut
Everyday Reading Skills: Reading News
11. Critical Reading
What Do Critical Readers Do?
Recognize the Author's Purpose or Intent
Recognize the Author's Point of View or Bias
Recognize the Author's Tone
Distinguish Fact from Opinion
Recognize Valid and Invalid Support for Arguments
Summary Points
Selection 1: Literature
The Way to Rainy Mountain (excerpt)
from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
"A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Moutain."
Selection 2: Science
Hybrid Cars
from Principles of Environmental Science by William Cunningham and Mary Ann Cunningham
"Would you buy a vehicle with a hybrid engine system? Would you sacrifice a little power, speed, and acceleration for a quiet, clean, efficient, environmentally friendly means of transportation?
Selection 3: Sociology
Remarkable Teachers
from Sociology in a Changing World, Sixth Edition, by William Kornblum
"...they found an exception that demonstrated the powerful effects an exceptional teacher can have on students."
Vocabulary Lesson: Bend, Born, and Body
Everyday Reading Skills: Evaluating Internet Information
12. Independent Textbook Assignment
Apply What You Have Learned
Independent Assignment: Communications
Relationships
from Communicate!, Eleventh Edition, by Rudolf Verderber and Kathleen Verderber
"Thanks to technological innovation, today people are introduced to others they have never seen through electronic newsgroups, chat rooms, and Internet dating services."
Appendix 1 Pronunciation Review
Appendix 2 Spelling Confusing Words
Appendix 3 Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Appendix 4 ESL: Making Sense of Figurative Language and Idioms
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index
Progress Record for Reading Selections