Improving Reading Skills

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Contents
PART ONE Getting Started: Practicing the Basics
	1 PAMELA GRIM Care in Midair
	2 PETE JORDAN Head Dishwasher?
	3 JOE ABBOTT To Kill a Hawk
	4 ROSE GUILBAULT School Days
	5 CORNELIA BAILEY Still Gullah: A Sea Island Sister Struggles to Preserve the Old Ways
	6 JUDITH LEWIS Walk on the Wilshire Side
	7 CHARLES FINNEY The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator
PART TWO Refining the Basics
	Annotating, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
		Annotating
		Paraphrasing
		Summarizing
	9 CHRIS ROSE Hell and Back
	8 MARC IAN BARASCH The Bystander’s Dilemma: Why Do We Walk on By?
	10 FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ AND JEFFREY PERKINS The Two Sides of Fear
	11 GEOFFREY COWLEY The Language Explosion
	12 VIRGINIA MORELL Minds of Their Own
	13 RICHARD WOLKOMIR Making Up for Lost Time: The Rewards of Reading at Last
PART THREE Tackling More Challenging Prose
	Making Inferences
	14 ERIC SCHLOSSER Fast Food Nation: Behind the Counter
	15 STUDS TERKEL Somebody Built the Pyramids
	16 VAL PLUMWOOD Being Prey: Surviving a Crocodile Attack
	17 TIM GUEST Linden Lab’s Second Life: Dreamers of the Dream
	18 IAN FRAZIER Dearly Disconnected
	19 LAWRENCE SHAMES The Hunger for More
		Americans have always been optimists, and optimists have always liked to speculate. In Texas in the 1880s, the speculative instrument of choice was towns, and there is no tale more American than this. What people would do was buy up enormous tracts of parched and vacant land, lay out a Main Street, nail together some wooden sidewalks, and start slapping up buildings
	20 BILL BRYSON Lonely Planet
PART FOUR Mastering Reading about Complex Ideas
	Patterns of Development
		List of Facts or Details
		Examples
		Reasons—Cause and Effect
	Description of a Process
		Contrast
	Transitional Elements
	Transitions That Indicate Additional Information Is Coming
		Transitions That Introduce Examples or Illustrations
		Transitions That Show Cause-Effect Connections
		Transitions That Show Chronological Order or Time Progression
		Transitions That Show Contrast
	Some Final Considerations
	21 DEBRA J. DICKERSON Raising Cain
		someone, a fate too many women accept as given. When you grow up a poor black girl in a huge family you spend your life caring for the whole world. Children, I knew, meant that I’d be a human mop and short-order cook forever
	22 NELSON MANDELA Long Walk to Freedom
	23 LYNNE DUKE The Picture of Conformity
	24 DAVID FERRELL Badwater: The Ultra-Marathon
	25 CARLIN FLORA Hello, My Name Is Unique
		Increasingly, children are also named for prized possessions. In 2000, birth certificates revealed that there were 298 Armanis, 269 Chanels, 49 Canons, 6 Timberlands, 5 Jaguars and 353 girls named Lexus in the U.S.
	26 JARED DIAMOND Easter’s End
PART FIVE Reading about Issues
	Persuasive Writing and Opinion Pieces
	The Principles of Persuasive Writing
	The Aims of Persuasive Writing
	How to Read Persuasive Writing
	Types of Claims
	Kinds of Evidence
	The Refutation
	The Structure of an Argument
	Bias
	PRACTICE ELIZABETH ROYTE EDITORIAL A Fountain on Every Corner
	27 CHARLES M. BLOW Farewell, Fair Weather
	28 BILL MCKIBBEN The Environmental Issue from Hell
	29 COURTNEY E. MARTIN Is the American Dream a Delusion?
	30 RUBEN NAVARRETTE Racial Profiling Is Un-American
	31 JOHN POMFRET Two Sides to the Border Fence
	Paired Editorials—The Fence along the U.S.–Mexican Border
	32 LUIS ALBERTO URREA $1.2 Billion Fence Adds Little or No Security
	33 DUNCAN HUNTER Building a Wall between Worlds
	34 PETER TURNLEY The Line—Photographs from the U.S.–Mexican Border
	35 Paired Web Sites—Two Scientific Views of Global Warming
		Union of Concerned Scientists
		The Heartland Institute
PART SIX Reading Textbooks
	Four Surefire Ways to Get Low Grades
	Four Suggestions for Making the Most of Your Study Time
	Applying the SQ3R Study Method to Reading Textbooks
	36 JOSEPH LOSCO AND RALPH BAKER Measuring Public Opinion
	37 JOSEPH R. DOMINICK, FRITZ MESSERE, AND BARRY L. SHERMAN The Ratings Process
	38 BENJAMIN B. LAHEY Sleep and Dreams: Conscious while Asleep
	39 CONRAD PHILLIP KOTTAK Race
	40 SYLVIA S. MADER Seed Plants, Gymnosperms, and Angiosperms
Index
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