Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, teaches the essential reading and study skills required for success in college .
The cornerstone of the Wiener/Bazerman System, Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, retains the features that have made it a bestseller for more than twenty-five years: flexible format, high-interest readings, clear explanations, and a multitude of practice exercises. The step-by-step approach encourages students to move with confidence from simple to more complex skills. An anthology of readings helps students apply newly learned skills in selections drawn from books, magazines, and newspapers and including essays, articles, textbook pages, journals, fiction, photographs, illustrations, cartoons, advertisements, and Web sites—in short, the wide range of reading opportunities available to today’s readers at home or on the job.
Preface
HANDBOOK
Introduction
Unit One: Getting Started
1. The Reading Process: An Overview
1a. What to Do Before You Read
Exercises
1b. What to Do While You Read
Exercises
1c. What to Do After You Read
Exercises
2. Building a Strong Vocabulary
2a. How to Find Out What Words Mean
2b. How to Remember New Words
2c. Context Clues to Word Meanings
Exercises
2d. Word Part Clues to Meaning
2d(1) Important Prefixes
2d(2) Important Roots
2d(3) Important Suffixes
Exercises
2e. Denotation and Connotation
Exercises
2f. Shades of Meaning
Exercises
Self-Test
Unit One Review Test
Unit Two: Comprehension
3. Reading Aids
3a. Prereading
3a(1). Making a List
3a(2). Drawing a Word or Concept Map
3a(3). Doing Freewriting
3a(4). Raising Questions
Exercises
3b. Skimming
Exercises
3c. Previewing a Selection
Exercise
3d. Previewing the Parts of a Book
Exercises
Self-Test
4. Visual Aids
4a. Photographs
4b. Diagrams
4c. Word Charts
4d. Statistical Tables
4e. Graphs
4f. Internet Web Sites
Exercises
Self-Test
5. Reading for the Main Idea
5a. Key Ideas in Sentences
Exercises
5b. Topics and Main Ideas in Paragraphs
Exercises
5b(1). Stated Main Ideas
Exercises
5b(2). Implied Main Ideas
Exercises
Self-Test
6. Reading for Information
6a. Fact-Finding
Exercises
6b. Major Details, Minor Details
Exercises
Self-Test
7. Recognizing Paragraph Patterns
7a. Ordering of Ideas
7a(1). Time Order (Chronology)
7a(2). Place Order
7a(3). Order of Importance
Exercises
7b. Listing of Details
Exercises
7c. Classification
Exercises
7d. Comparison and Contrast
Exercises
7e. Cause and Effect
Exercises
Self-Test
Unit Two Review Test
Unit Three: Interpretation and Evaluation
8. Making Inferences
Exercises
Self-Test
9. Understanding Figurative Language
Exercises
Self-Test
10. Drawing Conclusions and Predicting Outcomes
Exercises
Self-Test
11. Generalizing
Exercises
Self-Test
12. Evaluating Ideas
12a. Fact and Opinion
Exercises
12b. Evidence
Exercises
12c. The Writer's Technique
12c(1). Style
12c(2). Tone
12c(3). Mood
12c(4). Purpose
12c(5). Point of View
Exercises
12d. Techniques That Twist the Truth
Exercises
Self-Test
Unit Three Review Test
Unit Four The Basic Study Skills
13. Writing for Reading
13a. Underlining and Highlighting
Exercises
13b. Taking Notes
Exercises
13c. Outlining
Exercise
13d. Summarizing Paragraphs
Exercise
13e. Summarizing Long Passages
Exercise
13f. Your Opinion: Keeping a Journal
Exercise
Self-Test
14. Understanding Exam Questions
14a. Preparing for Examinations
Exercise
14b. Short-Answer Questions
Exercises
14c. Essay Questions
Exercise
Self-Test
Unit Four Review Test
Appendix: Using a Dictionary
Ap-a. The Guidewords
Ap-b. The Main Entry
Ap-c. The Pronunciation Key
Ap-d. The Parts of Speech
Ap-e. Special Forms and Special Spellings
Ap-f. The Meanings of the Word
Ap-g. The History of the Word
Ap-h. Word Usage
READING SELECTIONS
Introduction
1. Six Keys to Quicker Learning Patricia Skalka
2. Foul Shots rogelio R. Gomez
3. How I'll Become an American Milos Vamos
4. How to Write a Business Letter malcolm Forbes
5. Bilingual Education Loan Littlefield Cook and Greg Cook
6. My Husband's Nine Wives Elizabeth Joseph
7. Chupa Chups: Sweetening the World, One Country at a Time William M. Pride and O.C. Ferrel
8. The Struggle to Be an All American Girl Elizabeth Wong
9. The Infant Grows Attached Douglas A. Bernstein, Louis A. Penner, Alison Clarke-Stewart, and Edward J. Roy
10. Underground Dads wil Haygood
11. In My Father's House David Masello
12. When Real Food Isn's an Option Donald G. McNeill Jr.
13. The Chaser John Collier
14. Looking Forward, Looking Back Robert DeBlois
15. An Introduction to SociologyRichard T. Shaefer and Robert P. Lamm
16. Balancing the Babies and the Books alimah Abdullah
17. Street Gangs steven A. Barkan and George Bryjak
18. To Make a DNA Print Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa
19. Apostles of the Faith That Books Matter Vivian Gornick
20. Minority Student Richard Rodriguez
CASEBOOK
Eating to Live, Living to Eat
Obese America scott Stantis
Call the Ford Agency Henry Bliss
How to Lose Weight and Whether You Should carole Wade and Carol Tavris
Three Advertisements: Cookies & M&Ms, Tropicana Healthy Heart, Got Milk?
Ballparks: Big Leagues, Bitty Burgers Julie Scelfo
My Big Fat American Child Atlantic Monthly
Anorexia NervosaFamilydoctor.org
Don't Blame the EaterDavid Zinczenco
Self-Test Answer Key
Test Score Summary
Acknowledgments
Author Index
Subject Index
