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    Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Readings for College Students

    Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Readings for College Students by Spears, Deanne;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 5
    • Publisher McGraw-Hill
    • Date of Publication 1 August 2003

    • ISBN 9780072830705
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages544 pages
    • Size 228x185x22 mm
    • Weight 789 g
    • Language English
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    Popular source selections that challenge and engage make Improving Reading Skills an ideal text for introductory developmental reading students.

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    Table of Contents:

    * - indicates material new to this edition

    Improving Your Vocabulary

    Four Techniques for Acquiring Words

    Using Context Clues

    * Using Print and Online Dictionaries

    * Practice Selection: Dave Barry "Tips for Women: How to Have a Relationship with a Guy"

    Critical Reading Worksheet

    Identifying the Main Idea and the Writer's Purpose

    Part 1. Getting Started: Practicing the Basics

    * Josh Sens, The Truth Is Out There - Somewhere

    * Pamlea Grim, Care in Midair

    * Lori Hope, Did I Save Lives or Engage in Racial Profiling?

    Luis J. Rodriguez, La Vida Loca ("The Crazy Life"): Two Generations of Gang Members

    Rose Del Castillo Guibault, The Conveyor-Belt Ladies

    Eddy L. Harris, Mississippi Solo

    *Andres Dubus, Digging

    Annotating, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

    Part 2. Refining the Basics

    Sheldon Campbell, Games Elephants Play

    Charles Finney, The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator

    Geoffrey Cowley, The Language Explosion

    Richard Wolkomir, Making Up for Lost Time: The Rewards of Reading at Last

    * Paco Underhill, Shop Like a Man

    * Martha Fay, Sedated by Stuff

    * Lawrence Shames, The Hunger for More

    Making Inferences

    Part 3. Tackling More Challenging Prose

    * Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: Behind the Counter

    * Val Plumwood, Being Prey: Surviving A Crocodile Attack

    Elliot West, Wagon Train Children

    Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

    * Anwar Accawi, The Telephone

    Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, New Jersey v. T.L.O.: The School Search Cases

    David Ferrell, Badwater: The Ultra Marathon

    Persuasive Writing and Evaluating Evidence

    Part 4. Reading About Issues

    * Bill McKibben, The Environmental Issue from Hell

    * Jay Weiner, Sports Centered

    * Maggie Gallagher, Fatherless Boys Grow Up into Dangerous Men

    * Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen, Lost, Then Found: Helping People Off the Streets

    * Nicholas Thompson, Hero Inflation

    * Rick Weiss, A Uniquely Human Debate

    Patterns of Development and Transitions

    Part5. Mastering Difficult Prose

    * Scott Anderson, In Country

    * Jon Katz, What Hath Goth Wrought?

    Arthur Zich, Japanese Americans: Home at Last

    Jared Diamond, Easter's End

    * Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

    Index of Authors and Readings

    Index of Vocabulary Preview Words

    Reading Comprehension Chart

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