Reading and all that jazz : tuning up your reading, thinking, and study skills /
Peter Mather, Rita McCarthy.
- Second edition
- xxiv, 514 pages 1 (various pagings) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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
Reading (Higher education)--United States. English language--Rhetoric. Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. Study skills--United States.