Reading and all that jazz : tuning up your reading, thinking, and study skills / Peter Mather, Rita McCarthy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Getting A Handle on College
Introduction: Your First Week In Class
Assignment Sheets
Are You Ready for College?
This Is the Week That Was
Selection: excerpt from My American Journey by Colin Powell
Selection: Ode to the Present by Pablo Neruda
Vocabulary: Introduction
Selection: Crickets by Robert Olen Butler

Chapter 1: How We Learn - Finding Out About Ourselves
Auditory, Visual, or Kinesthetic - What is Your Learning Style?
Vocabulary: Words in Context
Day versus Night People
Selection: The Two Most Dangerous Hours of Your Day by Lowell Ponte
Left-Brain and Right-Brain Orientation - Which One Are You?
Selection: What Is Intelligence, Anyway? by Isaac Asimov
Stress Inventory: How Much Stress is There in Your Life?
Selection: An Easy Choice by Rick Reilly
Study Schedules
SQ3R - A Classic Way to Study
**Selection: POWER Learning (study skills textbook) by Robert S. Feldman
Vocabulary: Homonyms and Other Confusing Words

Part 2: Discovering Meaning Through Structure
Chapter 2: Topics, Main Ideas, and Details
Using Textbook Material
**Description of Topics and Main Ideas
Distinguishing Between General and Specific
Locating Topics and Main Ideas
Paragraph Diagrams
Paraphrasing
Implied Main Ideas
**Aunt Caroline
**Urban Legends
Selection: What Women Don't Understand About Guys by Dave Barry
Selection: This is 911...Please Hold

Chapter 3: Determining the Author's Purpose
To Entertain
Selection: The Shepherd's Daughter by William Saroyan
To Inform
Selection: From a Melted Candy Bar to Microwaves by Ira Flatow
To Persuade
Selection: Students Who Push Burgers by Wlater Minot
Writing Summaries
**Selection: Letter to Olivia by Mel Allen
Vocabulary: Word Structure and Unit 1

Chapter 4: Transitions and Patterns of Organization
Transition Word List
Description of Transition Words and Patterns of Organization
Classification Pattern
Cause and Effect Pattern
Compare/Contrast Pattern
Steps in a Process Pattern
Examples Pattern
Definition Pattern
Chronological Order Pattern
**Listing Pattern
Additional Transition Words
Selection: Police Power in Japan (from sociology textbook) by Robert T. Shaefer and Robert P. Lamm
**Selection: Out of Control by William Nack and Lester Munson

Part 3: Interpreting What We Read
Chapter 5: Inferences
Introduction and exercises
Selection: Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Selection: Inside the Vicious Heart (from history textbook)
**Selection: Thomas Broderick by Tom Brokaw
Chapter 5 Test: "Inside the Vicious Heart"
Vocabulary: Unit 2

Chapter 6: Figurative Language
Figures of Speech - similes, metaphors, and personification
**Selection: Ann Landers
The Use of Symbols
Selection: Guernica (Art History textbook) by Rita Gilbert
Selection: The Yellow Ribbon by Pete Hamill
Literary Allusions
Imagery
**Selection: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Selection: Blizzard Under Blue Sky by Pam Houston

Chapter 7: Tone
Inferring tone
Selection: The Fixed by Annie Dillard
Irony
Selection: A Letter to God by Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes
Satire
Selection: The Animal School by Dr. George H. Reavis
**Selection: Hurts Rent-A-Gun by Art Buchwald
Vocabulary: Unit 3

Part 4: Recognizing Modes of Writing
Chapter 8: Four Primary Modes
An Introduction to Modes of Writing (Rhetorical Modes)
Narrative
Selection: "Thank You Ma'm" by Langston Hughes
Descriptive
Selection: A Son's Memoir by John Daniel
**Selection: On Aging by Maya Angelou
Expository
Selection: Impulse Control: The Marshmallow Test, an excerpt from Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Persuasion Argumentation
Selection: TV by Mary Pipher
Vocabulary: Unit 4

Chapter 9: Modes of Organization
Cause and Effect
Selection: The Chaser by John Collier
Categories
Selection: My Possessions Myself by Russell W. Belk
Chronological Order and Summaries of Longer Articles
Order and Summaries of Longer Articles
Selection: Charley's Secret by Shannon Moon Leonetti

Part 5: Reading Critically
Chapter 10: Fact and Opinion
Learning to Read Critically
Selection: Listening: To Tell Fact from Opinion (English textbook) by Shirley Haley-James and John Warren Stewig
Selection: Truth is More than Skin Deep (from psychology textbook)
**Selection: Superstitions Help Us Cope by Patricia Wen
Vocabulary: Unit 5

Chapter 11: Bias
Selection: The Defendant's Characteristics (from Social Psychology textbook) by David G. Myers
Selection: How Do I Fire Thee? Let Me Count the Ways by William Lutz
Techniques and exercises
**Selection: A Birthday Party by Katherine Brush
Selection: A Hanging by George Orwell
**Selection: A Speech by President George W. Bush
Vocabulary: Unit 6

Chapter 12: Propaganda Techniques
What Are They and How Are They Used?
**Selection: (Communication textbook) - Celebrity Endorsements Can Mean a Lot for Advertisers by James R. Wilson
Selection: (Psychology textbook) - Violence on Television and Film: Does the Media's Message Matter

Chapter 13: Evaluating the Evidence
Evaluating Persuasive Writing
Drawing Conclusions: Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Selection: (Biology textbook) DNA Fingerprinting by Ruth Bernstein and Stephen Bernstein
**Arguments For and Against Proposition
**Andrea Yates--The Yates Tragedy

Part 6: Becoming Ready for Content Area Classes
Chapter 14: Scanning and Skimming
Scanning exercises
Selection: Pesticides (Biology textbook) by Eli C. Minkoff and Pamela J. Baker
Skimming exercises
Selection: The Greening of Java (from anthropology textbook) by Conrad Phillip Kottak
Vocabulary: Word Parts and Review

Chapter 15: Organizing Textbook Information
Organizing Textbook Materials in Different Ways
Annotating Your Textbook
Outlining
Mapping
Time Lines
Compare-and-Contrast Chart
**Venn Diagram Selection: Jazz (from music textbook) by Roger Kamien Appendices Dictionaries **Visual Aids Test-Taking Techniques
The Multiple Choice Test
Essay Tests
Extra Assignment and Study Sheets